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• 12/23/10 IE9 Blocks Malware, But Older Versions A
  
• 12/21/10 Divided FCC adopts rules to protect Web
  
• 12/10/10 Don't Wikileak Yourself: How Safe is You
  
• 12/02/10 Plan could charge some users higher Inte
  
• 12/02/10 FTC wants voluntary 'Do Not Track' for t
  
• 08/06/10 FCC abandons efforts at net neutrality c
  
• 08/05/10 Cyber Command chief details threats to U
  
• 08/05/10 Source: Google, Verizon near net neutral
  
• 07/29/10 US wants increased police access to emai
  
• 07/28/10 Slovenia IDs, Arrests 'Mariposa' Botnet
  
• 07/28/10 Adobe Joins Microsoft's Patch-reporting
  
• 07/26/10 Citi plugs privacy hole in iPhone bankin
  
• 07/26/10 Jailbreaking officially granted DMCA exe
  
• 07/22/10 Forecaster: End of single-fee broadband
  
• 07/22/10 Dell ships motherboard with malicious co
  
• 07/22/10 IP czar targets overseas pirate sites
  
• 07/09/10 More Americans Are Going Online with Mob
  
• 07/07/10 Apple Removes Hacked Apps, Warns Users o
  
• 07/02/10 Apple 'stunned' to find iPhones show too
  
• 07/02/10 New rules bring online piracy fight to U
  
• 06/30/10 Google to block outdated plug-ins in Chr
  
• 06/21/10 Wanted: Young cyberexperts to defend Int
  
• 06/21/10 Firefox add-on encrypts sessions with Fa
  
• 06/21/10 Connecticut heads up 30-state Google Wi-
  
• 06/18/10 Clickjackers spreading corrupted Faceboo
  
• 06/18/10 Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Included P
  
• 06/18/10 FTC, Microsoft and Others Create 'Intern
  
• 06/14/10 Majority of U.S. mobile Web use from iOS
  
• 06/14/10 Linux infection proves Windows malware m
  
• 06/10/10 'Second Life' Creator Linden Lab Cuts St
  
• 06/10/10 135,000 Fake YouTube Pages Delivering Ma
  
• 06/09/10 AT&T fixes major iPad 3G security hole
  
• 06/09/10 Microsoft finally fixes Pwn2Own browser
  
• 06/09/10 'Scareware' ads proliferate across Inter
  
• 06/09/10 Hulu plans to charge, expand to devices:
  
