The results of a hacking contest at the DEFCON conference shows that the largest U.S. corporations have a lot to learn. "If any of these targets had hired us to do a social engineering audit, we would have failed them," an organizer said. 

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Google is planning to overhaul its main privacy policy in an effort to make the document more readable and usable for normal people. In addition, Google also is eliminating privacy policies for some of its individual products and services, which it deemed redundant.

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The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4 address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more built-in network security as well as some new potential security threats. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]

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Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams. Read the full article. [The Register]

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According to the researcher who helped take down Mariposa, the operators who purchased the bot software from the man known as "Iserdo" and then built Mariposa, for some reason didn't opt for the feature, which he offered for 200 euros, even though it would have increased their potential profits. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]

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Starting tomorrow, a little-known group of security researchers will kick off a month of bug disclosures that target unpatched vulnerabilities in software from Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple and others. Read the full article. [Computerworld]

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Compromised Twitter accounts have been used to post links to an exploit portal that poses as a download site for an update to TweetDeck, the popular micro-blogging client software package. Read the full article. [The Register]

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Alureon rootkit is back, and has acquired the ability to hijack computers running 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, proclaimed security researcher Marco Giuliani. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]

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Organized cyber thieves stole more than $600,000 from the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa earlier this month with the help of dozens of unwitting co-conspirators hired through work-at-home job scams, at least one of whom was told the money was being distributed to victims of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]

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