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• 18 July 2008

• News: Slow progress on UK's email-tracking database

  No decision has been made on the creation of a database, which would contain details of the phone calls, emails and internet use in UK.

• News: BlackBerry vulnerability alert

  RIM has warned users and corporate administrators of a critical vulnerability in a component of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server that could be used to hack their company's computers.

• News: Deadly Trojan evades security software

  Limbo 2, a new custom-built trojan guaranteed to continually evade the top ten security software products on the market, is causing havoc on the net.

• 17 July 2008

• News: Survey says 11% of kids have online sex chats

  11 percent of children have had a sexually explicit conversation online reports a survey by The Carphone Warehouse.

• News: Nigella Lawson's website hit by malware

  Domestic Goddess and celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has become the latest victim of internet hackers.

• News: Facebook leaks members' birthday details

  A glitch in a test version of Facebook's website inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.

• News: AOL spammer gets 30 months in prison

  A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.

• 16 July 2008

• News: Economic gloom leads to rise in illegal software

  Most British businesses are risking prosecution by turning to unlicensed software in a bid to cut costs, according to a survey conducted by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast).

• 15 July 2008

• News: BT claims first with 802.11n Home Hub

  BT claims to have become the first UK ISP to offer 802.11n wireless technology as standard in its routers.

• News: Researcher says Intel chips open to hack

  Security researcher Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker could target flaws in Intel's chips to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

• News: Microsoft Access threat escalates

  An easy-to-use toolkit used to hack computers has now been updated to take advantage of an unpatched security vulnerability in Microsoft's software, which could mean attacks will intensify, according to vendor Symantec.

• 14 July 2008

• News: UK businesses ban IM over security concerns

  Nearly three quarters of UK businesses have banned the use of instant messaging (IM) because of security concerns reports instant messaging firm, ProcessOne.

• 10 July 2008

• News: Storm worm exploits US/Iran tensions

  The authors of Nuwar – also known as the Storm worm – are exploiting the escalating political tensions between the US and Iran to encourage users to download the malware, according to McAfee Avert Labs.

• News: ZoneAlarm users lose internet access

  Some ZoneAlarm users were cut off from the internet after installing one of the security updates issued by Microsoft on Patch Tuesday, according to online message forums.

• News: HSBC fraudster gets nine years in prison

  A 25-year-old former banks worker has been sentenced nine years jail for a failed £70m electronic fraud.

• 09 July 2008

• News: Europe could cut off illegal file-sharers

  An amendment to a telecommunications law, which has been approved by theCommittee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), could see illegal file sharers in Europe disconnected from the net.

• News: Nine 'important' updates released by Microsoft

  Nine vulnerabilities in Windows, Exchange, SQL Server and Microsoft's Domain Name System (DNS) server and client software have been fixed in the company's monthly round of 'Patch Tuesday' updates.

• News: Symantec warns Word users of new exploit

  Symantec has warned that hackers are taking advantage of what appears to be a new bug in Microsoft's Word software. A note on the security vendor's website says the company has seen attackers exploiting "what is possibly an undisclosed vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word".

• 08 July 2008

• News: Access users warned over ActiveX exploit

  Microsoft has warned that cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database program in a new online attack.

• 07 July 2008

• News: Free AVG software updated to tackle web overload

  AVG is upgrading the LinkScanner component of Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 following reports that the security suite was placing heavy demands on the websites it scans.

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