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• Windows VPN software allows attacks

  Windows 2000 and Windows XP servers can be attacked through the software ordinarily used to create secure connections to remote workers.

• Major Microsoft IIS attack predicted within week

  Businesses have been warned to brace themselves for a major attack on Microsoft Internet Information Servers within the next week.

• Attack targets .info domain system

  Attackers flood another domain name system with a deluge of data in an online assault that resembles last month's attempt to cripple DNS root servers.

• Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs

  SQL Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm, has highlighted a dirty secret in the IT industry: Software bugs are common and administrators are slow to patch them.

• Flaw bugs Office 2000 customers

  A software slipup in Microsoft's latest update to Office 2000 results in the application repeatedly asking some customers to register the program.

• Attack on Net server fails

  An apparently coordinated attempt to cripple the computers that serve as the address books for the Internet failed Monday.

• 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.

• Microsoft hunts down targeted attacks on Word flaw

  Microsoft is looking into a vulnerability that could affect Word, the company said on Monday.

• 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.

• 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.

• Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'

  Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain.

• 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.

• Apple patches 10 iPhone flaws

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

• US Homeland Security e-mail gaffe exposes secrets

  A technical contractor may have started a chain of events that led to security professionals divulging classified information

• 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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