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Appin IT Security and Ethical Hacking 5.1
Learn how to protect your PC, hack passwords, and identify various attacks.
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Sony pleads innocent in latest rootkit fiasco
August 31, 2007
McAfee joins ranks of those criticizing Sony over rootkit-like behavior of device driver used to run its Micro Vault USB.
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McAfee Inc.
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Flaw may hide malicious software
August 27, 2005
Weakness allows hackers to hide the presence of their applications using keys stored in the Windows Registry, experts say.
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Microsoft will wipe Sony's 'rootkit'
November 13, 2005
Security tools will detect and remove part of the copy protection tools installed on PCs when music CDs are played.
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ISPs versus the zombies
July 19, 2005
If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect--and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
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Border patrol for Internet Explorer
June 26, 2006
Start-up GreenBorder offers a virtual defense for the much-attacked Microsoft browser, but it goes only so far.
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Sony's antipiracy may end up on antivirus hit lists
November 4, 2005
Security software makers consider adding protection against the cloaking tool in Sony's anticopying technology.
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Kaspersky Lab
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Sophos Plc.
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New Mimail mixes tricks for PayPal scam
January 16, 2004
In their quest to bypass security protections, virus writers are now using Trojan horse programs to upload their malicious code to a victim's PC.
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Patching up problems
January 28, 2005
System managers are turning to an old approach to network security to ease the stress of keeping up with plugging holes.
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Zombies try to blend in with the crowd
October 19, 2006
Hackers aim to make networks of hijacked computers go unnoticed by merging their communications with common Web traffic.
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JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks
July 28, 2006
Malicious code embedded in Web site can let miscreant map a home or corporate network, attack connected devices.
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Bypass found for Windows piracy check
May 23, 2005
Using a tool from Microsoft, it is possible to get around the company's piracy test, a researcher says.
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MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines
July 26, 2004
New version of worm clogs e-mail systems around world, slows Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl.
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