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Two digital certificates have been mistakenly issued in Microsoft's name that could be used by virus writers to fool people into running harmful programs.
Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs' US website was hacked over the weekend exposing the company's customer database, but Kaspersky has denied data was compromised and says the vulnerability wasn't critical.
The apache.org website suffered an intrusion over the weekend that resulted in the site being taken down.
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HP is to launch a penetration-testing service for businesses in October using controlled exploit code.
Security experts warn that code which could be used to attack and crash Cisco routers has been posted to public mailing lists.
A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list that can take advantage of a major vulnerability in the Sendmail mail server.
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Intel chairman Craig Barrett introduces innovative projects such as a $50 digital whiteboard created from a Wii remote, and a mobile phone that can read bar codes on a health ID card.
A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.
The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.
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