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• 29 September 2008

• News: 'Spamming ISP' taken offline, again

  Accused of being home to online scammers, San Francisco internet service provider Intercage has been unplugged from the internet... for the second time this week.

• News: Warez pirate gets three years probation

  A Florida man was sentenced to three years probation on Thursday for helping run a server used for illegally sharing computer programs and files under copyright.

• News: Microsoft to sue 'scareware' security vendors

  Microsoft and Washington state are cracking down on scammers who bombard computer users with fake warning messages in hopes of selling them useless software.

• 28 September 2008

• News: 50 great tools to speed up your Windows PC

  Make Windows go like a bomb, boost your browser and clear out your registry with these tools - most of which are free. If you want a faster system, you could buy a new PC. Or you could read this article instead.

• 27 September 2008

• News: Arts+Labs to tackle 'net pollution' piracy

  A group of technology and entertainment heavyweights is undertaking a public relations campaign to dissuade consumers from illegal file sharing, something the group calls "net pollution".

• 26 September 2008

• News: Neosploit hacker kit is back on the web

  Neosploit, the notorious hacker exploit kit, has returned to the web and is responsible for a dramatic increase in attacks, a security researcher has claimed.

• News: Firefox password patch expected next week

  Mozilla has announced it will be releasing a patch to stop a password flaw in its Firefox 3.0 web browser.

• News: Apple patches 30 six-month old Java bugs

  Apple this week patched almost 30 Java vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operatimg system. The Apple fixes came up to six months after Sun Microsystems, Java's developer, fixed most of the same flaws for other operating systems.

• 25 September 2008

• Opinion: 120 idiots give up password for £5 M&S voucher

  Don't believe a word about the world-weary, cynical ways of Londoners. When an independent research company this week approached 200 random people on the gold-paved streets of the capitol, 60 percent of them were prepared to divulge their PC's password. Can they all have just got off the train? From Norfolk? In the 1950s?

• 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.

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