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  • 18 April 2007

  • News: US college massacre sites for sale on eBay

    Ghoulish internet opportunists quickly registered dozens of domain names linked to the Virginia Tech tragedy. Some attempted to profit from the murders by selling the domain names on eBay for as much as £25,000.

  • 17 April 2007

  • News: Huge increase in child web pornography

    According to the IWF (Internet Watch Foundation), the number of websites publishing pictures and videos of children being sexually abused continues to grow.

  • News: First Wi-Fi thieves arrested and cautioned

    A man and a woman have been arrested and cautioned in Redditch for using other people's Wi-Fi broadband internet connections without permission.

  • News: Firefox 2.0 gets Windows Media Player plug-in

    Microsoft, as part of its outreach to the open-source community, has released a new official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one.

  • News: P2P crackdown snares BitTorrent uploader

    A man from Columbus, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to two felonies related to distribution of copyright materials over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday.

  • News: Windows PCs hit by Storm Trojan switch

    The group behind last week's massive Storm Trojan spam blast set up Windows users with a one-two punch by switching tactics in midrun, making the second stage's subject headings more believable, according to researchers.

  • 16 April 2007

  • News: Blu-ray & HD DVD tackle hackers

    Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won't play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology.

  • News: Skype worm harvests email addresses

    A worm targeting Skype's VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) application is harvesting email addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said today.

  • 14 April 2007

  • News: Windows kills the Mac persecution complex

    Mac watchers have been writing about Windows a lot lately, following Apple's switch to Intel processors, and the consequent ability to run Windows on Intel-based Macs, both of which have profound implications for the Mac. It could eradicate the Mac persecution complex once and for all, change the outright hostility that many Mac users feel for Windows into shoulder-shrug indifference, and make the Mac more popular than it's been for a long, long time.

  • News: Linux virus targets iPods

    As threats go this one is very small but the target happens to be one of the biggest in the digital world - someone has finally got round to writing an iPod virus.

  • News: Wi-Fi bug exposes Linux OS

    A bug has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop-- even when it’s not on a Wi-Fi network.

  • 13 April 2007

  • News: Microsoft reveals dangerous DNS flaw

    Attackers are trying to take advantage of a newly-disclosed vulnerability in several of Microsoft's server products that could allow them to run unauthorised code on affected computers, the company has warned

  • News: Microsoft kills off Windows XP

    Microsoft plans to kill Windows XP by preventing PC manufacturers from selling systems running the operating system by 31 January 2008

  • News: Dangerous Storm Trojan breaks records

    A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, according to security companies.

  • News: Windows Vista's OEM BIOS hacked

    Microsoft's anti-piracy team has acknowledged that hacks against Windows Vista's OEM BIOS activation scheme are circulating, but seemed to say it has no plans to immediately counter the threat.

  • News: Microsoft Word 2007 bug is a built-in feature

    The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft has claimed. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.

  • News: Microsoft backs China's anti-piracy measures

    Microsoft is seeing some improvements to the considerable problem of software piracy in China, it's top lawyer said yesterday.

  • 12 April 2007

  • News: UK identity theft increases by 69 percent

    The number of reported UK victims of identity theft continues to rise, according to new data released by credit-checking agency Experian

  • News: Microsoft lawyer backs Vista-capable claims

    Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, insists there was no 'Windows Vista Capable' con, despite his company's efforts to reword the techical requirements for premium Vista PCs

  • 11 April 2007

  • News: Microsoft investigates Office 2007 flaws

    Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word 2007, and other software. Hackers have not yet exploited the Word 2007 flaws, however.

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