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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. German researchers have found a way to decrypt packets from a WPA-protected network. Routers from major vendors have been identified as susceptible to a vulnerability known as SNMP injection. Businesses not only need to be focused on their intranets but they also need to be vigilant to their outsourced data flow. The website of BusinessWeek has been hacked in an attempt to infect the visitors with malware. The antivirus/perimeter approach to security is dead, and targeted attacks could very well be the final nail in the AV coffin. Security organisations are warning of a new virus attack that uses the upcoming Chinese Olympics to spread a new variant of the Storm malware.. Targeted attacks against financial institutions continued to soar last month, according to the latest report by RSA. The Estonian government has approved an action plan to boost its cyber security following a barrage of hacking attacks it blamed on Russia. Spammers have switched their tactics with the latest "storm worm" run in hopes of getting more of the malicious messages delivered into company inboxes. A new phishing scheme leveraging the McDonald's name is part of a trend that plays on the economic downturn. Users are being advised to update their systems after the emergence of a new rash of attacks targeting a previously-patched flaw in Adobe Acrobat. Microsoft on Tuesday delivered fixes for four vulnerabilities, three labelled critical, as part of its monthly security update. Attacks reported on recently-patched Windows hole. Malware writers are leveraging the trusted Google name to launch a new wave of worm attacks against Facebook users, researchers said this week. The demand that web 2.0 has placed on browsers is opening up new vulnerabilities to unsuspecting users, Itzik Kotler, team leader of the Security Operation Center at IT security firm Radware, has warned. Users might end up with rogue anti-virus software on their machines by searching for Halloween costumes online. The hacking community is outpacing the security industry, and different sectors of the IT community need to work together more closely to narrow the gap. With flaws in many new products, vendors should listen a bit more to the research community perhaps While it is unlikely we will ever abolish cybercrime, I do believe that we can make the internet a safer place.