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Symantec announced late today a free public beta for its new Norton AntiBot software that attempts to identify malware on your system by analyzing its behavior.
The stand-alone software is based on existing (and currently available) technology from Sana Security, with a few minor add-ins from Symantec’s SONAR behavioral scanning technology that is now included in [...]

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“The State of Search Engine Safety,” a recent study by McAfee’s SiteAdvisor group, has some classic good news and bad news for Internet surfers. Using several automated techniques, the SiteAdvisor study determined that 4 percent of the query results offered by the major search engines lead to potentially dangerous Web sites, and the total for [...]

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Security researcher Robert Hansen, aka RSnake, has published details of a new attack on Google Desktop. Basically, Hansen found a man-in-the-middle attack, this time placing an attacker between Google and someone launching a desktop search query. From this position, the attacker is able to manipulate the search results and possibly take control of other [...]

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Google has continued on its acquisition blitzkrieg with news that Google has acquired Mountain View neighbor GreenBorder for an undisclosed sum.
GreenBorder launched in 2001 with “Desktop DMZ” software for Windows that prevents any viruses, trojans or spyware from being installed during any browser session. GreenBorder keeps all browsing activity system independent from Windows and free [...]

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Sophos is warning computer users about a widely-spammed out email teaser promising a trailer of the film “Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End” - and the chance of free tickets.
The email, which contains the familiar skull-and-crossbones logo of the popular film franchise, appears to have been targeted at movie-goers in Europe and North [...]

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A new variant of the Russian Trojan Gozi is circulating on the Web, this time armed with a keylogging function and the ability to scramble itself so it is difficult to detect by anti-virus software.The Trojan is believed to have been spreading since April 17. Like the original, which was discovered earlier in 2007, the [...]

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The half minute-long commercial for energy drink IRN-BRU on YouTube isn’t all that original, or really very funny. All the same, the clip “R0049_TDAU8″ garnered 113 million hits and received a five-star review, with more than 70,000 visitors giving the clip the popular video site’s highest content approval rating. (Editor’s note: the file has since [...]

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More than a month after Microsoft patched the .ANI vulnerability, the geek favorite e-tailer Tom’s Hardware has found the W32.ani Trojan lurking in one of its banner ads.
ScanSafe, a managed Web security services company, on May 8 noticed a spike in traffic blocks that had a common theme. The company found that Tomshardware.com was unknowingly [...]

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Apparently someone hacked into The Pirate bay using an exploit in their blog software and have stolen their entire user database. Thankfully the data is encrypted, but TPB are still urging users to change their credentials. From the site:

Hi, we have some sad news, but don’t be alarmed…
Some people (and yes, we know who) found [...]

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