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A remote user can create a specially crafted archive file that, when processed by the target user with the KDE Ark tool, will issue XMLHttpRequests to arbitrary sites.

A local user with the ability to set specially crafted 'TREENAME' or 'GROUPNAME' values in the spd files can trigger a stack overflow and execute arbitrary code. The code will run with the privileges of the SoftRemote client.

Facebook won a $711 million judgegment against "spam king" Sanford Wallace for violating the Can-Spam Act, which bans "false and misleading" marketing emails. Facebook was awarded $711m in a judgement on Thursday against self-described 'spam king' Sanford Wallace. Judge Jeremy

A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment

The "Krab Krawler" analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them. Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called "Krab Krawler" that analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every

With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious

Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are

LinuxSecurity.com: Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of crackers (hackers). The system administrator is responsible for security Linux box. In this first part of a Linux server security series,

LinuxSecurity.com: Britain is to push ahead with a law to clamp down on illegal file sharing, that would start with a series of warning letters and could result in repeat offenders losing their Internet connection.

LinuxSecurity.com: Canadian open source companies doing development in the U.S. are seldom aware of export regulations requiring encryption algorithms in the code to be filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).

LinuxSecurity.com: The US Department of Defence has unequivocally backed the use of more open source software, describing the genre as one that provides advantages when it comes to achieving the department's objectives.

LinuxSecurity.com: Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you