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• 08 October 2008

• News: Asus Eee Box ships with virus

  The desktop PC version of Asus' popular Eee PC has shipped with a virus in Japan, the company has warned.

• 07 October 2008

• News: British hacker faces 15 years in prison

  A British hacker faces 15 years in prison after launching a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against two US companies.

• 06 October 2008

• News: Symantec Norton Family Safety enters beta testing

  Symantec has developed a new online service - called Norton Family Safety - to protect children from internet dangers.

• News: FAQ: Clickjacking - is your PC at risk?

  A new vulnerability that puts users of every major web browser at risk - clickjacking - has been discovered by security researchers

• 04 October 2008

• News: The 5 best portable password tools

  We've all got hundreds of passwords, whether its to access our online banking facility, to read our emails or even just to get in to our Facebook profile. However, remembering all of the passwords, can be slightly taxing to say the least. While password manager offer a solution, they're no good if you're working from a PC that's not your own with the software loaded on to it.

• 03 October 2008

• News: Web security experts fight to fix TCP/IP bug

  Vendors are now working on patching a critical TCP/IP bug that can bring down many firewalls and operating systems.

• News: Skype denies knowledge of Chinese snooping

  Skype was unaware of a major privacy problem affecting Skype users in China, the company's president said on Thursday.

• 02 October 2008

• Opinion: Your bank doesn't care if you get ripped off

  Viewing your mortgage statement ankle deep in the debris of the world's banking 'system', you may have missed this little gem, but PC Advisor today reported that UK losses from online banking fraud hit £21.4m in the first half of this year.

• News: Online banking fraud losses hit £21.4m

  Losses from online banking fraud have hit a record £21.4m in the first half of 2008 - an increase of 185 percent on the previous year says APACS.

• News: One in five hobble their PC's security settings

  One in five employees has altered the security settings on their PC so they can access unauthorised websites, according to a new survey.

• News: Report: China snooping on Skype messages

  Tom-Skype, a joint venture in China between eBay's Skype unit and Tom Online, has been known to operate a text filter on text chats, but a new report says that the data is stored insecurely and the text messages and records containing personal data can be easily accessed.

• News: Amendments to Computer Misuse Act come into force

  Changes to the Computer Misuse Act, which ensure hackers will receive greater penalties, have come into force in England and Wales.

• News: 'Ransomware' hacker identified

  Police have identified the hacker behind the infamous Gpcode 'ransomware' virus that hit computers in July.

• 01 October 2008

• News: IronKey wipes data from stolen USB drives

  IronKey has launched a web-based security service that will allow IT administrators to wipe or local lost or stolen USB drives.

• 30 September 2008

• Opinion: What is most the important part of your security suite?

  In a world where the number of individual pieces of malware is measured in the millions, security vendors and online crooks are involved in a fast-paced arms race.

• News: MI6 terror suspect photos sold on eBay

  Photographs and confidential documents regarding Al-Qaeda terror suspects thought to belong to MI6 have been found on online auction site Ebay.

• News: Firefox password bug patched ahead of schedule

  Mozilla released the most recent patch for its Firefox web browser ahead of schedule.

• 29 September 2008

• Opinion: Security giants put their heads in the cloud

  Autumn is upon us, and we're deep into the annual security software slugfest, where antimalware vendors large and small try to cram ‘new' products into an already stuffed market.

• News: 'Obama & McCain' videos infected with malware

  Cyber criminals are using videos of US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to infect PCs across the world with dangerous malware, says Webroot.

• News: UK kids most at risk from online dangers

  British kids are more at risk from sexual predators and other web dangers that their European counterparts, says the London School of Economics.

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