Researchers offer new way to avoid bogus Web sites

August 27, 2008 By JORDAN ROBERTSON , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they've built will make it harder for criminals to hit that jackpot.

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