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29 September 2008
News: UK kids most at risk from online dangers

British kids are more at risk from sexual predators and other web dangers that their European counterparts, says the London School of Economics.
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
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
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.
News: Adobe Flash 10 to fix clipboard bug

Adobe said it will soon release a patch for a bug in Flash that has been used for more than a month by attackers to poison Mac and Windows users' clipboards with URLs to malicious sites.
22 September 2008
News: McAfee to buy Secure Computing for $465m

McAfee has agreed to buy network security specialist Secure Computing in a deal worth around $465m.