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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:04:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Lewis Hamilton and Adrian Sutil in Blackmail Plot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lewis Hamilton and his friend from the Force India F1 racing team, Adrian Sutil, have recently made the headlines because of a blackmail plot. According to the British Telegraph, police in Germany have arrested a man who was trying to sell personal information on Adrian Sutil to a magazine. The information was kept on a computer disc, which the police found on the arrested man.

The Bavarian police stated that the man identified as "Dieter" was already known to the police department. He was ca...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Phishing Scams Available on the Web</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hackers and phishers don&#039;t rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently warned the general public about a new scheme by which scammers intended to take the users&#039; IRS fund check.

According to the FBI, users would receive an email, presumab...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Warning: The Number of Infected Websites Has Exploded!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today&#039;s hackers use extremely advanced techniques, which makes it quite difficult to block their attacks and prevent similar actions in the future. But what&#039;s worse is that more and more attacks are now relying on web-based malware which obviously affect thousands of pages and their visitors. According to a report published by ScanSafe, April came with a 35 percent increase in web-based malware, mostly due to two major attacks that took place that month.

"What we saw in April was a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hacker Takes Down Zimbabwe&#039;s Herald</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Zimbabwe newspaper website has been shutdown by hackers for three days, since this last Saturday. The Zimbabwe Herald newspaper has reported and admitted to the incident yesterday. The Herald has become unavailable after a hacker, calling himself "r4b00f", has hacked the newspaper webpage.

It appears that the hacked Zimbabwe paper is seen as a pawn of President Robert Mugabe&#039;s ruling party, ZANU-PF. As support for the widespread opinion, the newspaper has also been responsible for brin...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Avast Antivirus Updated, Download Included</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Avast Antivirus, one of the most popular antivirus names on the market, which also comes in a freeware version, just got updated, the new release including multiple [admark=1]fixes meant to correct glitches found in the previous edition. The 4.8.1195, available in both Home and Professional flavors, comes with a pretty long changelog but here are some of the most important updates included in this release:

• solved incompatibility of the avast self protection module and the System Restore fea...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US Military: A Botnet Will Surely Help Us Protect Our Nation!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Colonel Charles Williamson III wrote an interesting piece published in the Armed Forces Journal, admitting to the fact that a potential botnet designed especially to protect the United States of America computers would be extremely useful for the nation, because it would help reject attacks launched from any region of the world. As you know, botnets are usually used by spammers or hackers to infect or spread an infection over the world, as well as send tons of unsolicited email messages while re...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>McAfee and Acer Sign New Partnership</title>
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<description><![CDATA[McAfee and Acer have just announced a partnership that will provide the computing company users with a more secure computing experience. Starting with the second quarter of 2008, Acer notebooks and desktop computers will be shipped with McAfee Internet Security Suite with SiteAdvisor. The software bundle comes to furnish Acer users with a ready-to-use product.

Acer is one of the biggest manufacturers of portable and desktop computers. The company already has a very appraised line of portable ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Incredibly Cheap Gasoline via Spam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of types of email spam, most of them relying on medicines, watches or all kinds of pills. However, some new unsolicited messages appeared a few days ago and, according to Jeremy Gilliat of McAfee Avert Labs Blog, they attempt to offer a product that helps victims save money on gas. Since the gas prices have exploded in the recent period, some readers may be really attracted by such an email and this is exactly what the spammer hopes to get: to bring the readers to the attached ma...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Personal Data of Six Million Chileans Available on the Internet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Security of personal data is an issue with which all major institutions must deal. With an increasing number of phishing frauds available on the web, the users&#039; personal data are not that safe anymore. A recent incident demonstrated that the people of Chile are among the most vulnerable. According to the El Mercurio daily, a hacker has broken into Chile&#039;s government sites, took the personal data of six million people and posted them on the web.

The six million victims had their name...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Watch Out for the First Stock Exchange of Web Traffic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you think that your website isn&#039;t making enough money mainly because it has few visitors to start with, then take a look at what Robotraff.com has to offer. First of all, take into account that this website calls itself "the first stock exchange of web traffic". However, what appears to be a money-making solution is just another Russian-based website trying to make an Internet click fraud boost its accounts.

