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		<title>Justice Dept Charges Megaupload Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement WASHINGTON—Seven individuals and two corporations have been charged in the United States with running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works through Megaupload.com and other related sites, generating more than $175 million in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McAfee Labs Predicts Threats for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McAfee Labs 2012 Threat Predictions Include High-Profile Industrial Attacks, Cyberwarfare Demonstrations and New Hacktivist Targets RISE IN “LEGITIMATE” SPAM AND THREATS TO MOBILE BANKING, VIRTUAL CURRENCY AND EMBEDDED HARDWARE EXPECTED IN THE COMING YEAR SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;McAfee today unveiled its 2012 Threat Predictions report, outlining the top threats that McAfee foresees for the coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! Awarded $610 Million Against Spammers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUNNYVALE, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced it has been awarded a $610 million default judgment against spammers responsible for a fake Yahoo! lottery email scheme. In the scheme, email messages were unlawfully sent to Internet users with the intent of deceiving them into believing they had won a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybercriminals Kick Off Holiday Season by Spreading Malware and Phishing Attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GFI Labs identified numerous scams last month, including cybercriminals posing as the federal government to exploit food stamp recipients CLEARWATER, Fla.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;GFI Software today released its VIPRE® Report, a compilation of the 10 most prevalent threat detections for the previous month. Noteworthy threats in November 2011 included a new Facebook worm; the return of PDF-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC To Provide Refunds to Victims of Bogus Scareware Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting this week, more than 300,000 consumers who were victims of a &#8220;scareware&#8221; scam will receive refunds resulting from Federal Trade Commission settlements with Innovative Marketing and other parties involved in the scheme. Several defendants agreed to surrender more than $8 million total in ill-gotten gains to settle FTC charges that they used deceptive ads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC Offers Online Shopping Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping Online This Holiday Season? FTC Offers Advice on Getting the Best Deal Whether your gift list is ready or you&#8217;re wondering how long you can wait to start your holiday shopping, the Federal Trade Commission has online tips to help you get the best deals. The bottom line: Some extra research can really pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Maturity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest AVG Digital Diaries Installment Reveals Average 11-Year-Old Has “Adult Skills” When it Comes to Technology Advanced Tech Skills Force Tweens to Grow Up Too Fast AMSTERDAM&#8211;In today’s tech-centric society, children, tweens and teens are spending more time online than ever before. To develop a better understanding of how this impacts the lives of today’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McAfee Releases Top Five Tips to Avoid Bad Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maliciously Modified Apps Becoming Popular Vector for Infecting Devices SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;In response to the increasing interest in mobile applications, McAfee is sharing its top five tips to avoid downloading bad apps. While reported mobile malware incidents are still relatively low in number, McAfee Labs is seeing significant growth in the mobile malware threat landscape. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McAfee Warns Consumers of the “Twelve Scams of Christmas”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyber-Scrooges Work Overtime During Holiday Season and on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, New Threats Hit Mobile, Email and the Web SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;‘Tis the season for consumers to spend more time online &#8211; shopping for gifts, looking for great holiday deals on new digital gadgets, e-planning family get-togethers and of course, using online or mobile banking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybercrime risk a perfect storm brewing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Wetware’ a crucial factor in increasingly dangerous cybercrime scenarios AMSTERDAM, 15 September, 2011 – A new report commissioned by the internet security company AVG today reveals how the explosion in size and complexity of global cyber crime, combined with the surprising complacency of younger users, is putting lives at risk. The report, authored by the [...]]]></description>
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