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RIAA to sever file sharer net connectionsOpen in New Window
Dan Goodin of THe Register writes "The Recording Industry Association of America has signaled a major strategy shift in its war against the downloading of copyrighted music, saying it would largely read more »
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American Express web bug exposes card holdersOpen in New Window
Dan Goodin writes "A glaring vulnerability on the American Express website has unnecessarily put visitors at risk for more than two weeks and violates industry regulations governing credit card comp read more »
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New trojan in mass DNS hijackOpen in New Window
Dan Goodin posts that "Researchers have identified a new trojan that can tamper with a wide array of devices on a local network, an exploit that sends them to impostor websites even if they are hard read more »
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Feds prep gov domains for net address server swapOpen in New Window
Dan Goodin of The Register writes "The US federal government is showing tangible progress as it works to meet a January deadline to implement a sweeping overhaul of its internet address servers, a m read more »
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One in ten DNS servers still vulnerable to poisoningOpen in New Window
Dan Goodin of The Register writes that 4 months after Dan Kominsky revealed the DNS flaw that left servers vulnerable to attack 10% of DNS servers still aren't patched; that translates to about 1.3 read more »
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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday plugs critical holes in IE, OfficeOpen in New Window
Dan Goodin of The Register writes "On Tuesday Microsoft issued updates plugging at least 20 security holes in Windows, Office, and other products. They came as miscreants sent out phony emails urgin read more »
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