As most of us know, webmasters earn money through a number of ways, most of w...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Srizbi Accounts for Half of All Spam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As we, here at Softpedia, told you back in April, Srizbi is the world&#039;s largest botnet ever. Following its evolution, which is also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, Marshal, one of the global leaders in Email and Internet Content Security, just announced that Srizbi accounts for half of the world&#039;s spam. A press release dated May 8 states that this botnet has had a considerable growth over the last two months.

Since April, Srizbi has been reported by SecureWork to be the most dangero...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>After Dealing with Piracy Complaints, Torrent Tracker Returns from the Dead</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Icelandic copyright organizations that sued the country&#039;s largest BitTorrent tracker suffered another defeat after the court decided that there were no legal grounds in the case against the service. According to Ben Jones of TorrentFreak, the administrators of the website plan to reopen it on May 16, although the plaintiff struggled to keep it offline. Aside from the judge ruling, the BitTorrent website has also won approximately 3,200 euros after another payment of 4,000 euros received...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Security Flaw Can Easily Turn Gmail into Your Worst Nightmare</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gmail, Google&#039;s very popular email technology, which is for many users their main email service, can easily turn into your worst nightmare as a security glitch could allow an attacker to use the service as the perfect spamming bot. According to security research team INSERT, the security glitch "is related to the risk of abusing the email forwarding option in Gmail accounts." In case an attacker manages to take advantage of the flaw, he could easily send a very large number of messages, obv...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>IFPI: File Sharing Is Bad but You Can Still Use It...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recently, IFPI, an organization that fights for copyrights and struggles to stop illegal file sharing, announced that it had started a campaign supposed to help teachers, kids and parents reduce this phenomenon. At that time, the copyright organization said it would distribute numerous booklets to kids, explaining the risks of using dangerous file sharing applications. Having a look at this booklet reveals a few unexpected details which, unfortunately for the IFPI, do nothing more than to encour...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Renault F1 Competition Leaks Entrants&#039; Personal Data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most of us would expect an award wining company like Renault not to have any issues with security on their websites. But it appears some of our expectations are rather too high, as proven by an incident that occurred last week. One of the company&#039;s websites, namely the one in Great Britain, hosted a Grand Prix competition, of which it was later reported to have leaked its entrants’ personal information.

The British subsidiary of the motoring company is offering 600 pairs of tickets, in t...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bank Loses Hundreds of Thousands Consumer Records</title>
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<description><![CDATA[HSBC Bank was once again brought in trouble after having lost approximately 159,000 customer records belonging to clients based in Hong Kong. According to CyberInsecure.com, the data loss was a result of an incident occurred on April 26 due to the renovation of a Kwun Tong branch. The lost data included the name of the clients and the bank account numbers but no login information or PIN codes were hosted on the servers, the same source informs. The computers were protected by multiple security m...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tracked Immigrants List Leaked on Web</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A list concerning the immigrants who must be watched by the Hong Kong authorities has been leaked on the web due to what appears to be the mistake of an employee. According to The Earth Times, the employee who caused the data loss was recently hired at the Immigration Department in Hong Kong. However, the way the files reached the web is quite interesting.

It seems like the entire loss occurred through a file-sharing application called Foxy which allows users to download files on the Internet...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>TorrentSpy to Appeal the $110M Fine for Copyright Infringement</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Although the court ruled that TorrentSpy must pay a fine of $110 million to MPAA and some of you thought that the lawsuit was finally over, it seems like the dispute will continue because the BitTorrent website decided to appeal the decision. According to AFP, a TorrentSpy lawyer said they would appeal the court ruling, so the lawsuit will go on. The MPAA saw the ruling as a real victory and said that it should be the best example of what a copyright infringement service can get in case it doesn...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 09:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Illegal DVD Factory Found in Malaysia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fight against movie and software piracy has just recorded another win as the MPA along with the help of other organizations, including here the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft, managed to shut down an illegal DVD facility located in Kajang, Malaysia. According to a press statement signed by the MPAA, the factory had the abilities to produce no less than seven million illegal discs per year, recording revenues of no less than $22 million.

As part of the raid, three men with ag...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 07:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Pirate Bay Asked to Pay $15M for Pirated Movies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The battle between The Pirate Bay and MPAA continues with a new dispute: this time, the Motion Pictures Association of America demands damages of no less than $15.4 million due to the fact that the BitTorrent website published pirated copies of several of its movies and allowed Internet users to download them. 

