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• 25 September 2008

• News: Update repairs 11 Firefox 3.0 bugs

  Mozilla has fixed 11 vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0, more than half of them labelled ‘critical', and fixed 14 flaws in the older Firefox 2.0.

• News: Cisco fixes several router security flaws

  Cisco has issued a set of security patches for the Internet Operating System (IOS) software, used to power its routers and switches.

• News: Fake Windows warnings continue to trick users

  Psychologists at North Carolina State University have found that computer users struggle to distinguish between fake Windows warning messages and the real thing.

• 24 September 2008

• Opinion: 80% of UK users don't trust businesses with data

  Nearly four out of five people in Britain believe their personal information is unsafe with commercial websites and businesses. And they think that those responsible for losing data should be hung drawn and quartered. String 'em up!

• News: BT's Phorm trials get police approval

  Controversial advertising-targeting firm Phorm and UK ISP BT won't be investigated by police for covertly tracking broadband customers' surfing habits in 'secret' trials last year, according to reports.

• News: BullGuard launches BullGuard Internet Security 8.5

  BullGuard today released BullGuard Internet Security 8.5, the latest version of its internet security suite.

• News: 'Cybercrime' ISP back online in the US

  Pressure from computer security researchers may have knocked controversial US ISP Intercage offline, but not for long.

• News: Federal grand jury investigates Sarah Palin hack

  A federal grand jury investigation into the compromise of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has apparently concluded its first day of meetings without an indictment.

• News: Microsoft to kill Office 2003 SP2 support

  Microsoft is to stop supporting Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) in just three weeks, continuing its policy of dropping support for an Office service pack a year after it releases its successor.

• 23 September 2008

• News: 'Untrusted' ISP booted off internet

  The lifeline linking notorious US ISP Intercage to the rest of the internet has been severed.

• Opinion: Phoney 'AntiVirus 2008' codec blackmails users

  Security software firm PC Tools is reporting that 'surprisingly high numbers' of users have been duped by a dodgy codec named: "multycodecupgr.7.<20xxx>.exe". The codec proports to be a free malware scanner, but instead plants fake malware warnings on PCs, in order to extort money for a product named AntiVirus 2008.

• News: Adobe Flash 10 to fix clipboard bug

  Adobe said it will soon release a patch for a bug in Flash that has been used for more than a month by attackers to poison Mac and Windows users' clipboards with URLs to malicious sites.

• 22 September 2008

• News: McAfee to buy Secure Computing for $465m

  McAfee has agreed to buy network security specialist Secure Computing in a deal worth around $465m.

• Opinion: Eugene Kaspersky: 'no such thing as 100% secure software'

  Despite being the co-founder of one the decade's most successful security software vendors, Eugene Kaspersky doesn't think software alone can ever be a silver bullet for cybercrime.

• News: Hotmail and Gmail may be open to 'Palin hack'

  Yahoo Mail isn't the only webmail service that could be duped into giving up someone else's account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into US Governor Sarah Palin's email last week.

• 19 September 2008

• News: Democrat rep's son suspected of Sarah Palin hack

  The 20-year-old son of a democratic state representative has apparently claimed responsibility for breaking into US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account.

• News: New lost laptop scandal exposes company directors

  The government's laptop security policies are once again in the spotlight, after the Insolvency Service revealed that a laptop containing personal data on directors of 122 bankrupt companies has been lost.

• 18 September 2008

• News: Brad Pitt tops celebrity malware website league

  Brad Pitt is the top celebrity malware target according to McAfee, which says anyone entering his name in a search engine now has a one in five chance of finding a malware-hosting site instead.

• News: Apple iPhone 'game' contains Windows Trojan

  Apple iPhone users are the latest target of hackers trying to infect Windows PCs, according to security firm Sophos.

• News: Hackers break into Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account

  Hackers claim to have gained access to US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account and published some of its contents on the Wikileaks website.

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