Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 3 November 2010 at 18:26:00

Company issues advisory over flaw in IE 6,7 and 8

Microsoft is warning users to be on the lookout following the discovery of a
security flaw in its Internet Explorer…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 2 November 2010 at 11:36:00

Chrome bounty scheme extended to YouTube, Blogger et al

Google has extended its bounty payouts to researchers who spot security
issues in some of its web applications, following a number …

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 30 October 2010 at 12:01:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security news

This week in security has been a fairly quiet one. Adobe’s latest revelation
of a zero-day flaw in Reader, Acrobat and Flash was proba…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Thursday 28 October 2010 at 16:39:00

Department of Energy official warns of increased threats to critical
infrastructure

The US is bracing for an attack on its national energy grid computing systems
involving Stuxnet-li…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 13:54:00

Hole in latest version of the Mozilla browser could lead to Trojan download

Browser manufacturer Mozilla is working on a fix for yet another critical
zero-day vulnerability in its …

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 24 October 2010 at 15:15:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security news

This week was dominated by the government’s spending plans, and the IT
security sphere was no different. First up on our round-up list i…

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Wendy M Grossman, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 20 October 2010 at 12:52:00

Former Pipex staffer calls for reinvention of the password

Stephen Howes, chief executive and co-founder of
GrIDsure,
has a not-so-modest ambition: to reinvent passwords to make t…

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Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 15:27:00

Monitoring web traffic or offering financial incentives to encourage
countries to protect systems could improve national security

Security experts have warned that the UK needs to a…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 10:52:00

Cloud-based services released in time for busy Christmas shopping period

Online authentication firm VeriSign has launched three cloud-based services
designed to help online retailers …

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Monday 18 October 2010 at 14:30:00

Stonesoft research reveals almost undetectable network-based threats

Security vendor Stonesoft claims to have discovered a dangerous new category
of threat which could render network s…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 16 October 2010 at 08:30:00

We round up the week’s top security stories

This week in security was dominated by some stark warnings from security
experts about the cyber security readiness of governments includi…

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Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 16 October 2010 at 06:57:00

Red herrings from the computing world

Shaun started the week at McAfee’s Focus 2010 conference, and we had security
on our minds, so thought we’d cov…

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Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Friday 15 October 2010 at 15:32:00

Members raise concerns with Home Office security minister

The House of Lords has raised a number of concerns about the UK’s cyber
security defence strategy, warning that greater know…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 14:42:00

Office for Cyber Security heralds more serious approach to defence of
critical infrastructure

The government is to step up investment in its national cyber security
strategy with a m…

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V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 08:21:00

Data mining through Twitter applications on display

McAfee Labs head of research Dave Marcus shows reporters how social
networking sites such as Twitter can be used to gather far more information th…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 01:53:00

One price covers users for the life of the computer

Security software vendor GFI are trialing a new form of software pricing
structure,
whereby a user buys protection…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 01:43:00

Company shows cyber crime in action

McAfee is running a demonstration at its Focus conference in Las Vegas
designed to show the ease with which a malware botnet can b…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 at 14:50:00

Latest Security Intelligence report reveals promising stats

Positive news for the security industry emerged today after Microsoft’s
latest Security Intelligence report revealed a re…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 at 13:14:00

Richard Clarke attacks countries including Russia and Moldova for harbouring
cyber criminals

A former presidential special advisor on cyber security has called on the UK,
US and Eur…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 10 October 2010 at 09:52:00

We round up the week’s top security stories

This week was dominated by the news that Microsoft and Oracle are planning
huge patch updates on Tuesday. Other key stories included RIM fin…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 8 October 2010 at 03:38:00

Executive says PCs without a valid ‘health certificate’ could be blocked from
internet

A security executive at Microsoft is suggesting a plan to limit internet
access fo…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 04:11:00

Regime says virus will be under control within a month

Iran has arrested an unspecified number of people for allegedly enabling the
Stuxnet malware to
access
to its nucl…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 04:01:00

Spam, phishing levels up in region

The number of cyber crime operations emanating from Europe is growing,
according to security experts.

Trend Micro said that over the…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 1 October 2010 at 03:40:00

Virus Bulletin conference hears conflicting evidence on malware

Delegates at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver have heard that
the Stuxnet worm could have b…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 30 September 2010 at 03:17:00

Virus Bulletin 2010 calls for safer document format

Security experts at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference have voted
overwhelmingly to abolish Adobe’s PDF standard …

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 28 September 2010 at 15:09:00

Cisco IronPort uncovers Zeus-based malicious spam threat

Security experts have warned of a malicious spam campaign on LinkedIn capable
of infecting users with the Zeus data-theft ma…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Monday 27 September 2010 at 14:52:00

Employee PCs hit but power plant not disrupted, say sources

Iranian sources appear to have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm has infected
PCs at the country’s Bushehr nuclear power fac…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Monday 27 September 2010 at 12:41:00

Second attack in a week runs amok on the micro-blogging site

Twitter has been forced to take down another worm attack spreading rapidly
across the site, just days after the
onMouseOv…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 26 September 2010 at 13:20:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security stories

This week in security was dominated by yet another threat to Twitter users. A
newly uncovered vulnerability was exploited to delive…

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V3.co.uk staff, V3.co.uk, Friday 24 September 2010 at 16:24:00

V3.co.uk readers’ most popular stories this week

The big news for V3.co.uk readers this week was the latest handset
releases from HTC, which feature the firm’s highly praised Sense i…

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