Latest security news.
6 hot items on the hacker’s holiday shopping list, 10/17/07: Malicious hackers and other assorted bad guys looking for new tools for plying their trade this upcoming holiday season will have plenty of toys and services to choose from.
The Storm that never ends, 10/18/07: We like to imagine that hackers are smart, but it is their collective incompetence that has allowed the IT industry to survive their attacks as long as they have.
Pump-and-dump spam goes Top 40, 10/18/07: You think you’re getting Fergie, but instead you get a bogus stock tip. Talk about bait and switch.
Couple swarmed by SWAT team after 911 ‘hack’, 10/18/07: A Washington State teenager is facing 18 years in prison on charges that he used his PC to access Orange County, California’s 911 emergency response system and convinced the sheriff’s department into storming an area couple’s home with a heavily armed SWAT team.
Cocktail update fixes high CPU usage bug, 10/18/07: Cocktail, perhaps one of the best known system level utilities for Mac OS X, has been updated to Version 3.8.3, fixing several bugs with the application.
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