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Monday, July 9, 2007
* Fraudsters use charities to test credit cards
* Average zero-day bug has 348-day lifespan, exec says
* Court dismisses lawsuit against U.S. wiretapping
* Microsoft to release six security updates next week
* Talking Trojan says 'bye bye' to victims' data
* Mozilla security guru backs industry confab
* E-mail worms rarer in 2007
* Printers get smarter but less secure
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FRAUDSTERS USE CHARITIES TO TEST CREDIT CARDS
Credit card thieves are becoming big-time charity donors, but it's
not out of the goodness of their hearts.
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AVERAGE ZERO-DAY BUG HAS 348-DAY LIFESPAN, EXEC SAYS
The average zero-day bug has a lifespan of 348 days before it is
discovered or patched, but some vulnerabilities live on for much longer,
according to security vendor Immunity's chief executive officer.
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COURT DISMISSES LAWSUIT AGAINST U.S. WIRETAPPING
A U.S. appeals court has ordered that a lawsuit against the U.S. National
Security Agency (NSA) for a wiretapping program be dismissed because the
plaintiffs haven't been hurt by the agency's actions.
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MICROSOFT TO RELEASE SIX SECURITY UPDATES NEXT WEEK
Microsoft will release six groups of security patches next week,
including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users.
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TALKING TROJAN SAYS 'BYE BYE' TO VICTIMS' DATA
A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims'
computers, it taunts them too.
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MOZILLA SECURITY GURU BACKS INDUSTRY CONFAB
While stopping short of volunteering to host the event, Mozilla chief
security official Window Snyder said that it could prove helpful for the
open-source community to meet at its own conference to debate secure
coding, vulnerability reporting, and product patching issues.
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