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24 April 2007
News: Encryption shame of UK businesses

Just 9 percent of UK firms have an enterprise-wide encryption strategy, research has revealed.
News: Quicktime enables Apple Mac hack

The vulnerability that put $10,000 into the pocket of a hacker during a Mac hacking contest is in Apple's QuickTime media player, according to researchers.
News: Top UK PC security threats revealed

Security software firm Webroot has pinpointed the most common forms of malicious security threats in the UK, picking out the Trojan Downloader Zlob as the most commonly found concern.
News: Blogs infested with porn, hatred and malware

The internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested.
News: Microsoft fails to patch 'critical' bug

Microsoft's security team is still working on a patch for a critical bug in the company's server software.
23 April 2007
News: City of London gets ubiquitous Wi-Fi

London is home to a new Wi-Fi network that’s not only one of Europe's largest but also among the first to give users mobile coverage similar to a cellular network.
News: Google Calendar in privacy overhaul

Google is strengthening privacy warnings in its Calendar application, amid concerns that users are disclosing more information than they mean to
News: Hackers infect PCs with Virginia Tech email

Spammers and hackers are using the slayings at Virginia Tech as a gory lure to infect computers with malicious software, security experts noted on Thursday
News: UK group pushes to monitor e-voting

A UK group is pressing for access to monitor local elections next month, where a range of e-voting and counting technologies will be used.
News: Satnav systems open to hackers

Two security experts have discovered a way to inject false messages - some amusing and others potentially frightening - into car satellite navigation systems.
News: Hacker uses Safari to crack Mac OS X

A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a $10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
News: US Gov't ID theft plan coming today

The US government will release its plan to combat identity theft in the US today.
20 April 2007
News: Online govt elections are here to stay

Joseph Kiniry believes e-voting is risky and current e-voting software is substandard. So it may come as a surprise that the computer science lecturer at University College Dublin works on open-source voting software.
News: Web's most popular sites under threat

Eight out of ten websites contain common flaws that can allow attackers to steal customer data, create phishing exploits, or craft a variety of other attacks, a security company reported yesterday.
News: PowerPoint overtakes Word in hack threat

More hackers attack PowerPoint than Microsoft Word, according to a report from MessageLabs.
19 April 2007
News: Single-target spam aims at Office

Micro-managed attacks that consist of one email targeting one person are up more than 10 times over last year's levels, according to message security company Messagelabs.
News: Brits designing Euro web crime portal

British computer security experts are designing a web portal to gather more precise statistics on Europeans victimised by internet crime, an area that remains difficult for collecting accurate data.
News: Microsoft planning Windows Vista upgrade

Microsoft has started taking beta-tester applications for the next update to Windows, an upgrade to the Windows Media Center functionality within Vista.
News: Microsoft DNS flaw poses limited threat

While Microsoft has not yet said when it will release a patch to fix an under-attack flaw in its server software, most properly protected servers should not be vulnerable.
18 April 2007
News: Barclays launches online banking chip-and-pin

Barclays today announced to introduction of chip-and-pin for online bank accounts. From late 2007, Barclays customers will begin using handheld 'PINsentry devices' when sending payments to third parties from their online bank account.