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Mafiaboy grows up; a hacker seeks redemption

On the day he knocked Yahoo offline, Michael Calce, who was known at the time only by his online moniker, Mafiaboy, estimates that he had hacked into perhaps 40 percent of the major universities in the United States, using attack code that he picked up online.

| News | Security | 10/12/08 at 8:46 pm |


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Norton 2009 Update is locking up Computers!

Started getting phone calls about locked and frozen PCs after installing the newest update to Norton's 2009 Internet Security.

Symantec has nothing posted on it yet. So, I've posted a temporary workaround to get you into your computer if you're frozen.

| News | Security | 10/12/08 at 2:00 pm |


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Exploit code loose for six-month-old Windows bug

Microsoft Thursday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.



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The Law Requires Email Archiving

According to industry experts, approximately 90% of the day's business communications are performed via email or by way of unsecured instant messages. Communications including unstructured data can clog up an organizations network bandwidth and take up great amounts of storage space.

| Tip | Security | 10/10/08 at 12:13 pm |


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