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• 21 June 2010

• News: Google Wi-Fi data contained emails & passwords

  Wi-Fi datamistakenly collected by Google's Street View cars included passwords and email, says the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL).

• News: Security software takes 'two days' to block new malware

  New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet.

• News: Firefox add-on encrypts Facebook and Twitter

  Firefox users worried about Internet eavesdropping are being offered a new way to encrypt their interaction with a range of popular websites, including Facebook and Twitter.

• 19 June 2010

• News: Employee monitoring: when IT is asked to spy

  Does your IT manager know exactly what you do on your PC throughout the day? If you answered no, then you might be surprised.

• 18 June 2010

• News: Privacy groups call for Facebook privacy changes

  Ten privacy groupshave penned an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking for changes to the social networking to give users more control over their own data.

• News: Microsoft & eBay launch fraud alert service

  Microsoft, eBay and Citizens Bank have launched a new Internet fraud alert service designed to allow them to better share information about compromised accounts with each other in an effort to better fight online fraud.

• 17 June 2010

• News: Government officials banned from using iPhones

  Government ministers are not allowed to use Apple's iPhone but BlackBerries are fine, presumably for security reasons, according Health Secretary Simon Burns.

• 16 June 2010

• News: 3.7 billion phishing emails sent in the last 12 months

  Cybercriminals sent 3.7 billion phishing emails over the last year, in a bid to steal money from unsuspecting web users, says CPP.

• News: Windows XP zero-day flaw targeted by hackers

  Hackers are now exploiting the zero-day Windows vulnerability that a Google engineer took public last week, Microsoft has confirmed

• News: Firefox add-on stops advertising cookies

  A browser extension for Firefox has been combined with a set of privacy applications that give users more control over how their personal information is shared online.

• 15 June 2010

• News: Sophos: Facebook failing to tackle likejacking

  More than four in five (95 percent) of web users believe Facebook isn't doing enough to protect social networkers against 'likejacking attacks', says Sophos.

• News: Trend Micro aquires online storage firm Humyo

  Security vendor Trend Micro has acquired online storage firm Humyo.

• News: BBC to restrict devices that receive HD broadcasts

  The BBC will be allowed to restrict the devices that can receive its HD Freeview broadcasts, says Ofcom.

• News: New standards could guide antivirus testing

  A coalition of security companies and researchers has agreed on guidelines for how security software products should be tested, which may help put an end to long-running disputes about different testing methodologies.

• News: Facebook poses mobile working 'security threat'

  Remote staff using Facebook are seen as the biggest security and productivity threat to mobile working, according to research.

• News: Children seek help over cyberbullying

  Nearly three quarters (72 percent) of children claim they wouldn't participate in cyberbullying, says Symantec.

• 14 June 2010

• News: No more IE patches for Windows XP SP2 users

  Unless Microsoft releases an emergency IE update in the next 31 days, PC users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) have seen their last security update for Internet Explorer.

• News: Cyberciminals exploit those looking for porn on the web

  Web users looking on the net for porn are likely to have out-of-date software that can be exploited, making them an attractive target for cybecriminals.

• News: iPad email attack 'legal and ethical', say hackers

  The hackers who harvested an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad 3G owner e-mail addresses defended their actions Friday as "ethical" and said they did nothing illegal.

• News: Google Wi-Fi data gathering 'not illegal'

  Google is under global scrutiny for its "accidental" gathering of wi-fi data while driving about photographing the world with its Street View camera cars. In the court of public opinion Google's actions cross ethical boundaries, but whether or not the activities were illegal depends on the laws in place for the given jurisdiction.

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