• 06/09/10 Article: Gamers 'have reactions of pilot
  
• 06/08/10 High-speed Internet cable to link Europe
  
• 06/08/10 Apple plugs 48 Safari, WebKit security h
  
• 06/04/10 Supercomputer simulation: Gulf of Mexico
  
• 06/04/10 FTC Cracks Down on RemoteSpy Keylogger S
  
• 06/04/10 US Cyber Command chief warns of 'remote
  
• 06/03/10 Google's Wi-Fi data harvest facing more
  
• 06/03/10 U.S. replaces China as top source of mal
  
• 06/03/10 Taiwanese phishermen rip off American tr
  
• 06/03/10 Beware Twitter password-reset messages
  
• 06/02/10 Streaming video to outpace P2P traffic g
  
• 06/01/10 Top 500 Supercomputer Sites Released
  
• 05/21/10 Research: 1.3 million malicious ads view
  
• 05/21/10 Facebook sent some user data to advertis
  
• 05/20/10 Malware Watch: Rogue Facebook apps, fake
  
• 05/20/10 Microsoft warns of 64-bit Windows 7 hole
  
• 05/20/10 FTC asked to probe Street View privacy s
  
• 05/20/10 Symantec to Buy VeriSign's Authenticatio
  
• 05/18/10 Tracking Web users without using cookies
  
• 05/18/10 Google faces probes over data it collect
  
• 05/14/10 Microsoft rolling out Office Webs Apps o
  
• 05/11/10 New attack bypasses EVERY Windows securi
  
• 05/10/10 How an unfixed Net glitch could strand y
  
• 05/10/10 Facebook phishing scam snares company bo
  
• 05/05/10 'Extremely severe' flaw in Opera web bro
  
• 05/05/10 Consumer groups: Online tracking at 'ala
  
• 05/05/10 Sophos sells majority stake to investors
  
• 05/05/10 Internet Explorer Usage Decreasing
  
• 04/29/10 Fake Scans That Plant Malware Are Rising
  
• 04/28/10 iPad could cause insomnia, researchers s
  
• 04/28/10 Facebook does not erase user-deleted con
  
• 04/27/10 iPad users on Windows targeted with malw
  
• 04/27/10 Visa targets online marketing 'scam'
  
• 04/27/10 Senators see privacy problem in Facebook
  
• 04/23/10 Microsoft admits MS10-025 patch didn't f
  
• 04/23/10 Blippy users' credit card info exposed o
  
• 04/23/10 Opera enables testing of mobile web site
  
• 04/22/10 Mitigating the social engineering threat
  
• 04/22/10 Few Answers After McAfee Antivirus Updat
  
• 04/21/10 Just as you thought: More teens are text
  
• 04/21/10 Cybercrime Toolkits for Neophytes Pose a
  
• 04/21/10 Google tool shows government appetites f
  
• 04/20/10 Security gone awry: IE 8 XSS filter expo
  
• 04/20/10 Second-hand copiers can spill secrets
  
• 04/20/10 Google cyberattack hit password system:
  
