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InternetNews August 11, 2010	Malware Scams Hit New Peak in First Half Security software vendor McAfee says the number of new pieces of malware circulating on the Internet reached an all-time high in the first six months of this year.
InternetNews August 9, 2010	Cisco Unveils Top 10 Web Malware Threats Contaminated websites are still a threat, but Cisco's latest security report suggests that are plenty of other Web-borne malware scams that can cost you or your company dearly.
InternetNews August 6, 2010	Adobe Hurries Patch for PDF Security Flaw The vulnerability in Adobe Reader could give hackers control of a user's computer.
InternetNews August 4, 2010	Spam Looking More Like Legitimate Email With spam levels surging, it's also becoming harder for users to identify it, according to a new survey.
InternetNews August 2, 2010	Google Hacking for Enterprise Security: Black Hat At the Black Hat security conference, researchers describe their work expanding on the technique known as Google hacking to leverage the search engine to improve enterprise security.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Taking the Measure of the Twitter 'Crime Rate' Researcher at Barracuda Networks has taken the measure of the "crime rate" on Twitter, which ranks somewhere in between e-mail and Facebook on the threat counter.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Researcher Warns of IE Auto-Complete Flaw At the Black Hat security conference, Whitehat Security CTO Jeremiah Grossman describes a browser flaw that could allow hackers to capture entries stored in Web forms.
InternetNews July 29, 2010	U.S. General Details the Impact of Cyber War At the Black Hat security conference, retired General and former CIA director Michael Hayden explains the dangers of cyber attacks.
InternetNews July 29, 2010	Millions of Home Routers Insecure: Black Hat Security researcher at Black Hat conference warns that outside hackers can gain control of a home router and use it as an entry point to take over the LAN.
InternetNews July 29, 2010	Researcher Warns Most Sites Get SSL Wrong At Black Hat, security researcher presents his latest work demonstrating the widespread misconfiguration of websites that implement SSL protection.
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