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Adobe warns of zero-day hole in Reader, Acrobat
Critical vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, company says, and no patch is available yet.
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Antivirus isn't dead--it's growing up
Despite longtime diagnoses that antivirus software is doomed, security will become a service for mobile devices, experts predict.
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Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking
Along with the security fixes, Firefox 3.6.9 gets a new feature to help Web developers reduce clickjacking risks. Also: Chrome 6 gets bug fixes.
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Norton's new Power Eraser goes free
The tool for removing aggressive malware is part of Symantec's 2011 refresh to its Norton consumer security suites.
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Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime
Survey finds China, Brazil, India, and the U.S. at top of list of countries with the most cybercrime victims.
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Trend Micro bets on the cloud
Trend Micro revamps its consumer-protection suites by wagering heavily on cloud-based protection, creating security suites that the company claims are faster at detection and lighter on system resources.
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Court allows warrantless cell location tracking
Philadelphia appeals court rules that no search warrant is needed for police to track Americans' cell phone whereabouts but says individual judges can "sparingly" require one.
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Facebook closes hole that let spammers auto-post to walls, friends
Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people's pages.
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Apple's Ping dinged by spam
The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack of spam- or URL- filtering, according to Sophos.
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U.N. exec: Cyberwar could be 'worse than tsunami'
Proposal for a global "cyberpeace" treaty has met "a lot of resistance" from industrialized nations, says head of U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union.
