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• 06 May 2008

• News: Yahoo filters search results with McAfee SiteAdvisor

  Yahoo is integrating McAfee's SiteAdvisor into its search results.

• 05 May 2008

• News: Save time on 22 crucial PC tasks

  Because time is precious we've rounded up 22 smarter, more efficient ways to make short work of common tech tasks, from reinstalling Windows to crushing spyware to setting up a website.

• News: The 30 biggest technology myths exposed

  We've rounded up the 30 most common technology myths and misconceptions and explained why they are, in fact, fiction.

• 03 May 2008

• News: The future of antivirus software revealed

  What does the future hold for signature-based antivirus? We've got some expert opinions on the subject.

• 01 May 2008

• News: Researchers break into Kraken botnet

  A group of security researchers yesterday claimed to have infiltrated one of the world's largest botnets. 3Com's TippingPoint researchers said they could snatch control of compromised machines from the hackers.

• News: Symantec's 'best products' produce strong profits

  Security software giant Symantec yesterday reported year end revenue ahead of expectations. In a statement, Symantec CEO John Thompson called the company's current offerings "the strongest product portfolio we've had in years."

• 29 April 2008

• News: GTA IV launches as Trojan targets fans

  The long-awaited Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV for PS3 and Xbox 3600 went on sale worldwide today.

• News: Losing personal data to become a criminal offence

  Losing personal data may soon become a criminal offence.

• News: Malware now comes with copyright protection

  Some Malware developers have taken to copyrighting their work, reports Symantec.

• News: Microsoft: 'We police the internet'

  Microsoft yesterday discussed its efforts to help secure the internet during an event with law enforcement agents on its campus.

• News: Microsoft develops botnet-hunting tool

  Microsoft has developed a tool to help law enforcement officials prosecute botnet operators.

• News: Vista & XP users open to new QuickTime flaw

  GNUCitizen claims to have found a vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime multimedia player that can be exploited remotely to compromise Windows Vista PCs upgraded to Service Pack 1 (SP1), as well as XP SP2.

• 28 April 2008

• News: New Kraken bot variant discovered

  PC Tools today revealed that it has identified and disclosed the source code for a new variant of the Kraken bot, also known as 'Bobax'.

• News: Microsoft blamed for 500,000 web-page hack

  Attacks on legitimate web domains, including some belonging to the United Nations that began earlier this week, have expanded dramatically, security researchers said, with hundreds of thousands of pages hacked by Friday.

• 26 April 2008

• News: PC Security: your questions answered

  At PC Advisor we're deluged with your PC security questions. So here's our guide to getting rid of spyware, shrug off spam, and staying safe on unsecured public networks.

• 25 April 2008

• News: Spam bots target Google's Blogger service

  Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations, according to security vendor Websense.

• 24 April 2008

• News: Buggy Microsoft update labels Skype as adware

  Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft's security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake.

• 23 April 2008

• News: 'Pro-China' CNN cyberattack back on

  The Pro-China cyber attack against CNN's website – which was apparently called off last week – is back on, according to network security analysts.

• 22 April 2008

• News: Criminals turn to web and dump malicious email

  Cybercriminals dropped malicious email in favour of web-based attacks during the second half of last year, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.

• News: $10k MacBook Air hack is 11 months old

  MacBook Air hacker Charlie Miller - who won $10,000 at CanSecWest's hacking contest last month - exploited a flaw that had been publicly disclosed nearly a year before the contest, it has been revealed.

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