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Project Honey Pot ‘celebrates’ billionth spam message
Facebook about to become most phished organization. Few people would celebrate receiving a billion spam messages, but those at Project Honey Pot must have been a little proud when their billionth message arrived last week. After all, the purpose of the project is to collect as many spam messages as possible and use these to…
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IE zero-day bug fixed in Patch Tuesday updates
Serious browser bug main feature of monthly alerts, Adobe Flash issue also patched. Microsoft has released the December Patch Tuesday security bulletin, with a total of six alerts. The most significant issue covered is a serious vulnerability in the Internet Explorer browser software. Three of the six bulletins were marked as ‘Critical’, with vulnerabilities in…
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Next VB100 comparative announced
SUSE test to challenge Linux products. The latest round of VB100 testing has been announced, with a comparative to be run on Novell ‘s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 in January. Products supporting the platform will be measured against the usual strict criteria to find if they are worthy of a coveted VB100 award. The…
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False positive problem hits avast! users
Human failure blamed for faulty update. A relatively small subsection of the massive user base for Alwil ‘s ever-popular avast! products were hit by a string of false positives last week, which in some cases saw vital Windows components quarantined or deleted. An update released in the very early hours of Thursday morning (00:15 GMT)…
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Legal success against notorious spammers
Atkinson to pay huge fine; Ralsky to spend years in prison. US judges have sentenced two notorious spammers to a huge fine and years of imprisonment, respectively. Yesterday, a US Federal judge sentenced Lance Atkinson, a New Zealand citizen residing in Australia, to a fine of more than 15 million US dollars. Atkinson was the…
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AV-Comparatives releases latest retrospective figures
Half of products rated top-class in proactive detection testing. Independent testing lab AV-Comparatives has released its latest set of results, the semi-annual retrospective test which follows on from its major detection test published in September. Some 16 products featured in the test, the same selection reported on in the September figures, but this time products…
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VB calls for collaboration amongst anti-spam vendors
VB finds that, when it comes to spam filtering, a combined effort outperforms individual products. Virus Bulletin has discovered that running several spam filters in combination could be key to getting the best performance out of them. Following the last VBSpam comparative review of anti-spam products, the VB test team established that if the efforts…
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ICSA Labs report reveals testing details
Certification issues unmasked in 20-year lab survey. Renowned testing and certification group ICSA Labs has released a fascinating report drawing back the curtain on its security product tests – the detailed results of which are generally kept quiet as products go through the process of achieving certification. Among the most widely noted facts in the…
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Fortinet announces IPO
Gateway specialist releases share price projections. Security firm Fortinet has announced its floatation on the Nasdaq stock market, the first IT security company to launch an IPO so since late 2007. The initial public offering will consist of shares valued at $156 million, due to begin trading under ticker symbol ‘FTNT’ today. The announcement of…
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