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In fight against botnets, warning victims is half the battle

Symantec shows off next-gen enterprise AV

Yahoo shareholders fail to condemn censorship

Google cancels 'freedom' party to appease eBay

Game on for Halo 3 beta

Gartner: Consumer products threaten corporate security

Electronics manufacturers contend with doubling recycling

Konami to sell skincare software for Nintendo DS

New geolocation service could help track cyberthieves

Cyberattack fools you once, evades detection

TransMedia follows Google gears into desktop apps

Monday, 18th June 2007

Headlines

	Linux community looks past Microsoft
	In fight against botnets, warning victims is half the battle
	Symantec shows off next-gen enterprise AV
	Yahoo shareholders fail to condemn censorship
	Google cancels 'freedom' party to appease eBay
	Game on for Halo 3 beta
	Gartner: Consumer products threaten corporate security
	Electronics manufacturers contend with doubling recycling
	Konami to sell skincare software for Nintendo DS
	New geolocation service could help track cyberthieves
	Cyberattack fools you once, evades detection
	TransMedia follows Google gears into desktop apps

Good morning,

At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in the USA last week, a cross section of the Linux community signaled that it's time to get back to work on the open source operating system and move past Microsoft's patent deals and claims of infringement.

Also making news, combing through IP addresses is one of the biggest jobs ever for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI} in the USA. Investigators with the FBI tracked down the million victims while working on five cybercrime cases, three of which have resulted in charges being filed.

Sarah Falson
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Internet

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USA - Combing through IP addresses is one of the biggest jobs ever for the FBI in the USA.
By Sharon Gaudin

Security

Symantec shows off next-gen enterprise AV
USA - Symantec has released a public beta of its Endpoint Protection 11 enterprise grade antivirus suite previously known by its Hamlet codename.
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Finance

Yahoo shareholders fail to condemn censorship
USA - Yahoo shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to stop censoring its Chinese customers and support human rights.
By Iain Thomson

Government/Law

Google cancels 'freedom' party to appease eBay
USA - The online auction site reportedly canceled its search ad purchases in response to Google's planned promotion of Google Checkout at an eBay event.
By Thomas Claburn

Convergence

Game on for Halo 3 beta
GLOBAL - Testers clock up more than 12 million hours of online gameplay.
By Clement James

Security

Gartner: Consumer products threaten corporate security
GLOBAL - Consumer-oriented technologies and services, like blogs, IM and MP3 players, are creating huge holes in enterprise safeguards, a Gartner report warns.
By Sharon Gaudin

Hardware

Electronics manufacturers contend with doubling recycling
USA - EIA officials urged the US Congress Wednesday to enact federal laws that would eliminate the challenges manufacturers face.
By K.C. Jones

Convergence

Konami to sell skincare software for Nintendo DS
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Security

New geolocation service could help track cyberthieves
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By Larry Greenemeier

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Cyberattack fools you once, evades detection
GLOBAL - The attacks represent a "quantum leap" for hackers in terms of their technological sophistication and pose a serious challenge to the IT community, one security firm reports.
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TransMedia follows Google gears into desktop apps
USA - The company plans to release software that will let Linux users synchronize their files with remote copies on its Glide hosted file sharing and storage service to other platforms.
By Thomas Claburn