• 04/19/10 New Mac OS X malware variant spotted
  
• 04/19/10 Attention Multitaskers! New Study Says T
  
• 04/19/10 Google browser eliminates 'http' from UR
  
• 04/19/10 Zeus botnet jumps on PDF design flaw
  
• 04/16/10 Young adults concerned but naive about p
  
• 04/15/10 Java zero-day flaw under active attack
  
• 04/15/10 The end of USB? Intel demos new Light Pe
  
• 04/15/10 Library of Congress to preserve Twitter
  
• 04/13/10 Apache.org hit by targeted XSS attack, p
  
• 04/13/10 Copyright violation alert ransomware in
  
• 04/09/10 Facebook hit by another version of Koobf
  
• 04/09/10 Tech Secrets: 21 Things 'They' Don’t Wan
  
• 04/09/10 Securing the smart grid
  
• 04/09/10 Microsoft and Adobe Patches Coming on Tu
  
• 04/07/10 Adobe suggests workaround for PDF embedd
  
• 04/07/10 Internet Explorer 9 developer preview
  
• 04/07/10 Report: Changing Font Can Save on Printi
  
• 04/06/10 Study: More women embracing Web communit
  
• 04/06/10 US court rules against FCC on 'net neutr
  
• 04/05/10 Adobe, FoxIt investigating PDF executabl
  
• 04/05/10 Whole Foods working to curb Facebook-bas
  
• 04/05/10 iPad Fail: Users Experiencing Issues
  
• 04/05/10 Stanford Univ. launches applications sec
  
• 03/29/10 FIFA World Cup themed malware campaign s
  
• 03/26/10 Symantec finds China top source of malwa
  
• 03/24/10 Inside a global cybercrime ring
  
• 03/24/10 Internet agency approves domains in nati
  
• 03/11/10 Huge 'botnet' amputated, but criminals r
  
• 03/09/10 Microsoft warns of zero-day IE hole on P
  
• 03/09/10 LifeLock to Pay $12 Million to Settle FT
  
• 03/08/10 How cybercriminals invade social network
  
• 03/08/10 Energizer battery charger contains backd
  
• 03/05/10 Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitor
  
• 03/05/10 YouTube Rolls Out Auto-Captioning for He
  
• 03/05/10 FBI director warns of growing cyber thre
  
• 02/25/10 Microsoft Uses Court Order To Cripple Wa
  
• 02/19/10 Trove of 68,000 stolen logons in hands o
  
• 02/19/10 Skeletons in Adobe's security closet
  
• 02/18/10 Cyber Emergency? Sorry Folks, We're Just
  
• 02/18/10 Google seeks court approval of digital b
  
• 02/18/10 Virus has breached 75,000 computers: stu
  
• 02/16/10 Chromium browser remixed as a security D
  
• 02/16/10 FCC to propose higher broadband speeds
  
• 02/11/10 Researchers intercept dangerous new bank
  
• 02/09/10 Security chip that does encryption in PC
  
• 02/08/10 Mozilla Firefox hit by malware add-ons
  
• 02/04/10 Internet Explorer Bug Can Disclose Local
  
• 02/04/10 Hackers rigging blogs, email, websites:
  
