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Gold hits record near $1,500 after S&P cut

Gold prices rallied to a record high $1,497.20 an ounce on Monday after Standard & Poor's downgraded its credit outlook for the United States and as investors worried about debt in the euro zone and inflation in China.
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Computer hacker sent to prison for 24 months

A computer hacker was sentenced to 24 months behind bars on Friday for launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers worldwide and directed them to attack media outlets that carried stories about him, federal prosecutors said.
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French probe espionage at defense firm unit: report

France's intelligence services have unearthed a case of suspected industrial espionage at an engine subsidiary of French aerospace and defense firm Safran, Le Monde newspaper said in its weekend edition.

Ten major routes a malicious code takes in targeted attack

The year 2010 witnessed significant targeted attacks like Hydraq (a.k.a. Aurora) and Stuxnet. While Stuxnet is a very complex threat, not all malicious code requires this level of complexity to breach an isolated network, Symantec said. It has listed out 10 propagation mechanisms of the malicious code employed in a targeted cyber attack.
Gold bars are displayed at a branch of Mitsubishi Materials Corporation in Tokyo

Gold Bullish, Silver Called A Classic Bubble

The Gold Price rose early Monday in London, nearing last week's high of $1439 per ounce as energy prices led a surge in commodity prices and Silver Bullion jumped 1.9% to fresh 31-year highs.

LizaMoon: What Is It and How to Avoid It (VIDEO)

Lizamoon is the name of an Internet-based scareware attack which plays on fears of computer viruses and trust in web security software. Its ultimate aim is to get a user provide credit card information.
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What is Lizamoon, the viral scareware that infected four million websites?

A fast-spreading SQL injection attack that illegally peddles a bogus scareware has been breaking anti-virus barriers and compromising millions of websites, besides defrauding unsuspecting victims. The news of this attack was brought out by Websense Security Labs in its blog last week. Websense said its Threatseeker Network identified a new malicious mass-injection campaign which it named LizaMoon.
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Malicious attack hits a million Web pages

More than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation.
Samsung spyware a false alarm

Samsung Keylogger Scare A False Alarm

Reports of keylogging software installed on Samsung-built laptops are wrong, the company says, but a case where anti-virus software picked up a harmless foreign language folder.
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Cuba says blogger Yoani Sanchez part of cyberwar

Cuba attacked dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez in a nationally televised program on Monday, accusing of her being part of a cyberwar against the communist island by the United States and other enemies.
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Gold Unwinds Weekly Drop as Real Interest Rates Plunge

Prices to Buy Gold rose above $1418 per ounce Friday lunchtime in London, reversing this week's earlier 2.4% drop as crude oil fell and world stock markets rose further after news of an immediate cease-fire by the Gaddafi regime in Libya, prompted by the United Nations' no fly zone agreement.

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