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  • Norton AntiVirus flaw ready for exploitation?

    Exploit codes that take advantage of a security vulnerability in Symantec's Norton AntiVirus software have been published on the Internet, which could leave users vulnerable to an attack.

  • Fedora reboots updates after hack

    The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in.

  • Malware on 'trusted' websites has quadrupled

    The amount of web-based malware hosted by trusted websites has increased by over 400 percent since last year, according to security vendor ScanSafe.

  • Virus encyclopaedia infects visitors with malware

    Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages.

  • Microsoft: Vista UAC designed to 'annoy users'

    A Microsoft manager has said one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to "annoy users" in order to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure.

  • US military to use network warfare to break enemy

    The special US cyber attack unit US Air Force Cyber Command will use network warfare such as denial of service and confidential data loss as stage one of a physical attack to soften an enemy's defences, according to a senior US general.

  • Botnets threaten the Internet as we know it

    Botnets are the biggest threat facing the Internet today and neither education, technology or the police can help, according to experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week.

  • LinuxWorld shows off Web 2.0 hacks

    LinuxWorld today played host to a demonstration of the vulnerabilities of Web 2.0, with SPI Dynamic's senior security engineer, Matt Fisher, offering some new examples of what criminals are doing online, armed with little more than a desktop browser.

  • Attackers exploit dangerous PDF file vulnerability

    On Monday, Adobe patched vulnerabilities in versions 8.1 and earlier of its Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. If exploited, an attacker could launch malicious code on an affected system.

  • 50 percent of DNS servers vulnerable

    Security around DNS servers is still a serious issue for network administrators, even though new servers such as BIND 9 are more secure, according to a new survey released this week.

  • Storm worm evolution continues

    The Storm worm is now more streamline and stable after malware authors ditched some key functions from the malicious code, according to researchers from Symantec.

  • Berners-Lee: Web security still a fight

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the Web, has described online security as a "never-ending battle".

  • Apple patches 10 iPhone flaws

    Apple today released ten iPhone security updates, including seven within the MobileSafari browser.

  • Attack code comes on heels of Microsoft patches

    Just a day after Microsoft released patches for vulnerabilities in some of its software, code designed to take advantage of those weaknesses appeared on the Internet.

  • Gmail cookie vulnerability exposes user's privacy

    Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen, has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.

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