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  • PDF security risk greater than originally thought

    A recently discovered security weakness in the widely used Acrobat Reader software could put Net users at more risk than previously thought, experts warned on Thursday in the US.

  • Google flaw adds phishing hole to Web sites

    A security flaw in Google's search appliances could expose Web sites that use the products to information-stealing phishing attacks, experts warned on Monday in the US.

  • Google thanks bug hunters

    Google is giving friendly bug hunters an ego-boost with a new page added to its corporate Web site.

  • JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks

    Security researchers have found a way to use JavaScript to map a home or corporate network and attack connected servers or devices, such as printers or routers.

  • Clinton's 'Star Wars' doomed to fail?

    On Thursday, security experts likened a plan by the Clinton Administration to increase the network security of critical pieces of U.S. infrastructure to the moth-balled Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s -- well-meaning, but far too complex to implement.

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  • Framed for child porn - by a PC virus

    Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

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