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Biometrics

Viisage to Buy Iris-Recognition Company (Federal Computer Week, 02/06/06)

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Cybercrime

Yahoo May Have Helped Jail Another Chinese User (IDG News Service, 02/09/06)

Spanish Hacker Sentenced to Two Years in Jail for DDoS Attack (Sophos, 02/07/06)

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Cybersecurity

Cyber Storm Brewing For Homeland Security (TechWeb News, 02/07/06)

Perspective: The Left and Right Hands of Cybersecurity (CNET News.com, 02/08/06)

Homeland Security Readies International Cyber-Wargame (TechWeb News, 02/07/06)

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Data Security

Honeywell Blames Ex-Employee in Data Leak (IDG News Service, 02/07/06)

NIST Issues Guidelines for Data Removal (Government Computer News, 02/06/06)

Do We Really Care About Storage Security? (ComputerWorld, 02/07/06)

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Encryption

Decrypting Encryption Myths (CIO Update, 02/08/06)

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Hacking

Islamist Hackers Attack Danish Sites (The Register, 02/09/06)

Effects of Domain Hijacking Can Linger (eWeek, 02/08/06)

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Information Security

French Bank Accounts Targeted by Russian Virus Gangs (ComputerWeekly, 02/09/06)

Microsoft Enters Consumer Security Battle with Symantec (TechWeb News, 02/07/06)

Report Suggests Security Practices Lag Behind Requirements (SearchSecurity.com, 02/08/06)

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Information Technology

Federal Agency Urges Slow Approach to the Next Internet (Network World, 02/08/06)

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Malicious Code

Microsoft Says Kama Sutra Overblown (TechWeb News, 02/07/06)

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NetOps

Military to Get Mobile Comms (Federal Computer Week, 02/08/06)

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Network Security

The Future of Security Gets Fuzzy (eWeek, 02/06/06)

Giving Your Computer its Flu Shot: Five Simple Ways to Protect Your Computer from Viruses, Spyware, (openPR, 02/08/06)

Beyond Firewalls and IPS: Monitoring Network Behavior (Enterprise Systems Journal, 02/07/06)

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Operating Systems

Microsoft OneCare Coming in June (IDG News Service, 02/07/06)

Apple's in the Eye of Flaw Finders (SecurityFocus, 02/08/06)

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Operational Threats

Current Scanning Activity as Reported By CERT/CC (CERT Coordination Center, 02/09/06)

Current Scanning Activity as Reported By the Internet Storm Center (Internet Storm Center, 02/09/06)

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Operational Vulnerabilities

Attack Code Published for Firefox Flaw (IDG News Service, 02/07/06)

Firefox Exploit Emerges (TechWeb News, 02/08/06)

Microsoft Warns of Fresh IE, Windows Flaws (SearchSecurity.com, 02/08/06)

Microsoft Reports Two Bugs, Third Identified (IDG News Service, 02/08/06)

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Security Tools

Why Wait For Hackers? (eSecurity Planet, 02/07/06)

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Spam

Consumers Urged to Boycott Spammers in Run-Up to Valentine's Day (Sophos, 02/09/06)

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Spyware

Spyware Triples During 2005 (TechWeb News, 02/07/06)

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