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  • 03 March 2008

  • News: Facebook is the easiest site to hack

    Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites are the biggest target for hackers and cyber criminals, according to Fortify Software.

  • News: Travel chaos to hit Cebit IT exhibition

    The start of the world’s largest IT trade exhibition - Cebit - face a morning of transport chaos on the opening day of the show.

  • 29 February 2008

  • News: Spam King prepares for criminal trial

    Serial spammer Robert Soloway will get his day in court next month when his criminal trial kicks off in Seattle.

  • 28 February 2008

  • News: Windows Vista update spotting activation cracks

    Microsoft this week started sending Windows Vista users an update that identifies illegal copies of the OS installed with cracks that the company will disable when it distributes Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) in two weeks.

  • News: Stolen Home Office laptop bought on eBay

    Police are investigating the discovery of a stolen Home Office laptop and confidential encrypted data disk in a Bolton computer repair shop.

  • News: PayPal: Apple Safari vulnerable to phishers

    PayPal is recommending that both Windows and Apple Mac users ditch Apple's Safari web browser. PayPal believes that Safari is vulnerable to online fraud.

  • 27 February 2008

  • News: Microsoft rubbishes 'Cold Boot' encryption hack

    A Microsoft product manager last week downplayed the threat posed by research that shows how attackers can inspect a "ghost" of computer memory. He said that users can keep thieves from stealing encrypted data by changing some settings in Windows.

  • News: BullGuard seeks gamers to trial security software

    Ever fancied becoming a software tester? BullGuard is offering gamers the chance to do just that by trialling the BETA version of its gamers security software and be in with a chance to win a free subscription to the final product.

  • News: Spammers abuse webmail 'out-of-office' features

    McAfee says spammers are abusing the 'out of the office' auto-respond feature found in webmail services to make their messages appear to come from legitimate addresses.

  • 26 February 2008

  • News: YouTube outage highlights web security threat

    Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the internet's design that could one day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts.

  • News: Trend Micro buys UK encryption firm Identum

    Identum's Private Post desktop and gateway server products can be used to encrypt messages. The server software will automatically encrypt messages, depending on the user's corporate security policy, and can be used alongside existing email and compliance products.

  • 25 February 2008

  • News: Goolag offers Google hacking for dummies

    The hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow has released a tool that should make Google hacking a little easier for novices.

  • News: HMRC phishing attack offers fake tax refund

    McAfee has uncovered a phishing attack that targets victims of HM Revenue and Customs data scandal, with a fake offer of a tax refund.

  • News: Vista SP1 blocks outdated security suites

    Microsoft has warned that several prominent anti-virus programs – including products from BitDefender, Trend Micro and Check Point - must be updated before they will work with the soon-to-be-released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1).

  • 22 February 2008

  • News: Police raid breaks up $45m hacking ring

    Quebec provincial police conducted raids on Wednesday, breaking up a hacking ring that police say is responsible for an estimated CDN$45m in damage to computer systems.

  • 21 February 2008

  • News: Microsoft & Apple reported for UK licence abuse

    The National Consumer council has reported 17 software developers to the Office of Fair Trading for using catch-all software licences that give customers "less protection than when they buy a cheap biro".

  • News: Opera slams Mozilla over irresponsible disclosure

    Opera has patched three bugs in its web browser, and taken a swipe at Firefox developer Mozilla for irresponsibly revealing one of them on the web before giving its competitor a chance to release a fix.

  • 20 February 2008

  • News: Security software wipes data from stolen laptops

    BackStopp, a laptop-protection system that automatically wipes a data from the hard disk of machines taken from authorised locations has been launched by Virtuity.

  • 19 February 2008

  • News: Firefox & Opera users warned of bitmap exploit

    Firefox and Opera users have been warned of a flaw in the way the browsers handle an image file that could allow an attacker to see what websites they've visited.

  • 18 February 2008

  • News: Microsoft snubs Polish sex pseudonym

    Microsoft has refused to credit a hacker who published code that exploited a recently patched bug in Microsoft Office 2003 because his pseudonym refers explicitly to a form of sexual intercourse… in Polish.

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