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National Defense October 2009 Jean & Erwin	Research Detects Spamming Attacks Researchers at Microsoft have developed a system to detect botnet attacks on Web email providers
InternetNews September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
InternetNews September 9, 2009	Windows 7 Won't Include Zero-Day Flaw: Microsoft Microsoft agrees hacker found a dangerous bug but claims it doesn't affect shipping versions of Windows 7.
InternetNews September 8, 2009	Did Windows 7 Get Its First Zero-Day Exploit? How soon will it take before hackers start finding holes in Windows 7? The wait may be over.
InternetNews September 8, 2009	WordPress Bloggers Fall Prey to 'Clever' Worm Bloggers losing data and peace of mind on outdated versions of the popular blogging software.
InternetNews September 4, 2009	Old Scam Is New Again on Facebook Security experts warn that people need to be more cautious when responding to urgent messages from friends.
InternetNews September 2, 2009	Malware Capitalizes on California Wildfires Macs and PCs are under attack as concerned netizens search for information about the fires.
InternetNews August 28, 2009	New Trojan Snags Skype Calls on Windows PCs Trojan.Peskyspy beats Skype encryption through Windows API attack. How serious is the threat?
InternetNews August 27, 2009	Twitter Said to Suffer Security Flaw Web developer claims Twitter users vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.
InternetNews August 27, 2009	IBM's X-Force Report Praises Sun for Fast Fixes Security report on trends in vulnerabilities, threats, spam, and phishing finds Sun has passed Microsoft in terms of reporting and fixing OS problems.
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