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  • News: Safari for Windows hits 1m downloads

    It took Apple just two days to reach 1 million downloads of its newest Safari web browser for Windows. A beta of the newest version was released during Steve Jobs' Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday.

  • News: Macs crippled by Safari 3.0 beta

    Some Mac users who have tried the three-day-old Safari 3.0 browser beta are hopping mad at Apple because several notable applications won't work after installing the application.

  • News: Child porn targeting forums using web script

    Child pornography is being injected into web forums by hackers using Cross Site Scripting (XSS), a technique typically deployed to distribute malware.

  • News: Windows Vista gets free security tools

    Check Point Software yesterday launched a Windows Vista version of its ZoneAlarm firewall. Check Point also announced a Vista version of its ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite. Customers with current subscriptions to earlier editions can update to the Vista version free of charge.

  • News: SonicWall buys Aventail for $25m

    IT security vendor SonicWall has entered into an agreement to acquire Aventail Corp, a privately held provider of SSL VPN remote access solutions for approximately $25 million in cash.

  • News: Warning over peer-to-peer ID theft

    It's not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

  • News: Microsoft reveals 9 'critical' bugs

    As Microsoft patched 15 vulnerabilities in its operating system, browser, and other software, security experts argued over which should be fixed first.

  • News: Safari for Windows: 18 bugs in one day

    Security researchers have jumped on Apple's beta version of the Safari browser, digging up as many as 18 bugs in the software, just one day after its release.

  • News: Flickr photos being blocked in China

    Flickr officials have no doubt that China is blocking their photo sharing site's images and the company is trying hard to figure out why this is happening and how it can be resolved.

  • News: Apple's Safari for Windows hacked already

    Apple is becoming a favourite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.

  • News: Apple's Safari to run on Windows

    For his traditional last-minute surprise near the end of the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company is releasing a beta of its Safari browser that runs on Microsoft’s rival Windows operating system.

  • News: AOL pest pleads guilty to spamming 1.2m people

    Adam Vitale pled guilty yesterday to sending unsolicited email to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said.

  • News: MPs to be warned of CCTV dangers

    A Cambridge University academic will warn Members of Parliament that the increasing collection of electronic data such as CCTV pictures is creating inequalities in legal cases.

  • News: Yahoo Messenger exploit hits Windows users

    Hackers are now using exploits that target Yahoo's instant messaging software making it critical that users patch the Windows program immediately, according to security vendors.

  • News: AMD to continue with ATI/Intel chips

    AMD will continue to supply ATI graphics chips for PCs based on Intel chips despite the fierce competition between the two companies, AMD's chief technology officer said in an interview.

  • News: Scammers fake Microsoft security alerts

    Scammers are sending out fake Microsoft security bulletins that install malicious software on victim's computers. Microsoft's genuine monthly patch release is expected tomorrow.

  • News: Yahoo fixes Messenger flaw

    Yahoo has fixed a serious vulnerability in its Messenger instant-messaging client. The critical bug in Yahoo Messenger could allow hackers to take control of a user's system.

  • News: 10 ways to beat cash-machine fraudsters

    Despite the general public's apparent caution toward online banking, figures released in March this year by the bank clearing house Apacs showed that cash machine fraud costs the banking industry more than £60m a year.

  • News: Inconsistent antivirus fix in works

    Antivirus products are inconsistent at best, revealed a recent report published by researchers at the University of Michigan. But while they aren't on their last legs, they could use a second wind.

  • News: ICT Security Standards Roadmap launches

    IT security specifications and standards organisations in Europe now have a a one-stop source for standards information. The ICT Security Standards Roadmap, is part of the website of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union), the telecommunications agency of the United Nations.