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Authorities close in on South Korea hackers

Researchers uncover command server in UK

Pharmaceutical spam continues to rise

Discount drugs now responsible for three quarters of junk mail

Malware writers take aim at new ActiveX vulnerability

Microsoft warns of new attack dangers

Malware writers take aim at new ActiveX vulnerability

Microsoft warns of new attack dangers

Conficker still dominating attack landscape

Botnet accounted for two-thirds of attack traffic in Q1

Government honours veterans of Bletchley Park at last

Surviving veterans of the code-breaking facility to receive badge of honour

Governments warned of further DoS attacks

Security experts track indications of second assault later today

Police probe News of the World phone tap claims

Guardian report alleges widespread use of criminal methods to get stories

McAfee warns of new Mac malware attack

'MacCinema' program loads systems with a Trojan

Microsoft warns of new ActiveX security threat

Unused control could be targeted for attack

Hackers take aim at ColdFusion development tool

New attacks target flaws in two components

Google sees new spam players on the horizon

Report speculates on emergence of new hotbeds

Botnets pushing up spam loads

Over four-fifths of junk messages come from infected machines

Celebrity deaths touch off spam frenzy

Warnings sounded over Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett spam

New malware threat targets Twitter users

Malicious email attachment masquerades as message notification

Hacked URL service puts users at risk

Two million Cligs URLs redirected in weekend attack

Security experts uncover one-stop botnet marketplace

Site allows trading of malware, data and networks of infected PCs

Google responds to security concerns over online apps

Criticism pushes search firm to introduce HTTPS as standard

Hacktivists take aim at Iranian elections

Twitter and blogs being used to co-ordinate distributed denial-of-service attacks

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