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• 17 October 2006

• News: Microsoft limits Vista licensing

  Microsoft is limiting the number of machines to which users can transfer Windows Vista licences as part of licensing changes for its new Windows client OS.

• News: Free McDonald's MP3 players contain worm

  Winners of 10,000 MP3 players given away in a Japanese fast-food promotion got more than they bargained for, as their prizes contained a worm

• News: Microsoft caves on Vista security

  Software giant gives rivals vital code to ensure third-party apps run safely with Windows

• News: Laptop battery crisis widens

  Sony has added its name to a growing list of computer makers recalling laptop batteries made by one of its own subsidiaries.

• 14 October 2006

• News: PowerPoint zero-day threat appears

  New proof-of-concept code targeting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 PowerPoint has become publicly available

• News: BT fires back at spammers

  New automated system should identify professional spammers and 'botnet'-infected customers on the BT broadband network

• 13 October 2006

• News: No EU delay for Windows Vista

  Microsoft has agreed to make changes to Windows Vista to satisfy European Union regulators, and claims the new OS will be released within weeks

• News: Congressional Budget Office mailing list hacked

  Hackers have breached the mailing list of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), according to the agency.

• News: Windows Vista could protect rootkits

  A security researcher is raising concerns about a digital rights management feature in Windows Vista that he claims may make it easy for malicious code authors to block antivirus programs from removing their wares.

• News: HP continues clean-up operation

  Hewlett Packard is hiring a chief ethics and compliance officer to make sure its businesses practices, sullied by a boardroom spying scandal, remain on the straight and narrow.

• 12 October 2006

• News: New technology to fight phishing

  Security companies are developing new ways to keep the public informed about fraudulent websites and cut down on scams.

• News: Icann: 'We can't shut down Spamhaus'

  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said it does’t have the ability or authority to comply with a proposed court order to suspend antispam firm Spamhaus’s Internet service.

• 11 October 2006

• News: Stock options scandal hits McAfee

  A major, executive shake-up is under way at security software vendor McAfee, including the firing of the company's president in the wake of a stock-options investigation.

• News: Home PC users most attacked by hackers

  Ordinary PC users - not large corporate networks - are targeted the most by hackers due to weaker security measures, according to the latest report by Symantec.

• 10 October 2006

• News: Windows & Office users get critical patches

  Microsoft has issued 11 security updates, fixing critical vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software.

• News: Microsoft revamps Vista anti-piracy technology

  Microsoft has confirmed it is overhauling its anti-piracy technology in Windows Vista to plug a potential software licence hole

• News: Software vulnerabilities on the march

  The number of software security vulnerabilities identified during the first eight months of this year has already gone past the total recorded for all of 2005

• News: Widespread web bugs track your email

  The tracer software that Hewlett Packard investigators used to try to sniff out boardroom leaks sounded like it had been ripped from the pages of a bad science-fiction novel. That is, until the company began talking about it in detail at a congressional probe into the spying scandal.

• News: Volunteer antispam group faces closure

  A US court has threatened to shut down the Spamhaus Project, a volunteer-run antispam service, for ignoring an $11.7m judgement against it.

• News: Survey: net crime 'scarier than burglary'

  A study released by the UK government has found that 21 per cent of Brits feel more at risk from internet crime than being burgled.

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