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The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations.
The US remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries -- dubbed the "Dirty Dozen".
The Web site of Steven Spielberg's summer film has been defaced by Brazilian hackers who appear to have exploited a vulnerability in an Apache Web server.
Antivirus firms have criticised a Brazilian programmer for writing and distributing source code for the first potentially serious mobile phone virus.
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The crush of millions of Windows users trying to patch their computers overwhelmed Microsoft's update service for several hours after new security fixes were made available, the software giant acknowledged on Wednesday.
Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.
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