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• Diary of a Deliberately Spammed Housewife What happened when 'Penelope Retch' answered her spam e-mail.
• Malware is Getting Smarter, F-Secure Warns Security vendor F-Secure cautions against new, efficient malware and other pests.
• Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up Trojans, botnets and other malware are growing faster than ever before, security researchers warn.
• Security Firm Reports Trojan Targets Macs A rare Trojan horse program spotted in the wild threatens some Mac OS X systems.
• Do Smartphone Viruses Threaten Networks? All evidence points to the fact that smartphone viruses will be a threat to your network even though they aren't at this...
• 'I Have a Lost Laptop Horror Story for You' An all-too-common tale of woe highlights the importance of identity-theft protection.
• The ARDAgent Security Hole: What You Need to Know If you've been reading the Mac news the last week or so, it's been pretty chock full of information on exploits and malware...
• Why Open Source and the Net Must Play a Role in Medicine Lessons that hospitals and healthcare can learn from Open Source initiatives, including benefits of online medical records.
• 'Big Brother' Fears Over Artificial Intelligence Cameras CCTV cameras could soon 'hear' as well as 'see' if research currently being conducted by scientists finds its way into cameras.
• Endpoint Security Gets a Failing Grade A study by security vendor Sophos reveals that half of all business PCs lack basic security measures.
• Yahoo Search Adds SearchScan, a Good Security Step The new feature provides warnings about dangerous sites from McAfee's SiteAdvisor.
• Coming: A Change in Tactics in Malware Battle To keep up with the criminals, antivirus companies plan a major shift in approach, called 'whitelisting'.
• Ad-Aware 2008 Free Now Available for Download Long-time antispyware favorite gets an update.
• AppleScript and Chat Privacy Recently I was fuming on Twitter about the inability to set "private times" in chat applications. I've spread my...
• Corporate Security Worldwide Fails Basic Tests Everyone knows that there's no such thing as 100 percent security, but it's unlikely that most businesses realize how insecure they really are.
• One in Three IT Admins Admit Snooping A third of IT admins surveyed say they or their colleagues have used top-level passwords to access confidential information.
• Nearly Half of IT Workers Snoop in Confidential Files Nearly half of IT workers in the UK have admitted to looking at confidential information on company networks.
• Storm Is Back--With Porn Scam A new spam campaign uses a link to a spoofed porn site to deliver the Storm Trojan horse.
• SecureMac Discovers Trojan Horse Targeted at Mac OS X SecureMac claims to have discovered several variants of a Trojan horse in the wild targeted at users of Mac OS X 10.4 and...
• Apple Fixes Safari 'carpet Bomb' Bug Apple has reversed its position and patched the "carpet bombing" flaw in its Safari browser.
• Recovering from the Encryption Virus Kaspersky Labs finds a workaround for the gpcode Encryption virus, but it comes with a catch.
• Yahoo Moves Deeper Into Mobile Ads, Search in Asia Yahoo pushed to solidify its space in mobile advertising and search Tuesday with five new deals in seven Asian countries and...
• Insider Threat Exaggerated, Study Says Hackers, holes, malware and other outside efforts account for most corporate security breaches, according to a new report.
• A Guide to Protecting Your Identity Online Safe surfing isn't limited to the young; here's what to post and what to omit and why.
• Hong Kong is Beating Spam, Registrar Says The country's domain registrar reports spam and phishing cases are down 92 percent from last year.