The UK under cyberattack, Israel hit by corporate espionage

The UK under cyberattack

The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) issued a briefing yesterday warning that the UK is currently undergoing a sustained, Trojan-based attack targeting critical governmental infrastructure. From the briefing:

The briefing has instructions for detecting if you've been compromised, and for protecting yourself if you haven't. If you're in the UK and you work in a sector that has been hit, you probably already know about the NISSC warning. If you don't, then be sure to check it out.

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Hard drives for 'terabyte lives'

Hard drives for 'terabyte lives'

As hunger for storage grows unabated, hard drive makers are continuing to push storage capacity up, while keeping physical size down.

This week Seagate announced a slew of hard drives which it says are for people who want a "terabyte lifestyle".

Among them is the first 2.5-inch 160Gb hard drive which uses what is called perpendicular recording to fit much more data for every square inch.

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Microsoft warns on security fixes

Microsoft warns on security fixes

Microsoft has issued an alert about a bumper package of security updates for Windows.

A total of 10 updates will be released on 14 June to fix a variety of flaws in the operating system.

Some of the updates have been rated as critical and Microsoft has issued a warning to help companies prepare.
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VMware Introduces the VMware Technology Network (VMTN) for Developers

VMware Introduces the VMware Technology Network (VMTN) for Developers

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2005 — VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today introduced the VMware Technology Network (VMTN), an online virtual infrastructure resource center for developers and IT professionals involved with software development. The broad technical and product resources made available through VMTN at www.vmtn.net are designed to transform how software is developed, distributed and deployed.

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Firefox reintroduces seven-year-old security hole

Firefox reintroduces seven-year-old security hole

New versions of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers have re-introduced a seven-year-old flaw that makes them vulnerable to spoofing attacks, Secunia said on Monday.

Secunia first publicised the flaw last summer, warning that a feature that had been built into most browsers for years was in fact a security liability. The firm argued that a feature allowing one Web page to load arbitrary content into a frame of another page could allow an attacker to, for example, substitute his own login window on a bank's website. The feature was found in IE, Mozilla, Opera, Safari and Mozilla derivatives such as Konqueror.

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New Debian ships with security updates disabled

New Debian ships with security updates disabled

A configuration mistake disabling security updates in the new Debian Linux distribution has forced an update less than 24 hours after the software was released.

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ZDNet Australia

Microsoft Offers Reprieve on MCP Retake Offer

Microsoft Offers Reprieve on MCP Retake Offer

6/2/2005 -- Microsoft's base MCP exam retake promotion was supposed to come to an end on May 31, but the offer was given a reprieve and is now being extended another three months.

The MCP Exam "Second-Shot" offer's new deadline is Aug. 31, 2005. Exam retakes must be completed by Sept. 30, 2005.

Microsoft's "Second-Shot Offer" allows anyone taking and failing an MCP exam from June 1 to Aug. 30 to retake that exam. According to the offer posted on the MCP site, candidates can retake an exam only once, but the retake can be applied to as many exams as a candidate can take until the offer ends.

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Windows 2000 Users Miss Out on IE7

Windows 2000 Users Miss Out on IE7

Microsoft has attracted a storm of criticism after confirming that it will not make the next version of Internet Explorer available to users of its Windows 2000 operating system.

Microsoft had previously kept quiet about whether IE7 would be available for Windows 2000, a version of Windows that will remain supported until 2010. "We have heard the requests for support of Windows 2000 but have nothing to announce at this time," Dave Massy, a programme manager on the IE team, said in a blog posting in February.

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Europe Home to the Majority of Zombies

Europe Home to the Majority of Zombies

Using a tool that can track zombie machines, CipherTrust found that 26 per cent of them were hosted in European countries, with most of them in Germany (six per cent), France (five per cent) and the UK (three per cent).

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Vigilante hackers use Old West tactics for cyberspace justice

Vigilante hackers use Old West tactics for cyberspace justice

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Angered by the growing number of Internet scams, online "vigilantes" have started to take justice into their own hands by hacking into suspected fraud sites and defacing them.
These hackers have targeted fake websites set up to resemble the sites of banks or financial institutions in recent weeks, and have inserted new pages or messages. Some say "Warning - This was a Scam Site," or "This Bank Was Fraudulent and Is Now Removed."

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