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Just a few hours after Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the US, malicious emails are being sent offering a video with his advisors. Managing firewall rule sets and policies is a complex and messy business. Simply following a few best practices can go a long way to simplify your life, cut costs, and improve security. The anti phishing working group (APWG) launched a new best practice guide for registrars today, aimed at making it more difficult for online criminals to register domains for purposes such as creating phishing sites. The percentage of new web sites harbouring malware and other potentially unwanted programs has increased by almost 50 per cent this month, according to the latest figures from security firm MessageLabs released today. This year has not been a good one in terms of data breaches – from the loss of child benefit details to the loss of top secret information on known terrorists. Google is the search engine of choice for both consumers and hackers, according to infosec experts. Chinese internet users have criticised what they deem to be Microsoft's violation of their right to privacy. Banks falling behind fraudsters. Microsoft is issuing a critical fix for Windows users. Misuse of language is turning 'ordinary, decent computer criminals' into 'cyberterrorists' who menace world peace. Security professionals weigh in on what may have caused the most recent high-profile personal account breach -- this one involving French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The Russian government has been cleared of any direct involvement in cyber attacks on Georgia. He flew in and out in a flash but Eugene Kaspersky managed to paint a bleak future for the whitehats of the security industry during his Sydney visit this week. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers. A new threat that poisons DNS caches has been identified. Some of the biggest names in the security industry have failed the latest Virus Bulletin 100 test. Some of the biggest names in the security industry have failed the latest Virus Bulletin VB100 test. Sophos has completed its acquisition of German-based data security and encryption vendor Utimaco Safeware. While it is unlikely we will ever abolish cybercrime, I do believe that we can make the internet a safer place. Reports suggest that today may be a bad day for Washington scammers.