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MS probes mystery IE bug
URL shortening shenanigans
Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.…
Symantec finally secures HackIsWack
It's such a bungle, sometimes, it makes you wonder...
Symantec has belatedly secured its laughable HackIsWack competition website.…
USB stick with anti-terror training found outside police station
Keychain cops
A memory stick containing anti-terror training manuals and other sensitive material was reportedly found on a street outside a Manchester police station.…
Symantec Snoop Dogg rap contest site rickrolled
#hackiswacked
Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.…
Phone bugging scandal reignited as <em>NotW</em> suspends reporter
The story that refuses to die
New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messages of an unnamed television personality.…
Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest
Now thass geekster
Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.…
Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic
Get their Belvoirs mixed up
Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.…
Microsoft releases FixIt for critical flaw in 100 apps
Relief for Firefox, Nvidia, PowerPoint
Microsoft has released a software tool that helps system administrators protect PCs against a critical class of vulnerabilities found in more than 100 applications from a variety of software makers.…
Hardware hackers defeat quantum crypto
Tripping the light fantastic
Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.…
Scotch tape maker buys biometric tech firm
Wrap up
Updated Industrial conglomerate 3M has agree to buy biometric security firm Cogent Systems in a deal valued at $943m.…
Pro-Palestine hackers spraypaint gov training quango
National Skills Academy bitten by JaCKal
A government training organisation - the National Skills Academy - has had its home page hacked and replaced by a message supporting Palestine.…
Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash
Cascading fail
Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago.…
Intel's embedded security strategy faces tech obstacles
Security vendors react to blockbuster deal
Security vendors have welcomed Intel's $7.7bn acquisition of McAfee as confirmation of the importance of security in the future of computing but warned plans to embed security in chips will pose difficult technical challenges and may upset existing partners.…
Intel needs to rethink security to profit from McAfee buy
Power, performance and (now) protection
Analysis Intel's surprise $7.76bn acquisition of McAfee is not only the biggest pure-play security deal in history, but the most significant statement of intent by an IT superpower since Microsoft launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative back in 2002.…
Linux kernel purged of five-year-old root access bug
'Just go update already'
The Linux kernel has finally been purged of a privilege-escalation vulnerability that for at least half a decade allowed untrusted local users to gain unfettered rights to the operating system's most secure locations.…
Intel snaps up McAfee in $7.68bn deal
Surprise security snaffle
Intel has bought information security specialist McAfee in a surprise deal valued at $7.68bn.…
Exiting workers more likely to steal data than stationery
Sod your stapler
Many workers have confessed they would be prepared to swipe data from their ex-employers when they changed jobs.…
<em>Jackal</em> novelist blames NSA for wife's laptop hack
Barking tale of West African cyber-snoop told to Beeb
Novelist Frederick Forsyth has accused heavy handed US cyber-spies of destroying his wife's computer in an attempt to tap into copy he was filling for the Daily Express from West Africa.…
Adobe to patch Black Hat bugs on Thursday
Once more unto the breach
Adobe plans to release out-of-sequence updates on Thursday (19 August) designed to patch security holes in its Acrobat and Reader PDF software revealed at the Black Hat conference earlier this month.…
Apple.com hit in latest mass hack attack
Cupertino succumbs to Jedi server trick
A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than 1 million webpages, at least two of which belong to Apple.…
