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• 28 November 2008

• News: Spam canned as Estonian ISP kills Srizbi botnet

  An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts.

• 27 November 2008

• News: Spam zombie PCs coming back to life

  Computers that are part of the Srizbi botnet - which by some estimates sent nearly half of the world's spam - are apparently becoming active again.

• News: Microsoft pushes emergency Windows patch

  Microsoft has warned Windows users to apply an emergency patch released in October in a bid to tackle a rise in attacks on a vulnerability in Windows that could trigger a worm infestation on networks.

• News: K9 Web Protection: How to keep the kids safe online

  Of the various perils that face the intrepid contemporary web explorer, one of the greatest is the one faced by parents: what are their children looking at and who are they communicating with online?

• 26 November 2008

• News: Hoax Google Orkut message links to Trojan

  Google's social networking site Orkut has been used to spread a malicious Trojan, says Websense.

• News: Spam levels rise again after McColo takedown

  Just weeks after McColo's shutdown sent global spam volumes plummeting, researchers are in disagreement as to extent of the long-term effect on junkmail levels of the hosting-firm's demise.

• 25 November 2008

• News: Lenovo Remote Disable kills laptops by text

  Lenovo plans to announce today a new technology allowing laptop users to shut down their machines remotely by sending a text message

• News: Stolen credit cards net cybercriminals £3.3bn

  Cybercriminals have access to over $5bn (£3.35bn) through stolen credit card details says Symantec.

• 24 November 2008

• News: Hackers use hoax tax cut emails for ID theft

  Hackers are using the pre-budget tax cuts expected to be announced by the Chancellor of Exchequer as a way of extracting personal information that could be used for identity theft out of the web users, says Sophos.

• News: Microsoft removes 1m fake antivirus apps

  Microsoft claims to have removed fake security software from nearly a million PCs during nine days this month, following the release of an anti-malware tool delivered as part of November's round of Patch Tuesday updates.

• News: Tories want 'urgent review' over 53 lost gov't PCs

  The government has lost 53 PCs in the last year, according to the Conservative party.

• News: Warning over 'dramatic rise' in Windows attacks

  Windows users have been warned of a sharp jump in online attacks that appear to be targeting a recently patched bug in Microsoft's operating system.

• 21 November 2008

• Opinion: The web's credit crunch sucker punch

  I'm beyond tired of hearing about ‘economic meltdown'. For those of us in a semi-permanent state of self-imposed penury (you know, journalists), the end of the financial world as we know it can be of only vague interest.

• 20 November 2008

• News: Security warning for Windows Vista users

  An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorised code on a PC.

• 19 November 2008

• News: Hospital virus sparks state of emergency

  Three London hospitals lost email and internet access yesterday after a virus attack.

• News: RemoteSpy keystroke-logger banned in US

  Software that secretly records keystrokes on a PC has been banned in the US following a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

• News: 500,000 'bot' PCs rescued as 'Spam' ISP taken offline

  A huge botnet consisting of 500,000 compromised PCs was crippled when US-based 'spam ISP' McColo was taken offline last week, according to Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks.

• News: Microsoft kills OneCare; plans free antivirus

  Microsoft plans to exit the paid-for antivirus software market, killing off Windows Live OneCare and announcing a free replacement called Morro

• 18 November 2008

• Opinion: Security vendors predict malware armageddon

  November 24 has been dubbed "black Monday" by security software firms, who reckon that day will see a peak in the spread of information-stealing malware.

• Yoggie HyPC ExpressCard-based computer

  Yoggie is to launch a computer that runs off a removable ExpressCard. The Yoggie HyPC will be primed with a complete operating system preinstalled on the ExpressCard's memory.

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