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InternetNews March 31, 2010	Vietnamese Activists Hit With Malware: Google As it continues to spar with the Chinese government over Internet censorship, Google warns of an apparently unconnected attack in the region targeting Vietnamese activists.
InternetNews March 31, 2010	Mozilla Issues Last Firefox 3.0 Security Update As it plans to wind down the 3.0.x iterations of Firefox, open source browser backer Mozilla offers a wave of security patches to address a variety of threats.
InternetNews March 31, 2010	Black Market Spawns Cyber Crime for Dummies New study from PandaLabs pins the escalating severity of attacks carried out by relatively unskilled hackers on a thriving black market offering ready-made tools.
InternetNews March 30, 2010	Microsoft Issues Patch for IE Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft makes the unusual step of releasing an "out-of-band" security fix for a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, deeming the vulnerability serious enough that it had to act before the next Patch Tuesday.
InternetNews March 30, 2010	Microsoft Says IE's Defenses Not Unbeatable Microsoft touts 'defense in depth' as an effective deterrent after a white hat hacker last week demonstrated a complete takeover of Windows 7 running Internet Explorer 8.
InternetNews March 30, 2010	IBM to Help Defend FAA From Cyber Attacks IBM will test a new system to monitor and safeguard the FAA's networks against hackers, data theft and malware.
AskMen.com	The "Nice Hacker" The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins -- and he says he didn't mean any harm.
InternetNews March 26, 2010	Cisco Targets Security Threats With IOS Update Cisco issues seven security warnings relating to vulnerabilities in its IOS operating system, which powers many of its routers and switches.
InternetNews March 25, 2010	Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries.
InternetNews March 24, 2010	Files From Filched PC Put 7,000 Students at Risk Latest threat of identity theft comes to Vanderbilt University in the form a stolen desktop computer that contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 7,000 students.
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