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  • 07 August 2007

  • News: Mozilla retracts four-letter patch pledge

    Mozilla has been forced to retract a pledge attributed to the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within "Ten ****ing Days".

  • News: 'Negligent' Apple fails on Mac OS X patching

    Apple's lackadaisical updating of the open-source components it uses in Mac OS X is inexcusable and "negligent", according to one of the researchers who went public with the first iPhone vulnerability last month.

  • 06 August 2007

  • News: Mozilla vows to patch Firefox flaws in 10 days

    A Mozilla executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days. The move has been interpreted as a statement of intent from Mozilla that it intends to step up its efforts to improve security.

  • News: Nokia licenses Microsoft's DRM software

    Nokia will license Microsoft's PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology. The move should give Nokia service providers a greater choice of copy-protection software.

  • News: MySpace hacker's profile deleted

    A US student who revealed a weakness he had discovered in MySpace has had his profile removed from the social-networking site.

  • News: Mutating javascript malware on the loose

    Hackers are using a new technique to infect desktop PCs via compromised websites, while avoiding antivirus detectors, according to the SANS Institute.

  • News: Websense's HoneyJax lures Web 2.0 malware

    Websense has announced HoneyJax, a threat-detection system designed to spot 'Web 2.0' attacks as they are launched.

  • 03 August 2007

  • News: Huge Russian malware attack imminent

    Trend Micro says a large-scale security attack could be about to launch on the web after its researchers spotted a Russian server loaded with more than 400 different pieces of malware.

  • News: Deletemusic worm threatens MP3 collections

    Security experts have discovered a worm that hunts down and deletes MP3s on infected PCs. The worm is only low risk, although its unusual payload could give a nasty surprise to an ardent music fan. The motivation of the hackers who created it is unclear.

  • 01 August 2007

  • News: Wi-Fi threat to Gmail & Facebook

    Accessing Google's Gmail or the Facebook social-networking site over Wi-Fi could put your account at risk of being hijacked, according to research from security firm Errata Security.

  • News: 'Sleazy' Zango under fire for adware

    An advertising software maker criticised last year by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is under fire again for allegedly not clearly labelling its software and informing consumers what it does on their PCs.

  • News: House of Lords to hear UK NASA hacker's case

    Gary McKinnon, the UK hacker behind what’s been described as the biggest military hack of all time, has won the right to have his case against extradition to the US heard by the House of Lords.

  • News: The Homer Simpson spam scam

    Email scammers are using the success of The Simpsons Movie to trick email users into validating their addresses, so they can then send them more spam.

  • 31 July 2007

  • News: Patch warning for Firefox users

    Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.

  • News: Ransomware secrets reveal single source

    New research from security experts Secure Science Corporation (SSC) suggests the two most prominent ransomware Trojans of recent times could be the work of the same people, or a related group of criminals.

  • 30 July 2007

  • News: Warning over 'critical' Yahoo Widgets flaw

    Yahoo Widgets users were warned last week that the web-based, gadget-like apps feature a critical flaw allowing hackers can use to hijack Windows PCs.

  • 27 July 2007

  • News: Microsoft invites 'hot fix' requests via email

    Microsoft says customers can now avoid the hassle of phoning the company’s support lines by requesting a hot fix by email.

  • 26 July 2007

  • News: Firefox threat as hacker posts attack code

    Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorised software on a victim's machine.

  • News: Warning over 30,000 newly infected websites

    Security firm Sophos says the number of infected web pages has soared nearly six-fold since the start of the year

  • News: Porn broker faces DOJ charges

    A US grand jury in Los Angeles has charged a California man with operating an internet-based obscenity distribution business and other offences, the US Department of Justice announced yesterday.

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