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College and students ravaged by viruses for over a decade
Malware that lay undetected on the PCs at a US college for over a decade has probably allowed criminals as far afield as China, Russia and Iran to steal sensitive data, admins have discovered to their horror.
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HTTPS security undermined by lax certificate authorities, says EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published research showing that the SSL certificate system that underpins web security is far from trustworthy.
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Google Search Appliance to index cloud and private data
Google's business search box will sift through data in the cloud and behind company firewalls with the Monday release of Google Search Appliance 6.8.
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Bogus intranets scam university students
Universities and their population of students have been marked out as the next soft target by online criminals, security company RSA has reported.
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Google plug-in turns Microsoft IE into Chrome
Google today released a plug-in that embeds its Chrome browser into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a move one analyst said may be an admission by Google that getting users to switch is harder than it anticipated.
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Mozilla offers 'build your own Firefox' to business
Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to build their own customised browsers based on the next version of Firefox, which will be out in a few weeks.
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Facebook worm resurfaces on Google
Google users could be facing the returm of a worm that first hit Facebook in July.
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Breeze makes mobile apps easy
Anyone who can build a web page can build a mobile application using a J2ME development tool called Breeze, according to the tool's maker, Cascada Mobile.
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Expert highlights power grid vulnerability
Cracking a power company network and gaining access that could shut down the grid is simple, a security expert told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day.
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IBM buys single sign-on technology
IBM has bought Encentuate and to add the company's single-sign-on technology to its Tivoli line of products.




