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SEC Slams 35 Suspected Spammers in ‘Operation Spamalot’

The Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended trading in securities of 35 companies suspected to be spammers as part of a new effort, "Operation...

SEC Freezes High-Tech Pump and Dump Scheme

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced March 7 it has won an emergency court order to freeze assets in a Latvian-based bank's trading account...

Microsoft OneCare Is Eating Outlook Mail

Microsoft has confirmed that its Windows Live OneCare managed security service is swallowing entire mail stores, sometimes going back years, from Outlook and Outlook...

Exploit Code Out for Explorer Flaw

Researchers are fuzzy about the impact of a flaw discovered in Microsoft Windows Explorer, but US-CERT's advisory said there's exploit code out there for...

Don’t Trust GnuPG Encrypted and Signed E-Mail

Core Security Technologies has discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard—the open-source cryptographic software system that's part of the GNU software project and at...

JavaScript Hole Found in Firefox, SeaMonkey

The Mozilla Foundation reported on Monday that a critical JavaScript bug in the Firefox browser and in the SeaMonkey Internet application suite could allow...

Thunderbird Open to Exploit

Ubuntu has a security alert out on its Thunderbird e-mail client, with a flaw that could allow an attacker to take over a vulnerable...

KezNews Vista Activation Hack Bogus

I had to laugh at this comment left on the Keznews.com post, which was about KezNews.com users' claims to have hacked Vista product activation: "After...

Government Site Pushing Muscle Relaxants

The Web site of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been infiltrated by either an authorized insider or a hacker who has...

WordPress Code Subverted on Its Own Server

Users who have downloaded the 2.1.1 version of the open-source blogging platform WordPress should upgrade all files to 2.1.2 immediately, since they could include...