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		<title>Safari&#8217;s Private Browsing Stores Some User Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s Safari web browser offers a &#8220;private browsing&#8221; feature, which prevents storage of store browser history, download history, auto-fill entries, Google searches (in the Search field), and cookies. It turns out, though, according to an article on MacFixit, that some data gets recorded. Plug-ins, such as Flash Player, are not affected by Safari&#8217;s private browsing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/15/safaris-private-browsing-stores-some-user-data/</link>
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		<title>Another Mac OS X Server Hack?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, we reported on Tom Yager, a journalist for InfoWorld, who suspected that his Mac OS X server was hacked. Tom has since written about a root exploit he discovered, and now continues discussing this exploit and the effects it has had, turning his server into a spam zombie. Intego&#8217;s researchers believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/15/another-mac-os-x-server-hack/</link>
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		<title>And the Winner Is: Intego VirusBarrier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of MacFormat Magazine, the UK&#8217;s leading Mac publication, has a no-holds-barred test of six Mac antivirus programs, and guess who comes up the winner? Intego VirusBarrier X5! The editors tested six aspects of a half-dozen Mac virus protection program (such as ease of installation, ease of use, level of protection, ease of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/15/and-the-winner-is-intego-virusbarrier/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Office Update Contains Security Fixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1, a major update to Office 2008, which also contains some security fixes that Microsoft says are critical. In Microsoft&#8217;s security bulletin describing the issues, the company says:

&#8220;This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word that could allow remote code execution if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/14/microsoft-office-update-contains-security-fixes/</link>
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		<title>Laptop Thieves Nabbed by .Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kait Duplaga, an Apple store employee, who lives in White Plains, NY, had two of her Apple laptops stolen from her home. Being a savvy Mac user, when Kait found that her Mac was being used (a friend saw her on iChat, showing that one of the computers had logged onto iChat automatically) she went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/12/laptop-thieves-nabbed-by-mac/</link>
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		<title>Adobe Updates Acrobat for Critical Vulnerabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe has issued a security bulletin regarding security updates to &#8220;Adobe Reader 8.1.1 and earlier versions Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 8.1.1 and earlier versions.&#8221; These programs have critical vulnerabilities that could &#8220;cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system&#8221;. A total of eight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/09/adobe-updates-acrobat-for-critical-vulnerabilities/</link>
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		<title>Personal Information Easily Harvested on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is currently the most popular social networking site on the Internet. With the ability to find friends, communicate with them, and play games, the site can be addictive. But the BBC&#8217;s program Click this week showed that your personal information - the information in your Facebook profile - can be harvested easily by applications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/06/personal-information-easily-harvested-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in The Register reminds us that the very first spam e-mail was sent on May 3, 1978, or thirty years ago. Somehow, this anniversary is not much to celebrate. As most Internet users can attest to, spam is rampant; it&#8217;s the true scourge of the Internet. Many users get as many as hundreds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/02/celebrate-the-30th-anniversary-of-spam/</link>
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		<title>Computer Keyboards Dirtier than Toilet Seats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we usually discuss here the type of computer security that affects your data, operating system and personal identity, it&#8217;s time to look at another aspect of security that you may not realize. The British consumer magazine Which has done a study of computer keyboards in a typical London office and found that they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/05/02/computer-keyboards-dirtier-than-toilet-seats/</link>
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		<title>Website Certification Fraught with Difficulties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article on The Register discusses problems with a security vendor&#8217;s certification of hacker-free web sites not being totally safe. The problem with such certification is that, even with daily checks of sites, it&#8217;s very hard to guarantee that any web site remains safe. In this case, the security vendor in question is understating the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.intego.com/2008/04/30/website-certification-fraught-with-difficulties/</link>
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