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The Storm Worm Botnet Is Still a Threat

Have you been receiving more spam email than usual lately? Spam emails with attachments? There’s a reason. As Wired.com notes: The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in e-mail attachments with the subject line: “230 dead as storm batters Europe.” Those who opened the attachment became infected, their computers joining [...]

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Symantec CEO Asserts that Cookies Invade Internet Users’ Privacy

John Thompson, CEO of the security software company, Symantec Corp., is denouncing nondisclosed usage of Internet cookies: During a visit to the EU in Brussels, John Thompson, chief executive of the security software company, said that cookies “are just as much an invasion of privacy as someone peering in my bedroom window”.”I don’t have an [...]

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