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• 09 April 2008

• News: 'Critical' Windows patch released by Microsoft

  Microsoft issued a critical patch for two vulnerabilities in the core graphics subsystem of Windows, one of eight fixes released on Tuesday as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday series of security updates.

• 08 April 2008

• News: HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details

  Following the recent privacy blunders by the Government, which saw laptops containing thousands of personal details about the UK public falling into the wrong hands, banking giant HSBC has also admitted to losing the personal data of its customers.

• News: Google defends right to hold users' personal data

  Google has defended the length of time its retains web users' data following the release of a report on how European data-protection laws should be applied to web-search services.

• 07 April 2008

• News: Symantec reveals ActiveX bug in Norton range

  ActiveX vulnerabilities in Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security, Norton SystemWorks and Norton 360 could allow hackers to hijack the Windows PCs the programs are supposed to protect, Symantec has warned.

• News: Viruses to top 1m by end of 2008

  Security experts predict the total number of viruses will reach one million by the end of the year, as malware writers create new types of exploits to combat the improved security policies of businesses and consumers.

• 04 April 2008

• News: Hackers place JavaScript attack code on Govt website

  In a sign that the spate of attacks first spotted last month are continuing, a Welsh government website has been hacked to serve up malicious JavaScript.

• News: Talk Talk refuses to shop illegal downloaders

  Charles Dunstone, head of the broadband supplier Talk Talk, has criticised UK music trade body the the BPI, for expecting ISP's to police illegal file sharers.

• News: Sex offenders to be banned from Facebook

  The email addresses of sex offenders may be posted on social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo under new government proposals.

• News: Boom time for online crime, with fewer victims

  Internet crime is netting the bad guys more money than ever, according to a report compiled from more than 206,000 complaints received last year by the US Internet Crime Complaint Center.

• News: FBI: Web fraudsters find men easier to con

  According to a report compiled from more than 206,000 complaints received last year by the US Internet Crime Complaint Center, in 2007 men lost $1.67 to every $1 lost by women in online fraud.

• News: Intel Anti-Theft Technology coming to laptops

  Intel plans to release an anti-theft technology for laptops later this year, adding the feature to its Active Management Technology, which is part of Centrino vPro and allows IT managers to remotely access and configure computers.

• 03 April 2008

• News: Phorm web monitoring 'against the law'

  Phorm may be illegal. The Phorm service soon to be implemented by ISPs that records people's web activity in order to serve them targeted advertisements may violate data protection laws.

• News: BT held secret trials of Phorm

  Over 30,000 BT Broadband users were used to secretly test an online advertising system in two separate tests in 2006 and 2007.

• News: UK children face social-networking danger

  Almost half of all UK children who have access to the web (49 percent) have a profile on a social-networking site such as Bebo, Facebook or Myspace. And around 41 percent of these children are at increased risk because they do not use the provided privacy settings.

• News: Mac users warned of iMunizator 'scareware'

  Security firm Sophos has warned Mac users against downloading and using a Mac OS X application called 'iMunizator', calling the software 'scareware'.

• 02 April 2008

• News: Laptop with Vista attack code removed from eBay

  Shane Macaulay, one of the winners of CanSecWest's hacking contest, has failed in his attempt to sell his winning laptop, complete with Windows Vista attack code, on eBay.

• 01 April 2008

• News: April Fool's Storm worm email attacks PCs

  A new storm worm with an April Fool’s Day theme is targeting the web reports software company PC Tools.

• News: Virgin Media targets illegal music file sharers

  Viring Media has announced it will start cracking down on its customers that are illegally downloading.

• News: IFPI demands £1.2m from P2P site Pirate Bay

  The recording industry wants €1.6m (£1.2m) in damages for copyright infringement from the people behind The Pirate Bay, according to a claim filed Monday by industry organisation IFPI.

• News: DOS traffic accounts for 3% of web messages

  Meaningless packets of information, used in distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) to knock websites offline, account for somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of all traffic on the web, according to Arbor Networks.

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