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Article | 11/02/2008 MWC - Celltrust targets banks with encrypted SMS app

Celltrust developed its SecureSMS application so banks could deliver secure text messages to their customers' mobile phones -- but the company's chief...

Article | 11/02/2008 Microsoft ships new XP SP3 code to testers

Following the announcement that Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) had been shipped to manufacturing, Microsoft late last week confirmed that it seeded anothe...

Article | 11/02/2008 Antivirus company's Web site downloads ... a virus

The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors' computers, s...

Article | 11/02/2008 Web site of UK landmark hacked to serve malware

The Web site of one of the UK's most famous landmarks, the Forth Road Bridge, has been torn open in embarrassing fashion to serve malware, researchers...

Article | 11/02/2008 Check Point merges security clients

Check Point is combining two of its separate desktop clients and adding antivirus software into a single security client that can help simplify the di...

Article | 11/02/2008 Mozilla patches 11 Firefox bugs

Mozilla late last week patched Firefox to quash 11 bugs, including one from three weeks ago that posed a threat to users who had installed any of the ...

Article | 8/02/2008 Major vendors join OpenID board

IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify...

Article | 8/02/2008 Microsoft slates 12 patches for next week

Microsoft announced it will release a dozen security updates next week, matching the patch record set a year ago. Seven of the 12 will be tagged with...

Article | 8/02/2008 Grisoft changes name to AVG Technologies

<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031307-cebit-grisoft-releases-small-business.html">Grisoft</a> Wednesday said it has changed the name o...

Article | 8/02/2008 Spammers' bot cracks Microsoft's CAPTCHA

Spammers are using a bot to sidestep barriers that Microsoft has erected to keep scammers from creating massive numbers of accounts on its Live Mail s...

Article | 8/02/2008 Vista SP1 available on BitTorrent

Microsoft warns software pirates over Vista download

Article | 7/02/2008 Vista SP1, Server 2008 RTMs leak to Web

Paying customers may not get their hands on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) for weeks, but pirates can download the brand-n...

Article | 7/02/2008 Adobe fixes undisclosed vulnerabilities in Reader

Adobe has released an update that fixes vulnerabilities in its widely used Reader document viewing program.

Article | 6/02/2008 UK government denounces 'holocaust' e-mail as hoax

The UK government is taking unprecedented steps to combat an e-mail that has been widely distributed online.

Article | 6/02/2008 Microsoft fixing Vista SP1 flaw, release moved to mid-March

Microsoft Monday said Vista SP1 will not be available until mid-March because the company is working out issues with some device drivers that lose fun...

Article | 6/02/2008 ID theft helps UK fraud hit new high

Fraud in the UK hit a 12-year high in 2007, as crooks increasingly turned to the Internet to carry out ID theft, according to KPMG Forensic.

Article | 6/02/2008 Security pros: Kill ActiveX

A wave of bugs in the plug-in technology used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has some security experts, including those at US-CERT, rec...

Article | 5/02/2008 Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'

A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users.

Article | 5/02/2008 Judge orders end to weight-loss, anti-aging spam operation

A US judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop making weight-loss and anti-aging claims and to stop sending unsolicited e-mail, the US Federal Tra...

Article | 4/02/2008 Startup looks to head off botnets

A startup with US military backing will begin beta-testing a security appliance this month, which it argues could change the face of network security ...