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InternetNews August 5, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Critical Flaws Spoil Opera Tune Opera updates its flagship browser to plug a series of potentially serious security holes.
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InternetNews November 2, 2005 Tim Gray	P2P Attacks Up; IM Hits Down Akonix Systems said its research team tracked 22 new attacks on Peer-to-Peer networks in October, a 19 percent increase over September.
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InternetNews May 9, 2005 Tim Gray	Two Holes Poke Firefox Veneer Mozilla's Firefox web browser has two flaws that allowed a malicious site to execute arbitrary code.
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InternetNews February 25, 2005 Tim Gray	Mozilla Updates Firefox Firefox 1.0.1 addresses numerous security vulnerabilities and approximately 40 other browser fixes.
InternetNews December 6, 2004 Tim Gray	Phishing Grows with Holiday Shopping Spike Attacks jumped 80 percent in November and now target the workplace.
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Real Phishing Tool Probes User Gullibility Now you can find the weakest point of security in your company: your staff. Core Security Technologies has updated its CORE IMPACT software to test an internal infrastructure against phishing attacks.
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InternetNews June 25, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Malware Hacker Attack Linked to Spammers Experts warn that a highly sophisticated malicious hacker attack could turn millions of PCs into spam zombies. Infected IIS web servers are spreading the malicious software to Internet Explorer users.
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