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        <title>The Tech Herald Security News</title>
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            <title>BitDefender: Trojans amounted for half of threats discovered in June</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3992/BitDefender-Trojans-amounted-for-half-of-threats-discovered-in-June</link>
            <description><![CDATA[BitDefender released their monthly threat list this week, giving insight to what they saw in June. This month, Trojans have continued their aim for Internet domination, accounting for half of the top ten threats. 

The top two spots, Clicker.CM and AutorunINF.GEN, amounted to 10.13 percent and 10.04 percent respectively, of all the Malware counted in June BitDefender says. AutorunINF.GEN, which was number one in May, falls to second place in June.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Q&amp;A: Proginet CIO Kevin Bohan</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3991/Q&amp;A-Proginet-CIO-Kevin-Bohan</link>
            <description><![CDATA[File transfer, often done by email attachment or FTP, is relatively straightforward. However, when you add in governance, and other compliance issues, even FTP can create drama in the IT department. Since FTP is often overlooked, we checked out a few vendors who offer Secure File Transfer or Managed File Transfer solutions. One of them, Proginet, gave us an exclusive one-on-one.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Profile: Tufin Technologies</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3987/Profile-Tufin-Technologies</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If you work in IT, you have devices to manage. There's no escaping this fact. Often device management comes down to numbers and resources insofar as how many devices are there to manage, where are they located, who has access to them, and  will the office in Manhattan by affected if someone in Chicago changes a policy?]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>More Michael Jackson-related attacks online</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3984/More-Michael-Jackson-related-attacks-online</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Several security vendors are issuing reports about Michael Jackson-related Malware, either in the form of a mass-mailing Worm or search-related domains that offer images. The aim is to use the shock of the pop star's death to lure victims into downloading images, videos, music, and news articles with the latest information. 

On Monday, F-Secure discovered several domains spreading Malware related to the singer’s recent death.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Firefox 3.5 to get first patch mid-late July</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mozilla Corp. is said to be planning a round of patches and bug fixes for its newly released browser update due later this month. As was the case during the 3.0 release, Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.1 just four weeks later, addressing several bugs and security issues. 

The patches, coming only a few weeks after Firefox 3.5 was released to the public, will address what Mozilla calls "topcrashes", or bugs that lead to consistent crashes in the browser.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Month of Twitter Bugs kicks off with bit.ly vulnerabilities</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3976/Month-of-Twitter-Bugs-kicks-off-with-bit-ly-vulnerabilities</link>
            <description><![CDATA[[Update: The open XSS vulnerability has been patched.]
The Month of Twitter Bugs (MoTB) kicked off this morning with four vulnerabilities for the popular bit.ly URL service. The bit.ly service, the second most popular URL service used on Twitter according to Tweetmeme.com, is vulnerable to a single XSS attack on URL information pages created by the service. There were three other XSS attacks, but those were all patched before disclosure. 

The list of bit.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>China backs down on July 1 mandate for Green Dam</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3970/China-backs-down-on-July-1-mandate-for-Green-Dam</link>
            <description><![CDATA[China has pushed back their mandated timeline for filtering software that was to be preinstalled on new computers entering the country for sale. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Tuesday that the reasoning for the backtracking, what they call a delay, was because PC manufacturers needed more time. The MIIT did not issue a new deadline or mention one in their press release.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Symantec releases Disaster Recovery survey results</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3969/Symantec-releases-Disaster-Recovery-survey-results</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Symantec has released the results of their Disaster Recovery survey this week, which highlights a strong growth in recovery operations but at the same time shows that while DR budgets are higher in 2009, they are expected to remain flat over the next few years. As always seems the case in IT, this means that IT teams will have to do more with the same or less.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Weigman sentenced to 11 years for admitted crimes</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Matthew Weigman, the legally blind phone phreaker considered the best alive to practice the craft, was sentenced to 11 years in prison this week in accordance to his guilty plea entered earlier this year on charges of intimidation and computer intrusion. The notable aspect to his crimes was the use of a phone to instigate a form of punishment and entertainment called swatting, where SWAT teams were dispatched to victims homes based on false 911 calls.]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Should Verified Identity Pass destroy or store passenger information?</title>
            <link>http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200927/3967/Should-Verified-Identity-Pass-destroy-or-store-passenger-information</link>
            <description><![CDATA[By now the news is out, Verified Identity Pass, Inc. (VIP) was unable to secure a new deal with their senior creditor, and as such the company has folded like a player with a poor poker hand. However, the child company of VIP, Clear, held a good deal of information on customers who used the service to skip long security lines at the airport. Should VIP continue to secure and store the data or simply destroy it?]]></description>
            <author>Steve Ragan</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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