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Defendant not guilt of breaking hacker law, say legal eagles. Amazon's websites suffered further sporadic outages on Monday, having been knocked out for about two hours on Friday.. A combination of the consolidating financial services space and fear over the stock market plunge has prompted malware writers to shift their tactics. Spam email messages have fallen by eight per cent thanks to the demise on 20 September of California-based ISP Intercage, according to security vendor MessageLabs. 'Get your PC infected here' gets 400 hits. The fall in global spam levels after the shutting of web hosting company McColo looks to be short-lived after researchers reported that the Srizbi botnet has been reactivated.
Strong authentication has improved dramatically since its earliest days. And now more than ever, that comes as good news for consumers. The fate of Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon will be decided by a UK judge on the same day that Barak Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States. The automatic update features in many software applications are proving to be vulnerable to attack. Hackers are taking notice. You should, too. SecureWave’s Sanctuary Device Control is part of a much larger suite of products that all fall into the Sanctuary line. While Device Control can secure against many I/O devices — including securing ports, such as firewire, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — it has excellent control of USB devices, such as thumb drives. Security experts have warned PC users not to fall for a chain letter - which claims lipstick causes cancer - spreading in the wild. Identity theft has become a multi-billion dollar issue that continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multi-million dollar business, says Deloitte's Mark Steinhoff. Internet research firm Netcraft said it has detected a cross-site scripting vulnerability on Yahoo that could be used to hijack authentication cookies. Banks falling behind fraudsters. The Blue Coat Systems CEO gazed into the dotcom abyss and survived. He thinks he has the measure of the downturn. Paul Fisher reports Some of the biggest names in the security industry have failed the latest Virus Bulletin VB100 test. An update released today from Microsoft shows that work carried out as part of its "Keep IT Real" initiative has been successful, lowering the UK piracy rate of Windows XP from 16.7 percent to 12.4 percent over the last seven months. Just a few years ago, Apple commanded only a small fraction of the computer market. One technologist wants the public to understand why releasing exploit code for a dangerous vulnerability is sometimes the right thing to do. Globalisation involves extending the business to locations around the world to make the most cost effective use of global resources.