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Spammers have developed bots that are capable of signing up and creating random accounts on Microsoft's Windows Live Mail service, according to security researchers at Websense. Symantec has warned that a critical flaw in the ActiveX control of image uploaders that have been widely distributed to users of popular social networking sites Facebook and MySpace can be exploited by hackers to install malicious code on user's computers. Hackers have launched a website which allows users to construct phishing pages for social networking and webmail sites.. Web developers and computer programmers gathered together for the first Yahoo! ‘Hack Day' in London at the weekend. Security vendor SecureWorks says a mass attack launched against Apache servers running Linux, which has now infected 10,000 websites, can be thwarted by disabling dynamic loading in the server configuration. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. The new year is supposed to signal a fresh start for us all, but web threats will continue to reign in 2008, wreaking havoc just as they did this year Yahoo has updated its instant messaging platform to protect against a vulnerability that can allow remote attacks. AJAX, Web 2.0 security

No, you did not miss the memo or a software upgrade notice. Yet you’ve already arrived at Web 2.0. The “upgrade” from Web 1.0 to the new Web 2.0 world has been an evolutionary process, continually driving the Web to be more interactive, useful and interesting for consumers and the business community. The web is not as free as you might think. In some countries, posting critical views online can cost you your freedom. In one of its lighter Patch Tuesday cycles in recent months, Microsoft released four fixes, including a patch for a critical vulnerability in its Windows Agent animation services. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), whose domain-identification technology prevents fraudulent junk emails from reaching users' inboxes. A Switzerland-based company this week launched an eBay-like marketplace for buying and selling zero-day software vulnerabilities. Swiss laboratory launches marketplace for security research. You wouldn't post your home address on a public website. You should be just as careful with your work email address. A new spam campaign lures victims into clicking on a malicious link in an attempt to take control of the PC and surf the Web as the legitimate user. Mozilla released six security advisories on Wednesday for flaws in its Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird programs. As users await the latest Mozilla Firefox patches, expected to be released today, absent will likely be a fix for a new remote vulnerability in browser extensions reported by a University of Indiana graduate student. IM flaw allows attackers to take control of a system. The same group of hackers who last week promised nude photographs of Britney Spears is now believed to be mass spamming messages that contain a clickable image of porn star Jenna Jameson.