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• 29 April 2008

• News: Losing personal data to become a criminal offence

  Losing personal data may soon become a criminal offence.

• News: Malware now comes with copyright protection

  Some Malware developers have taken to copyrighting their work, reports Symantec.

• News: Microsoft: 'We police the internet'

  Microsoft yesterday discussed its efforts to help secure the internet during an event with law enforcement agents on its campus.

• News: Microsoft develops botnet-hunting tool

  Microsoft has developed a tool to help law enforcement officials prosecute botnet operators.

• News: Vista & XP users open to new QuickTime flaw

  GNUCitizen claims to have found a vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime multimedia player that can be exploited remotely to compromise Windows Vista PCs upgraded to Service Pack 1 (SP1), as well as XP SP2.

• 28 April 2008

• News: New Kraken bot variant discovered

  PC Tools today revealed that it has identified and disclosed the source code for a new variant of the Kraken bot, also known as 'Bobax'.

• News: Microsoft blamed for 500,000 web-page hack

  Attacks on legitimate web domains, including some belonging to the United Nations that began earlier this week, have expanded dramatically, security researchers said, with hundreds of thousands of pages hacked by Friday.

• 26 April 2008

• News: PC Security: your questions answered

  At PC Advisor we're deluged with your PC security questions. So here's our guide to getting rid of spyware, shrug off spam, and staying safe on unsecured public networks.

• 25 April 2008

• News: Spam bots target Google's Blogger service

  Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations, according to security vendor Websense.

• 24 April 2008

• News: Buggy Microsoft update labels Skype as adware

  Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft's security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake.

• 23 April 2008

• News: 'Pro-China' CNN cyberattack back on

  The Pro-China cyber attack against CNN's website – which was apparently called off last week – is back on, according to network security analysts.

• 22 April 2008

• News: Criminals turn to web and dump malicious email

  Cybercriminals dropped malicious email in favour of web-based attacks during the second half of last year, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.

• News: $10k MacBook Air hack is 11 months old

  MacBook Air hacker Charlie Miller - who won $10,000 at CanSecWest's hacking contest last month - exploited a flaw that had been publicly disclosed nearly a year before the contest, it has been revealed.

• News: Businesses urged to protect customer data

  Businesses are being urged to make data protection one of their key concerns following the release of details of security breaches.

• 21 April 2008

• News: Microsoft botches 'critical' antipiracy update

  An update for Microsoft's antipiracy tool for its Office software suite hit a snag last week when it was distributed too widely and under a 'critical' label that's usually reserved for important software fixes.

• News: UK phishing attacks double in Q1

  Phishing attacks on U.K. consumers have more than doubled for the first quarter of this year, according to Apacs, the U.K. payment association.

• News: Windows rights bug affects XP and Vista

  Most versions of Windows are susceptible to an "elevation of privilege" bug that, if exploited, could give attackers significantly greater access to the compromised machine, the software giant has warned.

• News: Pro-China hackers cancel CNN cyberattack

  A group planning a cyberattack against CNN's website cancelled plans on Saturday citing widespread awareness of the attack.

• 18 April 2008

• News: 18 simple, free fixes for your Vista or XP PC

  Whether your PC is truly ailing or has a classic case of hypochondria, PC Advisor has 18 simple, free ways to ensure your Windows XP or Vista system is raring to go

• News: Online banks won't support users of insecure PCs

  Online banking customers may find themselves unable to recoup any losses on their account if they fail to keep their PC up to date with anti-virus and anti spyware.

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