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Computerworld Security
December 14, 2009
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In this issue:
1. FBI: Rogue antivirus scammers have made $150M
2. Adobe Flash's security woes: How to protect yourself
3. Douglas Schweitzer: Security is easy to say, hard to do!
4. Preston Gralla: Security pro: Facebook is the new Big Brother and the "bad guys'" best friend
5. Microsoft fixes Office 2003 document lockout bug
6. Amazon's data center outage reads like a thriller
7. Preston Gralla: Is Ray Ozzie on the way out at Microsoft?
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FBI: Rogue antivirus scammers have made $150M
They're the scourge of the Internet right now and the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation says they've also raked in more than $150 million for scammers.
Security experts call them rogue antivirus programs.
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Adobe Flash's security woes: How to protect yourself
Experts disagree whether Adobe's security is 'immature' or Flash's popularity
makes it a hackers' target
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Douglas Schweitzer: Security is easy to say, hard to do!
I was perusing some security articles and came across "Top Five Reasons For
Security FAIL" by Adi Ruppin. In the article he talks about security failure and
how encryption isn't foolproof and he even goes on to say that he finds most
personal firewalls useless. I see where he's coming from.
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Preston Gralla: Security pro: Facebook is the new Big Brother and the "bad guys'" best friend
It's not just Google that is being criticized for its privacy policies. Now a
top executive at security firm AVG says Facebook is this generation's version of
Big Brother — and potentially helping criminals engage in identity theft.
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Microsoft fixes Office 2003 document lockout bug
Microsoft has fixed a problem in Office 2003 that prevented the software from
opening documents saved using its access control technology.
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Amazon's data center outage reads like a thriller
When an Amazon Web Services data center lost power early Wednesday, the details
about the event trickled out over Amazon's operations status board. Performance
monitoring firms offer services designed to get ahead of such problems.
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Preston Gralla: Is Ray Ozzie on the way out at Microsoft?
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is a brilliant technologist who has
not achieved anything approaching brilliance in his time at Microsoft. And now
an influential tech analyst and friend of Ozzie's says he believes that Ozzie
may be on the way out at Microsoft, sooner rather than later.
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