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Jobs for the naughty boys

UK's cyber security minister recruits team of former hackers.

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Spammer to serve time

Prolific spammer gets his just desserts.

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Kernel mechanics of Rustock

Chandra Prakash provides details of the kernel-mode operations of a recent (March 2009) version of Rustock, concentrating on the changes from its previous version.

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Can you spare a seg?

Peter Ferrie resumes his series of analyses of viruses contained in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

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Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting

Typosquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and…

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Anti-spam comparative review July 2009

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

In VB’s second round of anti-spam comparative testing and certification the all-important question was whether the high achievers from the first test could maintain the same high standards this month. Martijn Grooten has the results of a test in…

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Obama pledges security education from boardroom to classroom

President Obama announces multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity effort.

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Beware of searching for lyrics

McAfee research identifies riskiest Internet search terms.

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Phisher gets 8.5 years

Phisher sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for phishing scams that netted him approximately $700,000.

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Where is Waledac?

Terry Zink (Microsoft)

Win32/Waledac is a trojan that is used to send spam. It also has the ability to download and execute arbitrary files, harvest email addresses from the local machine, perform denial of service attacks, proxy network traffic and sniff passwords. Scott…

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