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            <title>Phishing: Verified by Visa scam targets holiday shoppers</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4815/Phishing-Verified-by-Visa-scam-targets-holiday-shoppers</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Use some caution if you get an email asking you to join Verified by Visa over the next few weeks. Taking advantage of the holiday rush to shop online, the public awareness of the Verified by Visa brand, and the security it offers, criminals are pushing a Phishing scam that offers very little in the way of true protection. 

Verified by Visa is a solid layer of security for your Visa card. It works alongside the fraud detection and purchase protection offered by the issuing bank.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Spam campaigns offer bill collecting and vampires</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4814/Spam-campaigns-offer-bill-collecting-and-vampires</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Heading off into the weekend, there are two Spam campaigns worth a mention. One of them offers a chance to see a glittery vampire and a wolf that looks more like a teddy bear, while the other wants you to pay someone. 

The first scam for the weekend comes from researchers at Cloudmark who have noticed about 2.5 million emails begging for money floating around. The email subjects all start with “payment request from” but will change depending on the retailer or major business of the moment.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Donbot botnet pushing Twitter-based Spam</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4811/Donbot-botnet-pushing-Twitter-based-Spam</link>
            <description><![CDATA[According to a new alert from MessageLabs, the Donbot botnet has started pushing Spam that uses the popular micro-blogging service Twitter as a tie-in. Within 24-hours, what started out as a small run is now a Spam campaign that accounts for 4-percent of global Spam. 

The Donbot Spam run is of the “get rich quick” or “make money part-time from home” variety, the kind where you can pay a small fee for a trial program, and then just sit back and watch as the millions come rolling in.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Windows 7 from a vendor perspective - a chat with BeyondTrust</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4801/Windows-7-from-a-vendor-perspective-a-chat-with-BeyondTrust</link>
            <description><![CDATA[When Symark acquired BeyondTrust, in our opinion, the business deal was one that honestly merged two solid programs into one. BeyondTrust has a good deal of experience with Windows-based security, so we asked them about Microsoft’s newest family member. 

As it turns out, Eric Voskuil, BeyondTrust CTO, took the time to answer our questions and offer his thoughts on the new OS, as well as address what the new BeyondTrust is doing now that Windows 7 is official.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Malicious search results hit Google on a large scale</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4806/Malicious-search-results-hit-Google-on-a-large-scale</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Cyveillance has discovered a new breed of attacks, masked within Google search results, that use Web redirects to infect users. In the last week, Cyveillance has identified more than 350,000 links that infect Google search results, acting as a gateway to Rogue anti-Virus infections and other Malware. 

According to Cyveillance, the path from the hijacked pages listed in the BlackHat search results to the fake anti-virus software drop sites is swift and likely not noticed by the user.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Windows 7 activation crack comes as no surprise</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4805/Windows-7-activation-crack-comes-as-no-surprise</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Weekend reports that Windows 7's product activation system has been cracked - less than a month after the new Microsoft operating system was officially released - come as no surprise, says application vulnerability vendor Fortify. 

There are two applications moving around online. Dubbed RemoveWAT and Chew-WGA, the applications work in different ways to remove the need to license a legal copy of Microsoft’s newest operating system, by tricking it into thinking it’s registered.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Metasploit 3.3 is official</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4804/Metasploit-3-3-is-official</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After 12 months in development, Metasploit version 3.3 is available to the masses. The new version packs in a ton of features, fixes, exploits, and payloads, thanks to contributions from the community. 

“The Metasploit community has worked hard over the last 12 months to build a penetration testing platform with unique features and unmatched flexibility,” said HD Moore in a statement.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Budget problems and IT collaboration issues present challenge to security</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4803/Budget-problems-and-IT-collaboration-issues-present-challenge-to-security</link>
            <description><![CDATA[According to a new study by the Ponemon Institute and Lumension, the adoption of mobile devices, cloud computing, and collaborative technologies is happening faster than companies are able to adapt security policies. Part of this is due to poor budget allocation and broken IT collaboration.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Xceedium launches GateKeeper 5 and inks deal with Raytheon</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4802/Xceedium-launches-GateKeeper-5-and-inks-deal-with-Raytheon</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Xceedium, who provides access control and auditing solutions to the enterprise, announced on Tuesday that the newest version of GateKeeper now supports virtualized and mainframe environments. In addition to the new product offering, they have signed a deal with Raytheon to resell GateKeeper with their own SureView security offerings. 

In short, GateKeeper can track and restrict access on many levels.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Four sentenced in connection to banking Trojan</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200947/4799/Four-sentenced-in-connection-to-banking-Trojan</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A gang of four has been sentenced to thirteen years in prison for their role in using a Trojan to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK bank accounts. Each man had earlier pleaded guilty to their crimes at Southwark Crown Court, which saw them send the proceeds to criminal networks operating in Eastern Europe.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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