Robert Lemos

Kaspersky calls for a massive effort to break the code keys used by a malicious program that encrypts its victim’s data and asks for ransom, but other experts doubt the keys can be found or that finding them will help.
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Security firm Trend Micro refuses to apply for future VB100 certifications, highlighting a debate over how to best test antivirus software.
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Video-content firm Revision3 accuses anti-piracy company MediaDefender — known for its aggressive tactics against file sharers — of attacking its servers over the weekend.
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Federal prosecutors charge the parent who allegedly badgered a girl to suicide with three counts of computer crime, but law experts worry about a dangerous precedent.
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Normally considered a low-level threat on the Internet, scans for default-configured secure shell servers spiked this week.
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As those who still manage to wade through the daily flames on Full Disclosure found out this weekend, the boys over at ZD0 managed to get access to the Administrator account on my blog. They posted the passwd file including the usernames and MD5 password hashes for about a score of users in the latest [...]

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A group of four computer scientists say Windows Update — and other patch services — should be redesigned, after they create a technique to quickly produce attack code from a distributed patch.
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Follow-up: Patch paper redux: Move along please

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The National Retail Federation sends a letter asking that its members be allowed to decide what credit-card data to keep.
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A Congressional committee claims that Unisys allowed malicious code to infect federal systems.
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Numerous account holders complained over the past year that the consumer brokerage had sold or leaked e-mail addresses to pump-and-dump spammers.
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