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September 4, 2008 — Click here to view this newsletter online

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Apple iCal vulnerability offers malware risk

Dan Kaplan May 21, 2008

Three vulnerabilities in Apple's iCal personal calendar application could enable remote attackers to install malicious code on victim's machines.

Phishers turn to legit sites to steal information

Dan Kaplan May 21, 2008

Normally, phishers have a short window of opportunity in which to conduct their attacks before service providers take the rogue sites offline. Now, they have found a new way to lengthen their assaults.

Privacy issues loom over Google Health

Sue Marquette Poremba May 20, 2008

As Google launches its Google Health, security experts are concerned that personal medical records are at a greater risk of being breached.

Federal agencies' FISMA grade up slightly

Jim Carr May 20, 2008

Federal agencies continued to show slight improvement in 2007 in their ability to protect sensitive data.

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Debian random key generator flaw could persist

Dan Kaplan May 20, 2008

Even though a vulnerability in the OpenSSL library used to generate key pairs on Debian-based Linux distributions has been fixed, IT administrators will be hard-pressed to ensure each key is unbreakable, a security researcher said this week.

DHS report: Open-source code "quality" is up

Jim Carr May 20, 2008

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open-source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.

EV SSL and XSS: Mixing apples and oranges

Tim Callan, vice president, SSL product marketing, VeriSign, Inc. May 20, 2008

When individuals lack an understanding of the specifics of a technology, it is very easy to make inaccurate conclusions on how any two technologies are related -- if they are related at all

Text messages scam for Asian donations

Sue Marquette Poremba May 19, 2008

The recent natural disasters in China and Myanmar have led to scams to steal money intended for donations.

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