Alas, Darya Gudkova, a Kaspersky Lab analyst, said that spam is not going the way of the dinosaurs just yet.

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In their third quarter IT Threat Evolution report, Kaspersky Lab analyst Yury Namestnikov said that those two Apple programs appeared on the top 10 list of most vulnerable programs for the first time, beating out Microsoft products.

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Speaking at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in Puerto Rico yesterday, President and Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann emphasized that Silent Circle will never include law-enforcement access mechanisms for its products.

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Cassie Pietrzak, an analyst at Phoenix Idea Lab, a nonprofit marketing firm in Erie, Pa.

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