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  • 11 January 2008

  • News: Botnets make 2007 a bumper year for spam

    Global spam reached rates as high as 96 percent of all email traffic during 2007. And, according to a report from Commtouch, botnets helped keep spam output at consistently high levels throughout the year.

  • News: Sexy Christmas spam doubles Storm worm

    A combination of the long Christmas holiday and some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam emails helped criminals behind the Storm worm more than double their network of infected PCs, security experts say.

  • 10 January 2008

  • News: 'Nearly all Windows PCs' have an unpatched app

    Nearly all Windows computers are running at least one unpatched application and about 40 percent contain 11 or more programs that are vulnerable to attack, a vulnerability-tracking company said yesterday.

  • News: 'One glitch per 1,000 lines of code' in open-source projects

    A bug-fixing scheme sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open-source software projects

  • News: Researcher invents 'printer spam'

    Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without. He's found a way to spam your printer from the web.

  • News: Storm botnet makes phishing assault on UK

    Identity thieves appear to be using part of the Storm botnet to conduct phishing attacks on customers of two UK-based banks

  • News: Vista users warned of malicious 'gadgets'

    Windows Vista users have been urged to download a new security tool that automatically disables suspicious or malicious 'gadgets', the small applets that mimic the 'widgets' popular on Mac OS X.

  • 09 January 2008

  • News: iPhone malware attacks modded iPhones

    The first Trojan for Apple's iPhone has been discovered. iPhone enthusiast site Modmyifone.com first uncovered the virus, which was later confirmed by security research company F-Secure.

  • News: Microsoft starts 2008 by fixing just 3 bugs

    Yesterday marked the first 'Patch Tuesday' of 2008, and Microsoft eased itself into the new year by releasing just two security updates that patch three vulnerabilities in Windows.

  • News: Rootkit uses old trick to hide, infects 5,000

    A new type of malicious software has recently emerged. Called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, the malware uses a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.

  • 08 January 2008

  • News: Tens of thousands of websites hacked

    A mass automated SQL injection attack has compromised tens of thousands of websites. Although some of the infected websites have been cleaned, others continue to serve visitors a malicious script that tries to hijack their PCs using multiple exploits, security experts said over the weekend.

  • News: Experts warn world about Nugache worm

    The infamous Storm worm may be perceived as the world's most dangerous botnet, but security experts say a worm called Nugache could be more of a threat.

  • News: Microsoft to patch Windows password flaw

    Microsoft will today patch a Windows flaw that could give attackers access to passwords on a victim's system.

  • News: Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet vulnerable to hackers

    Because of the way critical flight systems are linked with those used by passengers, the US Federal Aviation Administration has warned that the electronics of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet could be vulnerable to hackers.

  • 07 January 2008

  • News: Dutch media players sold with worm

    A batch of digital media players sold by a Dutch importer over Christmas have been infected with a worm.

  • News: CA website attacked by malware authors

    Security software vendor CA's website was hacked last week. Malware writers hacked into part of CA.com and redirected visitors to a malicious website hosted in China.

  • 04 January 2008

  • News: Firefox attacked by spoofing bug

    A serious flaw in the way Firefox handles log-ons could be used by identity thieves to dupe users into disclosing passwords, according to Aviv Raff, an Israeli researcher best known for ferreting out browser flaws.

  • News: Facebook hit by massive adware hack

    An adware-distribution scheme targeting Facebook is considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular social-networking site.

  • News: Researchers warn of Wi-Fi virus outbreak

    Criminals could target unsecured wireless routers to create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas such as London or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University in the US and the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Torino, Italy.

  • News: Microsoft to issue two Windows patches next week

    Microsoft will issue just two security updates next week, the company said yesterday.

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