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The NHS has had to admit to losing a laptop containing thousands of patient details. Metasploit, the hacking tools site which is widely used by white hat hackers, has itself fallen victim to ARP poisoning, which led to the defacement of the site Local authority races to upgrade its system security as the second teenager in five months breaches its network defences, copying 55,000 records The Best Western hotel chain has reportedly suffered what is being claimed as the world's largest cybercrime, resulting in the identity theft of eight million customers. A flaw in Kaspersky's Online Scanner could be exploited by malicious hackers to compromise a user's system. We are fans of open-source software and Helix 1.9 falls into this category. Helix has two components, each with its own set of utilities. The first component is the Windows element, which can be started on a booted Windows system by simply inserting the CD into the drive. Corrupted cursor files could deliver malicious payloads. Protecting users from internet-borne threats falls on trusted websites, says Overstock's Sam Peterson. Dan Kaplan reports. Security experts at Symantec issued a warning yesterday about an exploit spotted in the wild for an as yet unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's XML core services. The Hitachi ID-Archive sets its focus on password randomisation. On the surface, RoboForm Enterprise starts out looking like a single sign-on product, but that is just on the surface. With flaws in many new products, vendors should listen a bit more to the research community perhaps The old stock market mantra -- buy low, sell high -- could prove especially useful if you call your broker on Patch Tuesday. People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). Another one bites the dust: Sony PlayStation's website is the latest victim of the mass SQL attacks. Aussie companies underestimate the advancements in encryption technology and fail to secure data. The antivirus/perimeter approach to security is dead, and targeted attacks could very well be the final nail in the AV coffin. Hackers used sophisticated methods to evade detection and place malware on nearly 300 Hannaford Bros. store servers to intercept payment information during the credit card transaction process, the grocery chain told Massachusetts authorities. Shareholders at networking solutions provider 3Com on Friday voted to approve a US$2.2 billion buyout, despite the deal being halted a day earlier over U.S. security concerns. A major new initiative was launched today in the UK designed to reduce information security failures in organisations by raising security awareness levels.