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06 December 2006
News: MySpace tries to root out sex offenders

Stepping up efforts to keep sex offenders off MySpace.com, the popular social-networking site has partnered with an online identity and background verification company to build a US national sex offender database and dedicate staff to checking the database against MySpace profiles.
News: Microsoft admits Vista is vulnerable

Software giant says there's nothing it can do about social-engineering scams, and warns of separate Vista-specific threats
05 December 2006
News: Washington gets $1M spyware settlement

Washington's attorney general has settled the first case prosecuted under the state's 2005 Computer Spyware Act.
04 December 2006
News: 'Technical Mujahid' published online

Jihadists now have their own security magazine.
01 December 2006
News: Social engineering on the rise

Whether as home users or office workers, humans remain the weakest link when it comes to IT security. Sophos expects hackers to exploit this fact and predicts social engineering to rise in 2007
30 November 2006
News: Windows Vista's first malware warning

Microsoft has touted Vista as a more secure version of Windows, but on the day of Vista's official launch, a security company has identified malware already in circulation that can infect computers running the OS.
29 November 2006
News: Apple releases Mac OS X Security Update

Apple has released Security Update 2006-007, updating a range of components of the operating system, from AirPort to PHP.
27 November 2006
News: EU battles spam overload

The European Commission has warned its member states to beef up their efforts to cut spam, spyware and malicious software, after research showed that up to 85 percent of all email received in the European Union is unsolicited.
24 November 2006
News: EU warns bankers to stop giving data to US

An international banking group violated EU data privacy laws by giving information to US authorities for terrorism investigations, a panel set up by the European Commission has concluded.
News: Porn king gets life sentence

Chinese authorities have maintained their tough stance on net porn by jailing the man behind the country’s most popular pornographic website for life.
News: Webroot releases parental control tool

Webroot, developer of the Spy Sweeper antispyware software, has launched a new parental control tool.
23 November 2006
News: Online security insufficient for web "virgins"

PCAdvisor.co.uk readers have broadly backed the security provisions of online banking services, in contrast to an NOP survey that reports a “deep mistrust” in the Internet for online transactions.
News: Office workers may lose instant-messaging rights

UK businesses have been told to stop allowing employees to use IM in the workplace, or face the consequences of malware running riot on corporate networks.
22 November 2006
News: Hotmail phishers nabbed by Microsoft

Microsoft has initiated 97 lawsuits throughout Europe and the Middle East during its eight-month investigation into fraudulent web pages, with another 32 criminal complaints filed in cooperation with local authorities.
News: eBay piracy costs sellers $100,000

The software industry has claimed a victory against piracy after two men who sold pirate versions of Symantec products using eBay were forced to pay $100,000 (£52,000) in damages.
21 November 2006
News: Reduce online holiday shopping risks

Santa Claus may take online orders this year, but the Grinches will also be on the Internet.
News: Sex offender site claims first success

A UK government initiative to track down sex offenders by publishing their details on a Most Wanted website has claimed its first success, after one of the men identified by the site handed himself in to authorities.
News: Antiphishing toolbars fail users – report

New report points the finger at McAfee and others for failing to protect consumers from online scams
17 November 2006
News: Microsoft Workstation Service exploits emerge

Detailed exploit code has already become available for a critical flaw in a Microsoft Workstation Service function that was patched only two days ago as part of Microsoft's security updates for November
News: Image spam now in the billions

Global spam has ballooned by nearly 100 percent in the space of a year according to current statistics from the IronPort Threat Operation Center – a key driver of which is the proliferation of image-based spam