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Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
Ryan Naraine: An innocent looking demo application called Photo of the Day delivers daily an image from National Geographic. But it also creates a botnet of Facebook users launching denial-of-service attacks.
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Ryan Naraine: Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw
Ryan Naraine: Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.

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Forget Seinfeld. Can gurus help the Windows brand?
Mary Jo Foley: A day after launching the first ad in its $300 million consumer-focused make-over campaign, Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the pipeline.
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Sam Diaz Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?
Mary Jo Foley: First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
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Dell may dump its factories
Larry Dignan: Dell is reportedly trying to dump its manufacturing facilities across the globe in a turnabout that indicates it has no discernable edge in making PCs anymore.
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Microsoft's WGA finally earns passing grade
Ed Bott: There's no question that Microsoft's performance on WGA and Vista validation has improved significantly in the past year. But it's still only earning a C+.
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Cracking open an Amazon Kindle
Gallery: The Kindle may be the first e-book reader to gain broad acceptance. Watch as we crack open the Kindle's case and examine the circuitry inside.
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Chrome's java-script poses challenge to Silverlight
The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be java-script, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts.
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