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    An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country.

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    Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US.

  • Chinese hackers back off from CNN attack

    Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.

  • Chinese hackers attack Australian govt networks

    Chinese computer hackers have once again been accused of launching attacks on classified Australian government computer networks.

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    A consultant from McAfee Foundstone has shown how to map the internal network on a public kiosk running Citrix XenApp.

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    Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award.

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    Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser while adding some much-needed security features.

  • Norton 360

    For home and student use, we think Norton 360 represents the best value for ease of use, tools offered, and overall system performance. We recommend it over McAfee Total Protection and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare.

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