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Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft unveils IE -- minus the 'click to activate' nag

Microsoft has stripped a "click to activate" warning from Internet Explorer (IE), part of the fallout from a patent lawsuit settlement the company str...

Article | 13/12/2007 Most HP, Compaq notebooks ship with code bugs

Nearly two-dozen different laptop models sold by Hewlett-Packard Co. ship with software plagued with multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, security resea...

Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft ends year by patching 11 bugs

Microsoft released seven security bulletins this week that patch 11 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and other part...

Article | 12/12/2007 DNS attack could signal Phishing 2.0

Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims...

Article | 12/12/2007 Facebook, ID fraud and the dark side of the Web

In a year that has seen bullying in blogs, pedophiles on MySpace and an ongoing privacy backlash against Facebook, it was appropriate that this year's...

Article | 12/12/2007 Firefox 3.0 beta 2 due by year's end

Mozilla said developers have handed off the second beta of Firefox 3.0 to internal testing, and will ship the next preview of the open-source browser ...

Article | 12/12/2007 Microsoft security patches focus on client bugs

Microsoft has released its monthly set of security patches, fixing critical flaws in the Windows desktop.

Article | 11/12/2007 Xmas provides fertile ground for IM, social networking-based threats

Symantec's holiday spam listing is seeing an increase in threats which capitalise on the concept of a trusted source or Web site.

Article | 11/12/2007 Exploit menaces media players from Microsoft, AOL

Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft and AOL, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (cod...

Article | 7/12/2007 Cookie variants can skirt blockers, anti-spyware tools

Just because your Web browser is set to block third-party tracking cookies that doesn't mean all of them are being blocked.

Article | 7/12/2007 Researchers hack and crack Microsoft wireless keyboards

Weak encryption used by Microsoft's wireless keyboards can be cracked in a matter of moments, a pair of Swiss security researchers said this week, giv...

Article | 7/12/2007 Microsoft slates seven patches next week

Microsoft promised to end the patch year with a bang by scheduling seven security updates for next Tuesday to fix flaws in Windows and Internet Explor...

Article | 7/12/2007 Media formats to be the focus of upcoming Microsoft patches

Microsoft will issue seven security updates next Tuesday, including critical sets of patches for Windows and Internet Explorer.

Article | 6/12/2007 Man sentenced to 110 years for hacking, extortion

A North Carolina man last week was sentenced to 110 years in prison after admitting that he and a co-conspirator hacked into computers used by young g...

Article | 6/12/2007 Big brands slip up in antivirus tests

Many big-brand security products fail to spot commonly-circulating malware, testing outfit has Virus Bulletin found in its latest tests.

Article | 5/12/2007 Users, Web developers vent over IE7

Users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) turned a blog post by a Microsoft program manager into a complaint free-for-all that took the company to task for n...

Article | 5/12/2007 Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa

Microsoft cuts off Big Man after he starts talking about sex acts, using foul language

Article | 5/12/2007 F-Secure: Malware samples doubled in one year

Finnish security vendor F-Secure has collected twice as many malicious software samples this year than it has over the last 20 years, a trend that hig...

Article | 4/12/2007 Trend Micro offers data leak prevention

Trend Micro has released LeakProof 3.0, the security vendor's first data leak prevention product.

Article | 3/12/2007 UK government accuses Chinese of IT espionage

The UK government has accused the Chinese of hacking into the computer systems of some of its leading companies, according reports published by the En...