• 02/01/10 "Alarming" rise in cyberattacks at socia
  
• 02/01/10 Botnet Targets Major Web Sites With Junk
  
• 01/20/10 Virus attack hits Vista machines, crippl
  
• 01/14/10 Campuses ordered to stop using Kindle DX
  
• 01/14/10 Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google -
  
• 01/14/10 Google attack part of widespread spying
  
• 01/07/10 CES: Ford brings smartphone Web apps to
  
• 01/06/10 Encryption busted on NIST-certified King
  
• 01/06/10 Online banking warning surprises some ex
  
• 01/06/10 Study: Three-quarters of U.S. adults use
  
• 01/06/10 FBI Investigating Online School District
  
• 01/05/10 FCC Urged to Expand Wireless Broadband A
  
• 01/05/10 Software defect hits millions of German
  
• 12/23/09 White House picks new cyber coordinator
  
• 12/16/09 Rogue Antivirus Lurks Behind Google Dood
  
• 12/15/09 Court reviews employer access to worker
  
• 12/15/09 SQL attacks take off in last year
  
• 12/15/09 Social network searches could be a hacke
  
• 12/14/09 Adobe Flash's security woes: How to prot
  
• 12/11/09 Facebook users unwittingly spread Koobfa
  
• 12/11/09 With draft standard, 3D Web closer to re
  
• 12/11/09 FTC warns of explicit content in virtual
  
• 12/09/09 Google finally unveils Chrome for Mac, L
  
• 12/09/09 Facebook redraws site's privacy boundari
  
• 12/09/09 How fake sites trick search engines to h
  
• 12/08/09 Top Publishers Launch Common E-Reader Pl
  
• 12/08/09 Cyber crooks tarketing banks-social netw
  
• 12/03/09 McAfee uncovers riskiest domains
  
• 12/02/09 Fake H1N1 (Swine Flu) alerts lead to mal
  
• 12/01/09 Royal Society puts rare scientific manus
  
• 12/01/09 Exploit published for FreeBSD local root
  
• 12/01/09 Office Web Apps access comes to Windows
  
• 11/19/09 Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up
  
• 11/18/09 Thousands of web sites compromised, redi
  
• 11/04/09 Corporate bank accounts targeted in onli
  
• 10/30/09 Reports: Cyberattacks traced to NKorea
  
• 10/30/09 Multilingual web address system approved
  
• 10/30/09 US-CERT Moves in With NCC, NCSC
  
• 10/23/09 McCain Bill Would Ban FCC Internet Regul
  
• 10/23/09 Disney Wants To Make Videos Accessible f
  
• 10/20/09 Fake security software in millions of co
  
• 10/20/09 New twist on scareware locks up your PC
  
• 10/19/09 Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive
  
• 10/15/09 Opera Unite beta launched
  
• 10/14/09 Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data (
  
• 10/13/09 Startup hopes to use user data to map qu
  
• 10/13/09 McAfee releases new security suite for M
  
• 10/12/09 Adobe exploit puts backdoor on computers
  
• 10/12/09 Hacked web mail accounts used to send sp
  
• 10/12/09 Patch Tuesday Will Be Biggest Ever with
  
• 10/09/09 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Patch Coming Tu
  
• 10/09/09 Cyberthieves find workplace networks are
  
• 10/09/09 Phished or not, leaked passwords show la
  
• 10/08/09 Online banking fraud rockets as fraudste
  
• 10/08/09 Intel's Light Peak optical links could a
  
• 10/08/09 FBI smashes US-Egypt cyber 'phishing' ri
  
• 10/07/09 Massive E-Mail Phishing Attack Hits Web
  
• 10/07/09 FCC chairman warns of "looming spectrum
  
• 09/10/09 Microsoft flaw could open PCs to Confick
  
• 09/10/09 Symantec tool calculates your data's val
  
• 09/09/09 New protection system to anticipate PC i
  
• 09/09/09 Windows Genuine Advantage: Spyware or le
  
• 09/09/09 WordPress warns of wayward worm
  
• 09/03/09 Vulnerable Adobe Flash shipped with Snow
  
• 09/03/09 Symantec: Posted code enables VoIP spyin
  
• 08/31/09 High-end server chips breaking records
  
• 08/31/09 Hackers mailing malware-infested CDs to
  
• 08/26/09 Social network users not taking security
  
• 08/26/09 Symantec pulls Norton patch after error
  
• 08/26/09 US ranks 28th in Internet connection spe
  
• 08/25/09 55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malw
  
• 08/21/09 Report: Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to Figh
  
• 08/20/09 Rogue Facebook apps steal log-in data, s
  
• 08/20/09 Phone scams up despite do-not-call regis
  
• 08/20/09 Symantec identifies 'Dirtiest Web Sites
  
• 08/19/09 Spam offers to let people use their PC t
  
• 08/19/09 New alliance aims to unite malware fight
  
• 08/19/09 Padlock hard drive encrypts data via key
  
• 08/18/09 Adobe plugs critical ColdFusion, JRun vu
  
• 08/18/09 EU invests millions in high-speed mobile
  
• 08/17/09 Gov't: Man tried to steal 130M credit ca
  
• 08/17/09 Researchers prove kernel is secure
  
• 08/17/09 Hacker used Twitter to control infected
  
• 08/14/09 Netscape founder backs new browser
  
• 08/14/09 Undersea Internet Cables Undergoing Repa
  
• 08/13/09 Kid-friendly sites screen videos for ina
  
