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13 April 2007
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.
News: McAfee predicts cybercrime meltdown

Research from McAfee's Avert Labs predicts a nightmare future of more sophisticated cybercrime and the development of further technological means to carry out external attacks.
News: Microsoft releases critical Windows fixes

Microsoft yesterday released its regularly scheduled batch of security patches. This month's Patch Tuesday includes three fixes for critical flaws in Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system).
10 April 2007
News: Positive Windows Vista uptake revealed

Nearly 25 percent of PC Advisor pollsters upgraded to Windows Vista, just two months after the operating system’s UK consumer release.
News: Windows flaw targeted by 2000+ websites

More than 2,000 unique websites have been rigged to exploit the animated cursor security flaw in Microsoft's software, according to security vendor Websense.
News: Outrage over Vista's slow startup & shutdown

Windows Vista users are complaining on Microsoft's support forums about long start-up, shutdown and application load times compared with Windows XP.
News: Apple fixes Airport Wi-Fi security flaw

Apple has published a firmware update for its Airport Extreme Base Station that fixes two security flaws in the Wi-Fi router.
08 April 2007
News: Take care of your smartphone's security

My heart sank when I first saw Al Gore pull out his BlackBerry. It was in the waning weeks of the 2000 presidential campaign, and there he was on the TV, tapping away on his then-novel converged device.
06 April 2007
News: Opinion: hacking Apple TV

We've only just seen the release of the Apple TV, Apple's media-streaming box, but hackers across the world have already been able to turn the £199 multimedia box into a fully fledged computer
05 April 2007
News: New hack threatens routers & phones

A security researcher at Juniper Networks says he plans to demonstrate a new class of attack that can be used to compromise electronic devices like routers or mobile phones.
News: Phishing foe fights web fraudsters

Ben Jackson's goal is to stymie people who develop phishing sites - misleading websites designed to steal people's personal information.
04 April 2007
News: Windows Vista 'bug week' was a hoax

Yet another daily bug hunt, dubbed Week of Vista Bugs (WOVB), was only a hoax, the project's ‘creators’ have revealed.
News: Controversy over Vista-capable 'deception'

Lawsuit slams Microsoft for 'unfairly' labelling PCs as ‘Windows Vista Capable’ even when they could only run Vista Home Basic
News: Emergency Windows patch available now

Microsoft has published an emergency software patch after hackers found a way to exploit a critical flaw in Windows.
News: AJAX poses Web 2.0 security threat

Many web applications written using the popular AJAX programming technique are vulnerable to a JavaScript hijacking attack, security company Fortify Software has claimed.