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Symantec Culver City Site Awarded LEED Gold Certification Symantec Corp. today announced that its Culver City, CA, campus has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Certification.

Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a “critical” flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.

More Than 75 Percent of Bank Sites at Risk, Study Says A study by the University of Michigan says more than 75 percent of banks are vulnerable to cybercriminals because of design flaws.

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Mozilla fixes nine flaws in Thunderbird Mozilla Messaging patched nine security vulnerabilities in Thunderbird Wednesday, the first time it’s plugged holes in the e-mail software since early May.

Drive-by download attacks menace gov sites The number of drive-by download attacks has tripled and they are beginning to affect government websites as well as small business operations.

DNS attack code out in wild Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed DNS flaw . The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit.

Attack code released for DNS bug Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) software used to route messages between computers on the Internet.

Software piracy hurts the open-source community too Proprietary software vendors, movie companies, and the music industry aren’t the only businesses that don’t like pirates stealing, copying, and reselling their CDs and DVDs. It turns out that pirated…

CAU-EX-2008-0002: Kaminsky DNS Cache Poisoning Flaw Exploit / \ / \ / /\##/ /\ \## ## \ \/ /# ## # ## \/ \/ Computer Academic Underground Exploit Code / Exploit ID: CAU-EX-2008-0002 Release Date: 2008.07.23 Title: bailiwickedhost.rb Description: Kaminsky DNS…

[SECURITY] [DSA 1616-1] new clamav packages fix denial of service - Debian Security Advisory DSA-1616-1 securityatdebian.org Devin Carraway July 24, 2008 - Package : clamav Vulnerability : denial of service Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) :…

[ MDVSA-2008:154 ] - Updated xemacs packages fix vulnerability Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:154 Package : xemacs Date : July 23, 2008 Affected: Corporate 3.0 Problem Description: A vulnerability in xemacs was found where an attacker could provide…

[Full-disclosure] [tool] SDT Cleaner 1.0 Hello! You can find it here: Package: What is the SDT Cleaner? SDT Cleaner is a tool that intends to clean the SSDT (system service descriptor table) from hooks. * The SDT Cleaner allows you to clean…

Defense asks for dismissal of MySpace case Defense lawyers for Lori Drew, a Missouri mother who allegedly used a MySpace account to bully a 13-year-old neighbor, filed three electronic court documents Wednesday asking for the case to be…

Lawyers Compete for Lead in Hannaford Case District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby heard presentations from two groups of lawyers who want to represent the 4 million consumers.

Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds—a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007.