NewsBits for April 14, 2006
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Best Buy's 'Geek Squad' Accused of Pirating Software
A Texas software company sued Best Buy
in federal court on Tuesday, alleging that
the nation's largest consumer electronics
retailer was using unlicensed versions of
its diagnostic equipment.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191593,00.html
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Police Identify Author Of "Pretty Girl" Computer Virus
The creator of the "Pretty Girl" virus has been
identified as a 21-year-old student in Hanoi.
The quick moving virus infected over 20,000-
computers in Vietnam this week. The girl whom
authorities have refused to identify by name
has since apologized via newspapers and to
the police and called the cyber attack a
'study and research exercise trial.' However
authorities are still trying to decide if
to arrest the girl and what charges if any
she will face.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003169956
Bug Bounties Exterminate Holes
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6101/bug_bounties_exterminate_holes/
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Evidence filed in child porn case
Arrest connected to international ring
A crown prosecutor filed evidence in court
yesterday in the case of a Longueuil man
arrested in connection with an international
child pornography ring.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=eb9fddbb-546f-4081-99d4-b8f30eb25e31&k=89920
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Man could face federal child porn charges
A registered sex offender appears headed
to his fourth appearance before a federal
judge. South Williamsport police said yesterday
they will pursue federal charges against Robert
Blakeslee, 63, of Williamsport, who was arrested
Tuesday night inside a radio studio. Police said
he was downloading child pornography at the time.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1145006813139780.xml
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Working to keep the Web safe
In the past six months in Santa Rosa County,
three adults have been arrested for allegedly
soliciting undercover officers online. The
Sheriff's Office has 23 active cases where
officers have been contacted by adults
thinking they were communicating with children.
"It's a growing crime," Sheriff Wendell Hall
said. "You cannot believe what goes on in
some of those chat rooms."
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/NEWS01/604140334/1006
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Report Details DMCA Misuses
A new report from the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) takes aim at the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial
law enacted seven years ago to protect
intellectual property in the digital age.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3599026
States seek levies on digital-media downloads
http://news.com.com/2009-1022_3-6059914.html
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Beware of tax refund 'phishing' scams
It's just the news that hardworking taxpayers
want to see in their inbox: an update on their
refund from the Internal Revenue Service. But
instead of clicking on that e-mail's links,
federal officials advise you to hit the delete
key.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/13/irsphishing/index.html
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Suspected Czech phishing mule busted
Law enforcement authorities in Prague
charged a man with assisting in fraud,
after arresting him at a bank where he
allegedly attempted to pick up cash
wired to him by phishing victims.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/186
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Group protests e-mails blocked by AOL
Critics of America Online Inc.'s proposed
"pay-to-send" e-mail program were angered
earlier this week when e-mail messages
containing their www.DearAOL.com Web
page links were automatically bounced
back to senders by AOL's antispam filters.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110552,00.html
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Firefox update offers security fixes
Internet Explorer users are not the only
people patching browsers this week. Mozilla
Corp. yesterday released a new version of
its Firefox browser that adds native support
for Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X running
on Intel Corp.'s processors, and contains
a number of important security fixes for
all Firefox users.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110541,00.html
Security Updates for Firefox, Opera Browsers
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6102/security_updates_firefox_opera_browsers/
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Kaspersky releases mobile antivirus software beta
Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version
of mobile antivirus software for smart phones
using the Symbian OS, it announced Thursday.
The product, called Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Mobile 2.0, can stop suspicious programs
before they infect the phone and scan
devices for malicious software,
the company said.
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110553,00.html
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125404,00.asp
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Symantec set to launch new storage, security products
Jeremy Burton, who joined Symantec last
year via the blockbuster merger with Veritas,
has his hands full. As senior vice president
of enterprise security and data management,
he oversees about $2 billion worth of business.
Burton spoke recently with Network World about
how the merger is going and where Symantec is
headed with its messaging management strategy.
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110544,00.html
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France launches electronic passports
France has begun issuing electronic passports
that will allow its citizens to travel to
the United States without a visa, according
to Amsterdam-based Axalto. The smart-card
vendor is providing Frances printing office --
the Imprimerie Nationale -- with approximately
2 million electronic covers for the new
passports this year (download PDF).
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110559,00.html
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Heightening defenses against a costly invisible predator
There's a shift that's taken place on the Internet.
More and more people are concerned about who's
lurking behind their computer screen. And for
good reason. In North Carolina alone, there
were about 15,500 fraud and identity theft
complaints last year. The amount paid by
North Carolina consumers totaled almost
$11.5 million.
http://washington.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2006/04/17/focus6.html
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Implementing Encryption Using .NET Framework
With Visual Basic 6, you do all your operations
on a file handle (#1 in this case), and it's up
to you to manage this file handle. There isn't
a single object that encapsulates the file
operations; instead, there are a number
of keywords (Open, Close, Input, and so on).
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6099/implementing_encryption_using_net_framework/
Considering the Options for Data Encryption
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6098/considering_options_data_encryption/
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Terrorists' Web Chatter Shows Concern About Internet Privacy
Terrorist groups, which for years have used
the Internet and its various tools to organize
and communicate, are paying more attention
to addressing security and privacy concerns
similar to those of other Web users,
counterterrorism experts say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201968.html
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Why piracy isn't going away in China
Over the past few months, some of China's
top PC manufacturers have pledged to
purchase genuine Windows XP and other
Microsoft Corp. products, in an effort
to combat piracy in one of the areas
where it is most prevalent. Yeah, so?
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110554,00.html
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