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InternetNews March 25, 2010	IE8, Firefox, Safari, and iPhone All Get Pwned As expected, security researchers found exploits in all of the targeted platforms in a contest that put browser security to the test.
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InternetNews April 16, 2010	Apple Patches Pwn2own OS Threat After a security researcher demonstrated a security flaw in Apple's Safari browser running on its Snow Leopard operating system, the company has issued a fix, providing clues as to the nature of the threat.
InternetNews March 11, 2011	Chrome, Firefox Weather Pwn2own, iPhone Falls Hackers succeeded in cracking the defenses of Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry, while Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have survived unscathed.
InternetNews March 2, 2011	Firefox Security Updated Before PWN2OWN On the eve of high-profile hack-fest PWN2OWN, Mozilla updates Firefox to address several security vulnerabilities, just as Google did earlier this week.
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InternetNews March 19, 2010	Google Fixes Its Browser Before Hacker Test Google patches Chrome for eight vulnerabilities that could have left users at risk. The fixes come just as white hat hackers are set to go to town in a vulnerability search contest.
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InternetNews September 25, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Report: Home Users Blind To Hackers According to a new status report from security vendor Symantec, home users are the target of 86 percent of attacks. Financial services ranked second, the target of 84 percent of phishing attempts in the first half of 2006.
InternetNews March 1, 2011	Google Fixes Chrome Flaws on Eve of PWN2OWN Ahead of prominent browser hacking contest, Google pushes out an update that addresses at least 19 security issues, following closely on another recent batch of security fixes.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Money For Vista, IE Bugs VeriSign's iDefense Labs has kicked off its Vulnerability Contributor Program, a challenge to find remote arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Vista and Internet Explorer 7.0. VCP will pay $8,000 for the first six confirmed vulnerabilities.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Jim Wagner	Code Exec Bugs Hit Windows Microsoft's mum on the Windows vulnerabilities since it still hasn't released a patch for them.
InternetNews March 26, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	Is IE8 Already in Need of a Security Patch? Microsoft confirmed it is looking into a potentially dangerous security hole in newly shipped Internet Explorer 8, but played down as speculation that the shipping version of IE8 is at serious risk of attack.
InternetNews September 17, 2010	Are PC Security Flaws on the Wane? New survey from HP Tipping Point finds that 2006 was a high water mark for security vulnerabilities, and that the sheer volume of flaws has since been on the decline.
InternetNews March 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS Microsoft has the fewest holes and was fastest at plugging them, according to Symantec's security report.
InternetNews July 26, 2010	Microsoft Updates Bug Reporting Process Extending an olive branch to security researchers, Microsoft says it will provide new mechanisms to make it easier to report vulnerabilities.
InternetNews September 9, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Updates for Media Vulnerabilities Be careful what you listen to on your PC. Hackers may want to get it.
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InternetNews March 30, 2010	Microsoft Says IE's Defenses Not Unbeatable Microsoft touts 'defense in depth' as an effective deterrent after a white hat hacker last week demonstrated a complete takeover of Windows 7 running Internet Explorer 8.
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InternetNews March 31, 2011	Report: Nearly Half of Vulnerabilities Left Unpatched IBM's X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report details a 27 percent rise in vulnerabilities, with nearly half left unpatched by year's end.
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Bank Systems & Technology July 22, 2007 Nancy Feig	Bank's IT Security Vulnerability Growing Improvements in overall security have been achieved in most industry sectors, but the financial services industry has seen an increase in the average number of IT vulnerabilities, according to to a study.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Malware Thrives Despite Improved Security: IBM Security researchers at IBM's X-Force find 6,601 new software vulnerabilities in 2009, down 11 percent from last, but that hasn't stopped hackers and phishers from finding new ways to rip off consumers.
InternetNews March 22, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner	Apple Plugs Pwn2own OS X Flaw A week after being exploited, Apple fixes OS X flaws, though iOS could still be at risk.
Wall Street & Technology June 12, 2007 Anne Rawland Gabriel	T. Rowe Price Adopts Intrustion-Prevention Systems From TippingPoint The investment management firm thwarts malware and pleases Sarbanes Oxley auditors with the adoption of an intrusion-prevention system from TippingPoint.
BusinessWeek August 22, 2005 Grow & Hamm	From Black Market To Free Market Frustrated computer-security firms are offering to buy tips from the very hackers who bedevil them.
InternetNews November 17, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Irked With Security Firm's IE Alert Secunia says XP SP2 users are at risk from new Internet Explorer vulnerabilities.
InternetNews April 2, 2010	Mozilla Rushes Out Fix for Firefox Hack When white hat hackers point out flaws in your product, it's for your own good and you should take advantage of it before the bad guys do.
InternetNews July 7, 2010	Hackers Snipe Back in Microsoft Security Row Bruised by Microsoft's criticism dismissing the work of third-party security researchers, a band of hackers has begun a campaign to publish proof-of-concept vulnerabilities in the software giant's products.
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Hackers Change Course A new SANS 2005 Top 20 list of Internet vulnerabilities shows a shift in what attackers are going after. And it's not just operating systems anymore.
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InternetNews April 13, 2004 Jim Wagner	Microsoft Releases Flurry of 'Critical' Patches Monthly patches for April include plugs for three critical vulnerabilities, including holes in Outlook Express and later versions of IE.
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InternetNews May 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft Patches Critical Exchange, Flash Holes Microsoft released three patches - two deemed critical - covering vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange, Flash and Windows.
InternetNews October 14, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Rates Patched Flaws by Exploitability Patch Tuesday addresses 20 vulnerabilities, while Microsoft for the first time reveals its take on how exploitable each may be.
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Insurance & Technology May 14, 2005 Michael Cohn	7 Myths About Network Security While hacker tools are growing more sophisticated and automated, many organizations have a false sense of security about their own data and networks. Take a look at these security myths to see if your data is as secure as you think it is.
InternetNews October 17, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Oracle Patches 51, Updates Vulnerability-Scoring System Oracle's October Critical Patch Update addresses 51 vulnerabilities spread across the company's product portfolio.
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Report: Threats Coming from all Sides A Symantec study shows that the number of software security flaws has leveled off over the past year. That sounds like good news until you find out that it's leveled off at seven new vulnerabilities a day, or 2,636 a year.
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InternetNews April 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Issues Critical Fixes to Windows, Apps Microsoft issues eight alerts cover a variety of OS, Internet and application vulnerabilities.
InternetNews October 20, 2004 Jim Wagner	'Drag-and-Drop' IE Flaw Persists Microsoft officials confirmed the existence of two vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer 6.0 that affect all versions of Windows, including Windows XP Service Pack 2 users.
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