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• 01 April 2008

• News: Hacked Vista laptop with attack code on eBay

  The winner of a recent hacking contest is offering the computer he broke into for sale on eBay, possibly with the Microsoft Vista attack code he used intact.

• News: Kiwi teen pleads guilty to $40k botnet & adware scam

  A teenager from New Zealand has pleaded guilty to all charges for his part in attacking the University of Pennsylvania's computer system and in a global adware scheme.

• 31 March 2008

• News: Adobe Flash update will tackle web flaw

  Adobe is working on an update to its Flash Player software that will address a widespread vulnerability found on hundreds of thousands of websites.

• News: Over 1m websites hit by malicious HTML hack

  More than a million web pages, including many well-known sites, have been hit the growing web threat highlighted by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month.

• News: Linux defeats hackers, but Vista & Mac OS X fall

  A Linux-based Sony Vaio remained undefeated during the CanSecWest conference's three-day hacking contest, giving proponents of open-source bragging rights over Vista and Mac fans.

• 28 March 2008

• News: Apple MacBook Air hacked in two minutes

  Apple's MacBook Air was hacked in just two minutes at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest, with former National Security Agency employee Charlie Miller walking away with a $10,000 prize.

• News: Websites still exposed to patched Flash bug

  Two months after Adobe patched a serious flaw in its Flash development software, there are still hundreds of thousands of web pages serving up buggy Shockwave Flash (.swf) files that could be exploited by hackers, according to a Google researcher.

• 27 March 2008

• News: Computer games to get film-style ratings

  Film-style ratings should be given to video games reports a government investigation into the effects of video games and the internet.

• News: Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws, 5 critical

  Through its updated version of its open-source browser, Mozilla has patched 10 vulnerabilities, half of which were marked as 'critical'. The new Mozilla Messaging Inc spin-off, however, was not able to provide a matching update to its Thunderbird e-mail client, which shares five of the Firefox flaws that were fixed.

• News: Finjan exposes stolen credit card supermarket

  Security firm Finjan has uncovered a website supermarket for stolen card data. `

• 26 March 2008

• News: Hackers exploit PCs with unpatched Excel app

  Symantec has spotted a website that tries to exploit computers lacking one of the recently issued patches for versions of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program.

• News: Microsoft leaves bug unpatched for three years

  Microsoft has admitted it failed to patch bugs in its Jet Database Engine despite knowing of the exploit as far back as 2005.

• News: Home Office considers new e-crime unit

  The Home Office is "considering" funding a proposed e-crime unit following a meeting with representatives from the Association of Chief Police Officers.

• 25 March 2008

• News: Excel users urged to patch exploit

  Excel users have been urged to immediately apply a patch released earlier this month that tackles attack code that exploits a bug in Microsoft's spreadsheet application.

• 24 March 2008

• News: Windows PCs open to new Word hack

  Microsoft has warned that cyber criminals may be taking advantage of an unpatched flaw in the Windows operating system to install malicious software on a victim's PC.

• 20 March 2008

• News: Botnet builder faces ten years in prison

  A 21-year-old man could face up to 10 years in prison in the US after pleading guilty to installing advertising software on PCs located around Europe without permission.

• News: Gordon Brown fears growing cyber-threat

  Gordon Brown said the government will "modernise its interception capability" to tackle the growing threat of state-sponsored cyberattacks.

• 19 March 2008

• News: 90% don't trust government with data

  Around 90 percent of UK adults don't trust the government with their personal data, according to a survey by IT security supplier Data Encryption Systems (DES).

• News: Apple Mac OS X update includes 40 fixes

  Apple has released over 40 fixes for its Mac OS X OS in a new security update.

• 18 March 2008

• News: VLC media player flaw could expose PCs

  A flaw in the open-source VLC media player could allow an attacker to execute harmful code on a PC.

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