• 08/13/09 Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to dec
  
• 08/13/09 Oracle launches tool for virtual applian
  
• 08/12/09 New Mac OS X DNS changer spreads through
  
• 08/11/09 Top search terms among kids
  
• 08/06/09 Twitter crippled by denial-of-service at
  
• 08/06/09 Mozilla shuts online store after securit
  
• 08/06/09 Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image
  
• 08/05/09 InfoWorld confirms critical Windows 7 bu
  
• 08/04/09 Swedish crackdown on piracy pays off
  
• 08/04/09 Intel Halts Shipments of New Solid-State
  
• 08/03/09 U.S. weighs risks of civilian harm in cy
  
• 08/03/09 Clampi Worm Puts Online Financial Transa
  
• 08/03/09 Hackers expose weakness in visiting trus
  
• 07/31/09 Spammers, Virus Writers Abusing URL Shor
  
• 07/31/09 An SMS can force a URL or app on smartph
  
• 07/31/09 Adobe patches critical Flash hole
  
• 07/28/09 Network Solutions breach exposes nearly
  
• 07/28/09 Adobe 'zero-day' flaw is eight months ol
  
• 07/28/09 419 scammers using Dilbert.com
  
• 07/27/09 HP researchers develop browser-based dar
  
• 07/24/09 Legal advocates push for Google Books pr
  
• 07/23/09 More Americans Access Internet From Mobi
  
• 07/23/09 New undersea cable gives Africa high-spe
  
• 07/22/09 People the weak link in cybersecurity: r
  
• 07/21/09 Linux exploit gets around security barri
  
• 07/21/09 802.11n Should Be Finalized By September
  
• 07/16/09 Major antivirus engines failing to detec
  
• 07/16/09 Lessons from Twitter's security breach
  
• 07/16/09 Analysts See Alarming Development in Mob
  
• 07/14/09 Microsoft warns of attacks on new Active
  
• 07/14/09 IBM unveils data-masking technology
  
• 07/13/09 Microsoft moving Office online in duel w
  
• 06/30/09 Google bolsters 3-D API for browser
  
• 06/30/09 Jackson searches resemble attack to Goog
  
• 06/26/09 Businesses use Twitter to communicate wi
  
• 06/26/09 Google's Android gets native development
  
• 06/26/09 ICANN hires former cybersecurity chief a
  
• 06/25/09 Britain to get official cyber attack dog
  
• 06/25/09 Pentagon signs off on Cyber Command
  
• 06/19/09 That e-mail attachment is not a Twitter
  
• 06/18/09 'Golden Cash' botnet-leasing network unc
  
• 06/18/09 Survey: Elderly, poor narrow broadband s
  
• 06/17/09 More are searching the Web for medical a
  
• 06/17/09 Firefox 3.5 'Web upgrade' planned for en
  
• 06/17/09 Opera Unite Puts File Sharing in the Bro
  
• 06/15/09 AP IMPACT: Weak security enables credit
  
• 06/12/09 Look Ma, I created a botnet!
  
• 06/11/09 Microsoft to unveil free anti-virus soft
  
• 06/09/09 Juniper revs Ethernet to 100Gbps
  
• 06/09/09 Computer injuries on rise, youths most a
  
• 06/05/09 Scammers using search optimization on Tw
  
• 06/05/09 FTC shuts allegedly rogue Internet provi
  
• 06/03/09 Adobe service puts browsers side by side
  
• 06/03/09 Google-like' Tool Aids Network Security
  
• 06/01/09 Experts warn mobile phones face hacking
  
• 06/01/09 ID-theft ruling: Set your own fraud aler
  
• 05/29/09 Microsoft Security Advisory for Microsof
  
• 05/29/09 MacBook Pro firmware update adjusts fan
  
• 05/29/09 Obama calling for better security for co
  
• 05/28/09 US Gov't Panel Calls for New Privacy Rul
  
• 05/28/09 Google Tests Scripting Feature for Onlin
  
• 05/27/09 Twitter API ripe for abuse by web worms
  
• 05/27/09 OpenSSH chink bares encrypted data packe
  
• 05/27/09 Report: Spam now 90 percent of all e-mai
  
• 05/27/09 Fake E-Waste Recycling Events in Pittsbu
  
• 05/22/09 Clickjacking: Hijacking clicks on the In
  
• 05/21/09 Technology allows you to be a part of hi
  
• 05/21/09 Inside the botnets that never make the n
  
• 05/21/09 Report: Attackers exploit IIS hole to br
  
• 05/19/09 Businesses to pay to Twitter this year?
  
• 05/19/09 Microsoft warns of new server vulnerabil
  
• 05/19/09 Web Attack That Poisons Google Results G
  
• 05/18/09 Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter
  
• 05/15/09 Supercloud looms for Japanese government
  
• 05/15/09 Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebo
  
• 05/14/09 Deloitte banking on PIN sharp security
  
• 05/14/09 Back up conveniently with free GFI app
  
• 05/14/09 Pirated Windows 7 RC builds botnet
  
• 05/12/09 French parliament adopts tough Internet
  
• 05/12/09 Microsoft says hackers seek to attack Po
  
• 05/12/09 Prism 1.0 Beta Launches With New Website
  
• 05/08/09 Report: Hackers broke into FAA air traff
  
• 05/08/09 Intel, Microsoft, Dell band together for
  
• 05/08/09 Hackers taking advantage of Windows 7: M
  
• 05/07/09 EU Parliament rejects law allowing Inter
  
• 05/07/09 HyperMac external battery gives juice to
  

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