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13 July 2007
News: HP develops 'secure paper documents'

HP has developed Trusted Hardcopy - a technology that secures paper documents against fraud. Trusted Hardcopy also integrates paper documents with electronic processes by allowing them to be used as a medium for transferring data.
News: Microsoft tackles .Net vulnerability

Microsoft has moved to protect millions of networks vulnerable to a .Net exploit discovered nine months ago.
12 July 2007
News: Kaspersky slated as 'king of false positives'

Kaspersky has hit rival anti-virus vendor Rising Tech with a defamation lawsuit following Rising Tech’s recent controversial comments.
News: Microsoft offers free Windows OneCare 2.0

A free beta version of Microsoft's antispyware, anti-virus and backup package is now available for download, as the software giant continues its efforts to take on the security software market
News: Apple fixes QuickTime & iTunes

Apple has patched a number of critical flaws in its QuickTime media player.
News: Security warning over PDF spam

PDF spam is set to replace image spam as the scourge of inboxes, according to security experts. They say image spam is finally on the decline, but a new threat that uses an attached PDF file to trick recipients into buying stock in a company is emerging.
11 July 2007
News: IE versus Firefox in security blame game

A security researcher has found a security bug that could be attacked in Internet Explorer. Mozilla said it plans to patch the problem in its next Firefox software update.
News: Critical Windows & Office patches available

Microsoft has patched 11 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and the .Net Framework - five of them rated ‘critical’.
10 July 2007
News: Million-dollar bounty offered for software pirates

The BSA (Business Software Alliance) - an IT industry group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Dell, HP and dozens more - is offering $1 million for anyone who shops a company that's illegally circumventing software licensing agreements. The BSA has increased the reward as software piracy continues to grow. According to IDC, US software vendors lost $7.3 billion in 2006 as a result of piracy.
News: Cisco, Microsoft, EMC join forces to thwart terror

Cisco, Microsoft and EMC are set to build a system that lets the US government securely share data among its agencies. The US government has been looking for such a system since the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
09 July 2007
News: Credit card fraudsters targeting charities

Credit card thieves are becoming big-time charity donors, but it's not out of the goodness of their hearts.
News: Zero-day bugs have one-year lifespan

The average zero-day bug has a lifespan of 348 days before it is discovered or patched, but some vulnerabilities live on for much longer, according to security vendor Immunity's chief executive officer.
06 July 2007
News: Microsoft prepares 'critical' Office patches

Microsoft will release six security updates next week, the same number as in June, to patch problems in Windows, Office and the .Net Framework.
News: 'Shadow' IT culture accepted in business

Businesses increasingly accept the existence of a ‘shadow’ IT culture, in which end users install uncontrolled ‘rogue’ technology to make good the shortcomings of overstretched IT departments, according to a survey
05 July 2007
News: Email worms in decline, says report

Not long ago the scourge of the internet, email worms have declined sharply in 2007, a security company has revealed.
04 July 2007
News: Linkin Park in cyberstalking storm

Devon Townsend, a former employee of the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, has pleaded guilty to stalking Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington and to unlawful access to stored communications.
03 July 2007
News: MBS porn billing: are you being ripped off?

We've been inundated with complaints from outraged readers about MBS' billing practices, but has it actually broken any consumer law?
02 July 2007
News: Harry Potter breaks Amazon record again

The final instalment in the Harry Potter series of books is set to break records at online retailer Amazon.com.
29 June 2007
News: 'Harry Potter is dead' email alert

Sophos has warned Harry Potter fans not to open an email claiming to contain the final instalment of the boy wizard book series.
News: Thousands of MySpace users infected by bug

Phishers have been using compromised MySpace.com accounts to attack unsuspecting web surfers, according to security experts.