According to TorrentFreak, MPAA sustains that Harry Potter, Syriana, The Pink Panther, Walk the Line and 13 episodes of Prison Break were all uploaded by The Pirate Bay and downloaded ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 06:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New SQL Injection Worm Found Loose on the Web</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not long after a mass attack JavaScript injection was reported to have infected hundreds of thousands of websites, a new SQL injection Worm was found loose on the web. According to the ISC(Internet Storm Center) website, a total of 4,000 websites have been found infected, after a quick run at a Google search. The report on the above mentioned site clearly states that is unwise to visit the websites mentioned as being infected. They are to be considered dangerous and harmful for your own computer...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wonderware SuiteLink&#039;s Denial of Reported Service Vulnerability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Security researchers at Core Security Technologies have issued a warning statement on Monday according to which they found a rare vulnerability in Wonderware subsidiary&#039;s InTouch SuiteLink application. Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, is a software manufacturer that offers solutions to business users in areas such as Production and Performance Management, Geographical SCADA and Supervisory HMI (Human-Machine Interface).

Core Security found the vulnerability in Wonderware SuiteLin...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 13:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>News Corp. Manager Admits to Have Known about Hacking Claims</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As an update to the evolution of the lawsuit between News Corp. and DISH Network Corp., we bring you news about shocking statements of a Senior Manager at News Corp. The legal process between the two companies is a result of the testimony of a computer hacker who revealed he had been hired by News Corp. to develop pirated software. The DISH Network Corp. lawyers claim that the pirated software was used to break into their client&#039;s system.

It seems that a Senior Manager at News Corp has a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 12:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Romanian Pirate Goes Behind Bars</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Although it happens in various countries in the world, a Romanian pirate thought it could never happen to him: Kiss Adalbert Daniel, 28-year-old, was found guilty of possession with the purpose of distribution of pirated materials and received a sentence of five years and six months in jail. Beside that, the pirate has to pay huge fines, namely more than 50,000 euros to Microsoft and 77,000 euros to Autodesk Inc.

What&#039;s interesting is that the Romanian, based in Arad, was investigated by...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 10:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hackers Attack Epilepsy Website, Cause Serious Seizures</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hacking attacks usually cause technical damage, meaning that attackers manage to break into the systems and steal or access certain information. Unfortunately, there are cases when such hack attacks prove to be really harming and people suffer because of them. Such an attack occurred at the Easter weekend when hackers assaulted the forum of the Epilepsy Foundation and posted links to quickly flashing images. For those of you who don&#039;t know, people who suffer of epilepsy are pretty vulnerabl...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ATI Driver Mistakenly Flagged as Hack Attack</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder officials said that three of their computers were hacked and information of about 9,000 students and 500 employees was put in danger. According to various reports, the university administrators spotted the attack only when the computers restarted themselves without any reason. After further investigation, it has been discovered that the systems contained some sort of spyware which could be used by an attacker to infiltrate into the computers and a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 08:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hacking the School&#039;s Electronic Student Records</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hacking into the schools network seems to be a rather usual behavior with students from the United States educational establishments. With an increasing number of students who are capable of breaking into their own school network, one has to wonder about the level of security of these networks. According to the Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, a New Trier Township High School student was charged with allegedly breaking into the school&#039;s electronic student records.

A rather similar incident wa...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 08:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bavarian Teenage Hackers Arrested</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of eleven hackers were arrested by the German police as part of an investigation carried out by the local authorities over an Internet forum relying on hacking techniques. According to The Local, the forum had approximately 33,000 members, most of the topics being related to hacking activities, some of them even concerning credit card details or passwords. The eleven hackers had pretty early ages as no less than seven of them were younger than 18 years old, The Local added. Along with th...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 08:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Belgium Suspecting Chinese Hackers of Cyberespionage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Belgium is the latest country attacked by Chinese hackers who attempted to break into the state&#039;s computers in order to conduct cyberespionage activities, the Belgian officials warned a few days ago according to UPI. The Justice Minister Jo Vandeurzen sustains that Chinese hackers may have sent dangerous emails containing malicious software to Belgian computers in order to steal certain information. The reason? The European Union and NATO are headquartered in Brussels, so attacking Belgian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 07:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Virus Found in Firefox 2 Plug-in</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The language pack supposed to be installed in Firefox 2 by consumers who want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnamese got compromised by a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday. What&#039;s worse is that the plugin was posted straight on the Mozilla Add-on page from where users download and install themes and extensions for Firefox. Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of a malicious code injection which could load remote content and drop...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 07:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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