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InternetNews September 22, 2006 Andy Patrizio	VML Exploit Growing In Severity The VML exploit is growing quickly and a mass email attack could be just days away, warn security experts who are tracking the problem.
InternetNews September 21, 2006 Andy Patrizio	IE Vulnerability Spreads To Email The VML exploit found earlier this week could prove to be a severe problem because it can take initiative without requiring any action on the part of the user. But so far Microsoft does not appear to be a big rush to fix the problem.
InternetNews September 20, 2006 Roy Mark	AG Wants ISPs to Hold Data Longer U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales renewed his call for greater data retention by Internet service providers as part of the Department of Justice's campaign against online child pornography.
InternetNews September 20, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Keeping a Soldier Connected Web 2.0 Style My college roommate is fighting in Iraq, but sometimes he doesn't seem so far away. Like when his fantasy team crushes mine.
InternetNews September 19, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Latest IE Zero Day Has XML Designs Yet another zero-day exploit takes aim at Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Hackers Attack ActiveX Flaw in IE IE 5.01 and 6 users warned to disable ActiveX while the Microsoft investigates.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Firefox Hits Seventh Heaven Mozilla has released its seventh update this year, Firefox 1.5.0.7, which fixes four critical security issues in the popular open source browser.
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	U.S. Unprepared for Internet Attack Recovery Cyber security experts cite lack of leadership from government and cooperation from private sector.
Fast Company September 2006 John Rosenthal	L.A.'s Online Safety Net Non-profit Healthy City's Web site brings mapping technology to Los Angeles' social services.
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