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• 02 November 2007

• News: Dangerous PDF spam on the rise again

  PDF spam, the summertime nuisance that flooded inboxes in early August and then quickly disappeared, is back and worse than ever.

• 01 November 2007

• News: Cyber jihad planned for November 11

  Security experts are saying that a reported al-Qaeda cyber jihad attack planned against Western institutions should be treated with scepticism.

• 31 October 2007

• News: Storm Worm's pump-and-dump assault continues

  The Storm Worm botnet network may be shrinking in size, but it has managed to send out 15 million of those annoying audio spam messages in October, according to antispam vendor, MessageLabs.

• News: McAfee buys ScanAlert for $51m

  McAfee is to acquire ScanAlert, a web application security vendor, for $51m. ScanAlert, which was founded in 2001, runs a paid service that scans websites daily looking for security vulnerabilities and checks if e-commerce applications have up-to-date patches.

• 30 October 2007

• News: Malware warning over trial software hacks

  Those tempted to download software cracks to unlawfully activate software from a trial mode into a paid mode have been warned that they may be unknowingly installing hacking tools onto their system.

• News: Microsoft denies OneCare modifies AU

  Microsoft has defended Windows Live OneCare, claiming that while the security tool does modify Windows' overall patch options during installation, it informs users that their settings may be changed.

• News: Windows users warned of Kodak exploit

  A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system.

• 27 October 2007

• News: Interview: fraudster Frank Abagnale talks IT security

  Frank Abagnale, whose life was the subject of the Steven Spielberg movie, Catch Me If You Can, recently gave a keynote presentation on his life as an imposter and fraudster at the Storage Networking World conference in Grapevine, Texas. He said that the biggest security risk in any organisation is the people who work there. Abagnale also believes that technology has made fraud a lot easier.

• 25 October 2007

• News: Mozilla warns of bugs in latest Firefox update

  Mozilla is working on a new Firefox fix to repair five bugs introduced in last week's security update.

• News: Norton 360 boosts Symantec's Q2

  Two years after its acquisition of enterprise software vendor Veritas, Symantec's consumer division remains the company's fastest-growing product line.

• 24 October 2007

• News: Symantec warns of malicious Adobe PDF exploit

  Symantec has warned users of Adobe's Reader and Acrobat software that a malicious PDF document is targeting the programs, just hours after Adobe patched the products.

• News: ID thieves have fighting chance of getting off

  If you're a convicted identity thief, you've got about a 50 percent chance of avoiding jail time.

• News: Crime gangs cause five-fold increase in malware

  Malware targeting PCs with Trojans, password stealers and keyloggers, among other things, registered a five-fold increase in the first half of 2007, according to research released by Microsoft at the RSA Security conference in London.

• 23 October 2007

• News: Adobe fixes Acrobat & Reader PDF flaw

  Adobe has tackled a flaw which exposed Windows XP PCs to exploits arriving in malicious PDF files.

• 22 October 2007

• News: Three 'critical' patches among 10 Firefox updates

  Mozilla has patch 10 bugs in its open-source Firefox browser, including three rated as 'critical'. and released the refreshed versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

• 19 October 2007

• News: RealPlayer users warned of dangerous exploit

  Symantec is warning RealPlayer users to be extra careful while surfing the web.

• 18 October 2007

• News: HP launches 'secure printing' technology

  HP claims its new Secure Print Advantage security technology ensures printed documents get to the right people and protects against malware.

• 17 October 2007

• News: Warning over dangerous Skype malware

  Security analysts are warning of another malicious software program masquerading as an installer file for Skype.

• News: Facebook to police porn following NY probe

  Facebook is to boost efforts to police pornography and to prevent harassment and inappropriate behaviour on its social-networking site, settling a consumer fraud investigation by New York State Attorney General (AG) Andrew Cuomo.

• 16 October 2007

• News: BSA demands new cybersecurity legislation

  The BSA (Business Software Alliance) has called on the US Congress to pass legislation that would address new types of cybercrimes and increase funding for law enforcement.

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