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In its quarterly round of Critical Patch Updates, Oracle is expected to release security fixes for 27 vulnerabilities that it said affect "hundreds" of its products. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. Technology, media and telecoms (TMT) firms are "treading water" when it comes to data security and privacy, new research warns.. Microsoft has pushed out two fixes to close three vulnerabilities, including two "critical" server-side flaws that do not require any user interaction to be exploited. Google has halted the spread of a worm on its social networking website, Orkut, but not before the self-replicating script reportedly spread to more than 400,000 member profiles. Banker Trojans designed to steal passwords for online banking services are one of the primary threats online shoppers will face this holiday season, a security firm has warned.. Apple has issued patches to correct at least 40 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating system that could permit an attacker to install malicious software on a victim's machine Apple's iPhone will be a "primary target" for cybercriminals in 2008, a security company predicted today.. Yet another politician has suggested that blocking the web can save us from terrorists. If only life was that simple. 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. Millions of applications are installed on company networks each day without the permission of the IT department. These pieces of software are known as ‘Greynets’. They are multiplying constantly and, with many remaining unknown to the IT team and others difficult to locate, are damaging network performance, distracting staff, and creating a hole in network defences. Six days removed from Microsoft's emergency fix for the dangerous ANI handling vulnerability, spammers are turning to an old friend to get their scams to the masses. Count a website touting racy photos of former pop diva Britney Spears as one of about 450 that are hosting the dangerous ANI exploit, patched on Tuesday by Microsoft in an emergency release. A worm spotted by Symantec early this week and a proof-of-concept exploit for a fully patched Vista operating system are among the malware attacking the dangerous vulnerability in Microsoft Windows animated cursor handling (ANI). Users urged to exercise caution after Children in Need weekend. Less than a week after disappearing from the web, the shadowy Russian Business Network (RBN) has cut short its re-emergence in China. Apple on Monday released a new version of its popular QuickTime media player to resolve seven vulnerabilities, six of which could have been exploited to remotely install malicious code on a user's machine. Our instinct is to fix bugs when we come across them, but sometimes that can cause more harm than good. Don't take log files as absolute truth. They're only as reliable as the systems that generated them. ZoneAlarm plays in the sandbox.