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• 30 July 2008

• News: Neosploit online crime kit goes out of business

  Cyber criminals have removed an attack kit from the web because its too expensive compared to other kits said security analysts at RSA's FraudAction Research Labs.

• News: DNS patch slows BIND and Windows Server systems

  The DNS patches that were released to quash a critical flaw have slowed the servers running the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software and have had an adverse effect of some versions of Windows Server.

• 29 July 2008

• News: IBM: 94% of browser flaws exploited within 24 hours

  According to IBM, 94 percent of browser vulnerabilities are exploited within 24-hours of the flaw being highlighted.

• News: Four critical RealPlayer patches available

  RealNetworks has issued four critical patches for several versions of its RealPlayer running on Windows, Linux and Apple's Mac OS X.

• News: IT managers failing to monitor telecom fraud

  Businesses are underestimating how much they could be affected by telecoms fraud, even though the potential losses could be huge, according to Damovo.

• 25 July 2008

• News: Fake Facebook profile author fined £22,000

  A social networker who set up a fake Facebook profile and posted false information has been fined £22,000.

• News: Mozilla patches nine Thunderbird flaws

  Mozilla has released patches to fix nine security vulnerabilities in Thunderbird.

• News: Fujitive 'spam king' shot dead

  Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, apparently after killing his wife and three year-old daughter in his home town of Bennet, Colorado, the US Department of Justice has announced.

• News: Online banking fraud falls despite phishing surge

  New figures from the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) show that fraud losses for online banking have dropped by one third.

• News: Hackers launch attack code for DNS flaw

  Hackers have released an attack code for the flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) software that sends messages between computers on the internet.

• 24 July 2008

• News: Security flaw in iPhone's Mail and Safari apps

  The 3G iPhone's email application and Safari web browser are vulnerable to attack from phishers and spammers, a researcher has warned.

• 23 July 2008

• News: McAfee: SMBs are naive to security threats

  Small businesses have a naïve attitude to PC security reports anti-virus software manufacturer McAfee.

• News: Convicted 'Spam King' gets 4 years

  Robert Soloway has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for his spamming activities.

• News: Kaspersky denies hacker hobbled its website

  The defacement of one of Kaspersky's partner websites over the weekend occurred while the site was under construction and offered no data to steal, a senior company official claimed on Tuesday.

• 22 July 2008

• News: Bath residents tracked by Bluetooth

  The residents of Bath are being tracked by Bluetooth technology without their knowledge.

• News: Microsoft releases Windows Home Server fix

  Microsoft has released an update to Windows Home Server that fixes a data-corruption problem some users were having with the software.

• News: Kaspersky website defaced by hacker

  Security company Kaspersky Lab's Malaysian website was defaced on Saturday along with one of its online shopping sites, according to Zone-H, an organisation that documents such attacks.

• 21 July 2008

• News: O2 in MMS message privacy blunder

  Hundreds of pictures sent by O2 customers in MMS messages were able to be viewed online through a simple Google search.

• News: Dangerous malware infects via P2P music

  Music fans running Windows are being targeted by new worm-like malware that attacks those who download tracks from peer-to-peer (P2) networks.

• News: MoD admits to losing 658 laptops since 2004

  The number of laptops and USB sticks containing classified and restricted data lost by Ministry of Defence (MoD) since 2004, is much higher than first originally thought.

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