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£One Point Six Million landmark settlement for adware
Monday, 06 November 2006
Zango forced to cough up for ill-gotten gains. Adware distributor Zango will give up $3m (£1.6m) in "ill-gotten gains" for deceptive downloads that displayed billions of unwanted pop-up ads in a settlement with the US FTC (Federal Trade Commission).
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Attack disables Windows XP Firewall
Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable the Windows Firewall on certain Windows XP machines.
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Quantum attacks worry computer scientists
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
“ I want to maintain the quantum computer in a good state until, magically, the answers appear. Stray cosmic rays and things like that--if they interact with this stuff, then something changes and the computer crashes. The thought is that people could do that on purpose. ”
John Lowry, principal scientist and quantum-computer researcher, BBN Technologies
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Phishing attack targets MySpace users
Monday, 30 October 2006
Scammers target social networking
Phishers have found a way to use genuine MySpace.com accounts to trick users into revealing their account information.

Web analysis firm Netcraft reported on Friday that a MySpace user was emailing potential victims inviting them to visit a fraudulent login page, where they were asked to enter their email address and password. That information was then sent to a server located in France, according to Netcraft.
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Microsoft issues IT security call to arms
Sunday, 29 October 2006
Microsoft has issued a call to arms at a gathering of European IT security professionals, despite being in the midst of an industry spat with McAfee and Symantec.
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