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• 17 October 2008

• News: 56 arrested in FBI cybercrime sting

  A two-year undercover FBI sting operation targeting online fraudsters has netted 56 arrests and prevented millions of dollars in economic losses.

• 16 October 2008

• News: Adobe updates Flash to tackle 'clickjacking'

  Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player software, fixing a critical security bug. The new Flash Player 10 software fixes security flaws in Adobe's multimedia software including bugs that could allow hackers to pull off what's known as a clickjacking attack, wrote Adobe spokesman David Lenoe in a blog posting.

• News: Botnets to attack smartphones in 2009

  The same week one of the world's worst spam operations is being shut down, security researchers are warning the next big threat may not be for PCs at all - but rather for mobile phones.

• 15 October 2008

• News: XP users must update Internet Explorer 6 now

  Microsoft released 11 security updates yesterday, including fixes for critical security bugs in Windows Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Excel and the Microsoft Host Integration Server, which integrates Windows computers with IBM mainframes.

• News: 'Encryption key' challenge to RIP Act fails

  Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled.

• 14 October 2008

• News: Poll: Two thirds of users never change passwords

  A staggering 90 percent of respondents to a PC Advisor poll admit that they don't regularly change their online password.

• News: Hoax M&S voucher email returns

  A fake email that claims to be from Marks and Spencer offering recipients up to £500 in vouchers has resurfaced again, over a year after its first appearance.

• News: Norton, BitDefender & McAfee slammed in study

  Security software suites are doing a poor job of detecting when a PC's software is under attack, according to Danish vendor Secunia.

• News: Warning over fake Windows security alert

  Microsoft has warned that scammers are sending out fake emails that claim to include critical Windows security alerts.

• News: Sarah Palin ordered to freeze Yahoo Mail records

  Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been ordered to preserve email messages in her personal email accounts that relate to state business, according to an Anchorage newspaper.

• 13 October 2008

• News: Virgin Media email unavailable for four days

  A spam attack saw thousands of Virgin Media customers cut off from their email accounts for four days.

• News: Warning letters to deter illegal downloaders

  Three quarters of illegal file sharers would stop if they were warned about their activity by their ISP, says Entertainment Media Research (EMR).

• News: Hackers release fake Microsoft patch update

  Hackers are using Microsoft's upcoming monthly patch release as a way of spreading malware across cyberspace.

• News: Report says World Bank servers were breached

  According to a Fox News report, a number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data might have been compromised in the attacks.

• 11 October 2008

• News: The 8 most dangerous Windows vulnerabilities

  Uncovering and exploiting Windows vulnerabilities has become as sport for many, and in a number of cases, even a career. We've rounded up a list of the worst Windows flaws we've endured since the introduction of Windows 98

• 10 October 2008

• News: Prison sentence for phisher who stole £400k

  A hacker faces 10 years in prision after stealing $700,000 (£413,000) through phishing emails.

• News: Microsoft to overhaul UAC in Windows 7

  Microsoft has admitted that User Account Control (UAC) is a nuisance for Windows Vista users, and has promised to improve the security feature in Windows 7

• News: Four 'critical' Microsoft updates coming next week

  Microsoft will release 11 security updates next week, with four labelled 'critical'.

• 09 October 2008

• News: Symantec to acquire MessageLabs

  Symantec has announced it is to acquire security software provider MessageLabs.

• News: NoScript upgrade stops clickjacking attacks in Firefox

  NoScript, the security add-on for Firefox, has been upgraded to protect against clickjacking.

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