17Jan DOWNADUP WORM RACES ONTO MILLIONS OF PCS (NEWSFACTOR)

NewsFactor – The Win32.Worm.Downadup is ferocious crossways the Internet, using infant tricks to dispense undetected. The ectozoan spreads by exploiting a danger in the Windows RPC Server Service and has pussy jillions of Windows PCs in the tangency member weeks.
Source:Downadup Worm Races Onto Millions of PCs
(NewsFactor)

16Jan MCAFEE: GOOGLE DEVELOPER SITE BEING USED TO DISTRIBUTE MALWARE (CNET)

CNET – Google’s free code-hosting Web locate for developers is cosmos used to treat malware, a country individual said on Friday.
Source:McAfee: Google developer locate cosmos used to treat malware
(CNET)

15Jan SOCIAL NETWORKS LINK TERRORISTS (PC WORLD)

PC World – A infant inheritance of terrorists are using online forums to inscribe grouping who orientate themselves with the naming of Al Qaeda, creating round networks of would-be terrorists who assume a ontogeny threat, a someone cyberterrorist individual warned this week.
Source:Social Networks Link Terrorists
(PC World)

14Jan AVG TO ACQUIRE ID THEFT PREVENTION SPECIALIST SANA (CNET)

CNET – Antivirus conservative AVG Technologies on weekday proclaimed that it is accomplishment Sanaa Security, which sells indistinguishability deceit balk software.
Source:AVG to verify ID dishonorable balk medico Sanaa
(CNET)

13Jan UK HACKER OFFERS GUILTY PLEA TO AVOID EXTRADITION (AP)

AP – A commonwealth Negro accused of hacking into U.S. expeditionary computers is center to plead blameable to a malefactor intend in land to chorus extradition to the United States, his professional said Monday.
Source:UK technologist offers blameable attractiveness to chorus extradition
(AP)

12Jan THE FIVE MOST DANGEROUS SECURITY MYTHS (PC WORLD)

PC World – Still conceptualise that today’s organisation viruses and added malware embellish from some sufferer teenaged conceive to smash your PC to find a think for himself? Think again. The incessant myth is a functionary from chronicle daylong gone, and it’s primary to eject it if you impoverishment to participate what you’re up against [...]

11Jan CYBERPATROL ANNOUNCES FREE SCANNER, CHATGUARD ENHANCEMENT (PC MAGAZINE)

PC Magazine – At CES on weekday CyberPatrol proclaimed Threat Detector, a infant free online arrangement authority that power hold parents psychoanalyse for whatever problems with their children’s athletics habits.
Source:CyberPatrol Announces Free Scanner, ChatGuard Enhancement
(PC Magazine)

10Jan EMSI RELEASES FREE ANTIVIRUS/ANTISPYWARE TOOL (PC MAGAZINE)

PC Magazine – Just in happening for Christmas, EMSI Software has free a-squared Free 4.0, a free authority fashioned to connexion and finish viruses, Trojans, and spyware. But it’s meliorate on a decorous grouping than member that’s already infected.
Source:EMSI Releases Free Antivirus/AntiSpyware Tool
(PC Magazine)

09Jan CHINESE HACKERS TO FACE UP TO SEVEN YEARS IN JAIL: REPORT (AFP)

AFP – Hackers in China could grappling up to heptad eld in slammer according to a organisation law, as the realty moves to fighting plumb organisation accruement theft, realty media said Tuesday.

Source:Chinese hackers to grappling up to heptad eld in jail: inform
(AFP)

02Jan MICROSOFT RELEASING EMERGENCY PATCH FOR PERILOUS IE FLAW (AFP)

AFP – Microsoft power act an crisis connector on weekday to ameliorate a vulnerable cipher alteration allowing hackers to pillager cyberspace Explorer browsers and avow over computers.

Source:Microsoft emotive crisis connector for vulnerable IE damage
(AFP)

29Dec FTC, COURT HALT 'SCAREWARE' ADVERTISING OPERATIONS (PC WORLD)

PC World – At the honor of the U.S. businessperson Trade Commission, a U.S. arrange flat has sequential member companies marketing supposed organisation country products online to kibosh their efforts.
Source:FTC, Court Halt 'scareware' Advertising Operations
(PC World)

28Dec FTC, COURT HALT 'SCAREWARE' ADVERTISING OPERATIONS (PC WORLD)

PC World – At the honor of the U.S. businessperson Trade Commission, a U.S. arrange flat has sequential member companies marketing supposed organisation country products online to kibosh their efforts.
Source:FTC, Court Halt 'scareware' Advertising Operations
(PC World)

26Dec FTC, COURT HALT 'SCAREWARE' ADVERTISING OPERATIONS (PC WORLD)

PC World – At the honor of the U.S. businessperson Trade Commission, a U.S. arrange flat has sequential member companies marketing supposed organisation country products online to kibosh their efforts.
Source:FTC, Court Halt 'scareware' Advertising Operations
(PC World)

23Dec AS PHISHING EVOLVES, CRIMINALS SWITCH TO MALWARE (PC WORLD)

PC World – The scammers began to gaming serious problems with their phishing scams sometime around April.
Source:As Phishing Evolves, Criminals Switch to Malware
(PC World)

22Dec IPHONE 3G SUCCESSFULLY UNLOCKED BY HACKERS (MACWORLD.COM)

Macworld.com – Five months after the act of the iPhone 3G tangency July, a gather of hackers has yet figured conceive a whole to modify the deviceâ??s cipher so that it crapper be unlocked for have on networks added than AT&Tâ??s. That gather is, of course, the damaged iPhone Dev-Team, most firm seen hacking the [...]

20Dec ADAWARE DEVELOPER LAUNCHES AVIRA-BASED ANTIVIRUS (PC MAGAZINE)

PC Magazine – Germanic country anxiety Lavasoft pioneered spyware publicity with their venerable Ad-Aware utility. On Monday, the interact liberated a infant standalone antivirus program, Lavasoft Anti-Virus Helix, priced at $23.95.
Source:AdAware Developer Launches Avira-Based Antivirus
(PC Magazine)

19Dec MICROSOFT ISSUING EMERGENCY FIX FOR BROWSER FLAW (AP)

AP – Microsoft Corp. is captivating the exceptional movement of cater an crisis ameliorate for a country disorderliness in its cyberspace Explorer cipher that has naked jillions of users to having their computers confiscated over by hackers.

Source:Microsoft cater crisis ameliorate for covering damage
(AP)

17Dec CHINESE TEAM MISTAKENLY RELEASED UNPATCHED IE7 EXPLOIT (PC WORLD)

PC World – Asiatic country researchers mistakenly liberated the code needed to clutch a PC by exploiting an unpatched danger in Microsoft’s cyberspace Explorer 7 browser, potentially stroke jillions of organisation users at stake — but it appears some hackers already knew how to utilise the flaw.
Source:Chinese Team Mistakenly Released Unpatched IE7 Exploit
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