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January Patch Tuesday about as good as it gets E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Friday, 09 January 2009
Australian system administrators preparing to return to work after an extended summer holiday may be relieved to discover that Microsoft is only planning one security bulletin for the first Patch Tuesday of 2009. The bad news is that it will address a critical vulnerability in Windows.

 
British PCs can now hack your personal computer without a warrant E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Wednesday, 07 January 2009
The friendly British Bobby has just been given the right to remotely hack into the computers of UK citizens without notifying the owners, or bothering with a search warrant, or even passing an act of parliament for that matter.

 
Celebrity Twitter hackers target Britney's four-foot vagina E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Tuesday, 06 January 2009
Celebrity Twitter users post something interesting, shock horror! Well, not quite. Hackers who compromised their accounts have posted a variety of messages on their behalf, ranging from the amusing to the offensive. Still, it makes a change from boring I guess.

 
MD5 - The Internet has a Major Problem E-mail
by David Heath   
Saturday, 03 January 2009
Following on from previous reporting of the Internet’s MD5 CA problem, new issues have arisen.  Things are worse than they first appeared.
 
The Latest MD5 Attack - The Sky Continues to Fall E-mail
by David Heath   
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Overnight Australian time, at the 25th Chaos Computer Club Conference in Berlin, a presentation has described a successful method to create a rogue CA certificate.

 
Norton turns into mental lipstick-wearing false-positive pig E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Back in September when Symantec launched Norton Internet Security 2009, the Vice President of Consumer Business told the press in Madrid that "people shouldn't tolerate a security product with poor performance." Does going mental and warning that sites such as iTWire, CNN and Reddit are trying to attack your network count?

 
Australian sites on the rise in web malware infections E-mail
by Angus Kidman   
Thursday, 11 December 2008
A web page becomes infected with malware every 4.5 seconds, and Australian sites are playing an increasingly prominent role in that problem, according to new figures from security software company Sophos.

 
Internet Explorer zero-day attack in the wild E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 11 December 2008
A new exploit works against fully-patched copies of Internet Explorer, security companies have warned. Its release may have been timed to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for December.

 
Another big month for Microsoft security patches E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Microsoft's Christmas bonus for system administrators has arrived in the form of eight security bulletins. Six of them are rated 'critical' and a seventh is more significant than its 'important' rating implies.

 
TrustDefender takes closer look at Firefox “Plugin” malware E-mail
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt   
Monday, 08 December 2008
Despite the fact that Firefox is seen as a safer browser than Internet Explorer, the emergence of the latest Firefox malware Plugin shows that a browser alone is not enough protection in a world of evil banking Trojans, botnets, rootkits and crimeware.

 
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