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  • BusinessWeek site hacked

    Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US.

  • Trend Micro rolls out 2009 suite

    Late last week Trend Micro released its Internet Security 2009 and Internet Security Pro 2009 products, touting enhanced performance, features and better end-user education.

  • McAfee speeds up updates

    What if your desktop security application could detect and remove a new threat that was only minutes old? That's the impetus behind McAfee's Artemis technology, announced yesterday.

  • Norton 2009 tackles whitelisting

    Symantec is using interesting techniques to tackle performance requirements in its upcoming Norton 2009 security suite, according to the company's vice president of consumer engineering, Rowan Trollope.

  • Microsoft refutes hypervisor attack claim

    Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing.

  • Best Western details hotel hack

    The Best Western hotel chain has given details of a hack involving one of its hotels, but downplayed reports that eight million customers have been affected.

  • Symantec wants another chance

    Computer security firm Symantec this week claimed 300 changes in the new versions of Norton Internet Security and Antivirus would address past performance problems.

  • Microsoft releases IE8 beta 2

    On Wednesday in the US, Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8.

  • Photos: The tools of a digital forensics expert

    Ever wondered how to catch the world's most high tech criminals? This photo gallery gives you a tour of the tools used in digital forensics.

  • Massive fraud server exposed

    A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.

  • Much ado about iPhone kill switch

    Apple's iPhone "kill switch" has prompted much hand-wringing, despite the fact that no one knows exactly what it does.

  • Twitter targeted by malware attacks

    Microblogging service Twitter has started to be targeted by online criminals with malware.

  • DNS disaster: first attacks reported

    The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported.

  • Google's Blogger number one for malware

    Search giant Google has catapulted itself to the top in the ranks of web hosts with the most malware, courtesy of its blogging website Blogger, according to security vendor Sophos.

  • First iPhone antivirus app released

    Paris-based computer security firm Intego late last week said it had released the first antivirus software for Apple's iPhone handset.

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