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• 28 October 2008

• News: Hackers use Google to get sensitive data

  Hackers are employing search engines such as Google when attacking web applications that hold sensitive data, says a security expert.

• News: Windows 7 & Windows Azure explained

  Microsoft revealed a significant shift in its strategy this week, introducing two new and drastically different Windows products at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles

• News: Security scare for T-Mobile G1 'Google phone'

  Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators say they've discovered a security flaw in the Google Android browser that could make users of phones with the browser vulnerable to attack.

• 27 October 2008

• News: Eightfold increase in malicious spam

  The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times during July and September this year, says Sophos.

• News: Web users don't know how to report illegal content

  Over three quarters of web users have stumbled across disturbing content on the net but have no idea how to report it, says the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

• News: New EU platform helps users report child porn

  The European Commission has pledged €300,000 to create a pan-European alert platform where people can report internet child porn material on websites.

• News: Hackers rush to exploit critical Windows bug

  Hackers have a few new ways to take advantage of the critical Windows bug Microsoft revealed last week.

• 25 October 2008

• News: Use Google's Gmail to fight all spam

  When it comes to spam, there are plenty of different ways to fight this email annoyance. Tools like MailWasher and Spam Assassin are great at clearing you inbox of irrelevant and useless emails, but we've found another solution: Gmail.

• 24 October 2008

• News: Passport RFID tags open to snooping

  A security researcher claims RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the US are vulnerable to snooping and copying.

• News: Attack code for 'critical' Windows bug emerges

  New attack code has surfaced which exploits the critical Windows flaw Microsoft revealed yesterday

• News: Concern over botnet-based click fraud attacks

  The incidence of click fraud, the bane of the highly profitable search advertising business to which Google owes its success, fell slightly in the third quarter, but remains a serious problem.

• 23 October 2008

• News: Microsoft rushes out critical Windows patch

  Microsoft is set to rush out an emergency security patch for Windows users today.

• 22 October 2008

• News: Software pirates 'favour XP over Vista'

  Microsoft claims software pirates prefer Windows XP to Windows Vista.

• 21 October 2008

• News: Judge orders Google to provide info on Gmail user

  Google has been ordered to disclose the IP address of a Gmail user.

• News: Online job hunters at risk of ID fraud

  Online job seekers are happily sending out personal information such as date of births and passport number when applying for jobs, which could be intercepted by cybercriminal.

• News: Govt loses 3,500 security passes over 7 years

  The government has lost in the region of 3,500 security passes in the past seven years, according to new figures.

• News: Keystrokes 'can be logged through walls'

  Hackers can identify keystrokes using the electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is pressed, security researchers warn.

• 20 October 2008

• News: Nicolas Sarkozy is victim of online bank fraud

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become a victim of cybercrime after hackers stole money from his personal bank account.

• News: 75% of kids 'disturbed' by pics online

  As many as 75 percent of children have seen images online which have 'disturbed' them, says the NSPCC.

• News: US man charged for DOS attack on Scientology site

  An 18-year-old New Jersey man will plead guilty to the January online attacks that took down the Church of Scientology's website, US federal prosecutors said on Friday.

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