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2. Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day

3. Hard drive with Clinton-era data missing from National Archives

4. Missing drive had no Clinton Administration records, says National Archives

5. Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack code

6. Sophos beams up free Klingon antivirus app to Star Trek fans' PCs

7. Preston Gralla: Mac OS X Java fiasco: Apple still doesn't get security

8. Antivirus Test: A Quest for Nearly Objective Rankings

9. Google Street View hits privacy gridlock in Germany

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Facing criticism, Adobe rethinks PDF security

Blasted in February for being slow to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its
popular PDF viewer, Adobe today pledged to root out bugs in older code, speed up
the patching process and release regular security updates for Adobe Reader and
Acrobat.
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Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day

The Conficker worm is still infecting systems at a brisk rate and continues to
snag computers in Fortune 1000 companies, according to security researchers.
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Hard drive with Clinton-era data missing from National Archives

An external hard drive thought to contain nearly 1TB of data -- some of it
sensitive information -- from the Clinton Administration is missing from the
U.S. National Archives and Recording Administration.
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Missing drive had no Clinton Administration records, says National Archives

No original Clinton Administration records were stored on an external hard drive
missing at the U.S. National Archives and Recording Administration (NARA), the
agency said this afternoon.
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Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack code

In an effort to draw attention to a long-standing security problem in Apple's
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exploits the flaw.
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Sophos beams up free Klingon antivirus app to Star Trek fans' PCs

Hard on the heels of renewed interest in the Star Trek franchise, security
company Sophos has released a Klingon-language version of a free malware
scanning tool it uses to show Earth-bound customers how its technology stacks up
against rivals' apps.
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Preston Gralla: Mac OS X Java fiasco: Apple still doesn't get security

News that Apple has yet to fix a Java security bug on Mac OS X six months after
its discovery should surprise no one. Apple lags behind Microsoft when it comes
to handling security, and this latest fiasco only shows that Apple still doesn't
take security seriously.

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Antivirus Test: A Quest for Nearly Objective Rankings

Editor's Note: Chaz Sowers wants reliable, indepedently tested antivirus
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test? Unsatisfied with lab ratings, he built his own malware testbed and put 35
AV products through the paces. Here is the story behind one man's AV rankings;
your results may vary.
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Google Street View hits privacy gridlock in Germany

Germany and Google remained at odds over how the company holds certain data used
for its Street View map imagery.
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still had the session open ...

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Wi-Fi hikes security for handoffs between Wi-Fi, 3G networks

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2. Google FAIL and the Fog Over Cloud Security

3. Cybersecurity groups pledge to work together

4. Pirate Bay: Court looks at conflict of interest allegations

5. CA unveils Compliance Manager for z/OS for mainframe policy control

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Wi-Fi hikes security for handoffs between Wi-Fi, 3G networks

The Wi-Fi Alliance has expanded its WPA2 certification program to include a tool
for secure handoffs between Wi-Fi and 3G networks, as well as an authentication
system that uses multiple secured tunnels.
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Google FAIL and the Fog Over Cloud Security

Late last year, when I interviewed Google Apps senior security manager Eran
Feigenbaum and his marketing partner, Adam Swidler, they talked up Google's
place in cloud computing and how it was in a prime position to make a difference
with cloud security. [ Four Questions On Google App Security]
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Cybersecurity groups pledge to work together

Three cybersecurity groups want to create a network of organizations and people
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Pirate Bay: Court looks at conflict of interest allegations

The Swedish court of appeals will look into allegations that judge who handled a
case involving the Pirate Bay file sharing service had a conflict interest, the
court said on Wednesday.
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CA unveils Compliance Manager for z/OS for mainframe policy control

CA Wednesday unveiled Compliance Manager for z/OS, its first
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Hoop-jumping

We purchased a new fiber channel SAN, the third we've bought from this vendor.
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