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  • Massive fraud server exposed

    A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.

  • FBI calls for hacker help

    The FBI needs help from hackers to fight cybercrime, an agency official said on the first day of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

  • Black Hat with a Vista twist

    Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering this year as Windows Vista and IE7 come under the spotlight.

  • Cisco warns customers of site breach

    Cisco Systems' customers received e-mails on Wednesday from the networking company advising them of a security breach of its Web site.

  • ISS: Flaw researcher fairly treated

    Internet Security Systems has hit back at critics who have accused the company of hypocrisy and thuggish behaviour following a former employee's disclosure of a serious vulnerability in Cisco Systems' router operating system.

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    Driven by fast-appearing threats, network administrators are fixing the most prevalent flaws more quickly, according to a new survey.

  • Securing Microsoft 2: hackers invited to Redmond

    In part two of 'Securing Microsoft', we learn how the company slowly became more intimate with the security community. Microsoft's slow shift to focus more on security came to a head with Vista, with more money spent in securing Vista than anybody has ever been invested into securing any piece of software before.

  • Oracle plans to patch pack of flaws

    Database software maker Oracle promised on Tuesday in the US to quickly make patches available for the more than 30 flaws found by a British security researcher.

  • The eye of Oracle's security storm

    David Litchfield, the UK security expert at the centre of the current Oracle security scare, sets the record straight.

  • Time to ignore SCO?

    Linux users are safe even if the courts rule in favour of the SCO Group, says one technology law expert. Is it time for the IT industry to move on?

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  • Linux start-up eyes consumer electronics

    MontaVista Software is set to unveil a version of the open-source OS for consumer-electronics devices, seeking to have its software used in everything from karaoke wares to high-end TVs.

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