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It's a Crime-filled Week in IT Land (PC World)

                   
yahoo.com
Jul 25, 2008
        
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Nancy Weil, IDG News Service 2 hours, 45 minutes ago In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing. Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to publication of the attack code, there were more twists and turns in the story of the jailed San Francisco network administrator, and a convicted spammer who walked away from a minimum-security prison apparently killed his wife, their young daughter and himself. And, we sadly learned that Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch died-- he inspired countless people with his "Last Lecture" that is a YouTube classic. 1. Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident and DNS attack code out in wild: After a computer security company inadvertently posted details online of a... [read full story]                    

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Top 10: It's a crime-filled week in IT land

infoworld.com
Jul 25, 2008
        

In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing.Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to publication of the...

                   

It's a Crime-filled Week in IT Land

pcworld.com
Jul 25, 2008
        

In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing. Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to publication of the...

                   

It's a crime-filled week in IT land

networkworld.com
Jul 25, 2008
        

In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing. Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to publication of the...