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  • 01 August 2007

  • News: 'Sleazy' Zango under fire for adware

    An advertising software maker criticised last year by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is under fire again for allegedly not clearly labelling its software and informing consumers what it does on their PCs.

  • News: House of Lords to hear UK NASA hacker's case

    Gary McKinnon, the UK hacker behind what’s been described as the biggest military hack of all time, has won the right to have his case against extradition to the US heard by the House of Lords.

  • News: The Homer Simpson spam scam

    Email scammers are using the success of The Simpsons Movie to trick email users into validating their addresses, so they can then send them more spam.

  • 31 July 2007

  • News: Patch warning for Firefox users

    Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.

  • News: Ransomware secrets reveal single source

    New research from security experts Secure Science Corporation (SSC) suggests the two most prominent ransomware Trojans of recent times could be the work of the same people, or a related group of criminals.

  • 30 July 2007

  • News: Warning over 'critical' Yahoo Widgets flaw

    Yahoo Widgets users were warned last week that the web-based, gadget-like apps feature a critical flaw allowing hackers can use to hijack Windows PCs.

  • 28 July 2007

  • How-Tos: How to battle the botnets

    Botnets - they're dangerous, deceptive, and very difficult to detect and deal with. What's more, according to recent surveys, the botnet threat is growing...rapidly.

  • 27 July 2007

  • News: Microsoft invites 'hot fix' requests via email

    Microsoft says customers can now avoid the hassle of phoning the company’s support lines by requesting a hot fix by email.

  • 26 July 2007

  • News: Firefox threat as hacker posts attack code

    Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorised software on a victim's machine.

  • News: Warning over 30,000 newly infected websites

    Security firm Sophos says the number of infected web pages has soared nearly six-fold since the start of the year

  • News: Porn broker faces DOJ charges

    A US grand jury in Los Angeles has charged a California man with operating an internet-based obscenity distribution business and other offences, the US Department of Justice announced yesterday.

  • News: Warning over Excel-based stock scams

    Spammers are now using Excel files for use in pump-and-dump stock scams.

  • News: PDF spam & image spam hitting UK firms

    Half of the UK's medium to large sized businesses are struggling to deal with image-based spam, as the abundance of such emails grows by the day, according to new research.

  • 25 July 2007

  • News: Sheepish Mozilla admits Firefox hit by IE flaw

    Mozilla's chief security officer has acknowledged that Firefox includes the same flaw that the company called a 'critical vulnerability' in Internet Explorer during a two-week ruckus over responsibility for a Windows zero-day bug.

  • 24 July 2007

  • News: Acer slams 'unstable' Windows Vista

    Windows Vista is riddled with problems and gives users and businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to a report in the Financial Times Deutschland quoting Acer president Gianfranco Lanci.

  • 23 July 2007

  • News: Fox News fault leaks sensitive content

    Security analysts say a gaping security hole in Fox News Network's website revealed file directories and sensitive content, although it appears the problem has been fixed.

  • News: Nintendo Wii exposed to Adobe Flash bug

    Symantec says a recently identified Adobe Flash vulnerability could affect the Nintendo Wii through the console’s Opera internet browser.

  • News: DIY Trojan kit available online

    A do-it-yourself kit for developing and customising Trojan malware has been discovered for sale on the web.

  • 20 July 2007

  • News: Firefox and IE continue fight over zero-day flaws

    Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox executives are both adamant that the other's application is at fault for a recent speight of multiple Windows zero-day vulnerabilities.

  • 19 July 2007

  • News: Death threats over Mac OS X 'worm'

    The author of a Mac OS X worm has received death threats via his or her blog. The furore started earlier this week, when a researcher responsible for the Information Security Sell Out (InfoSec) blog announced a proof-of-concept worm that exploited a Mac OS X vulnerability which Apple missed in a May round of patches.

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