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Russia has overtaken China as the world’s highest producer of spyware and viruses according to researchers at security vendor PC Tools. The number of new malicious websites rose by 58 per cent in June to its highest level since April 2007, security experts warned today. UK's highest court has quashed Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against an extradition order. A US court report on wiretapping shows that the phenomenon is up by 20 per cent on last year, reaching its highest ever level, with not even a single surveillance application turned down in the whole of 2007. Preventing data breaches is the highest priority for today’s IT security professionals, two new surveys have concluded. Remote and branch workers are judged to be the highest security risks by IT managers, but sales staff are considered the worst offenders in consuming network bandwidth for non-work related activities, according to recent research by network optimisation firm Blue Coat Systems.. A court in Alaska has ruled that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin must hand over emails sent via a private webmail account. Spam email messages have fallen by eight per cent thanks to the demise on 20 September of California-based ISP Intercage, according to security vendor MessageLabs. In an advisory, Cisco Systems notified users of 12 security patches to fix vulnerabilities in its Internet Operating System (IOS) Software and Unified Communications Manager.

Alternative web browser Opera has delivered an update to address seven critical vulnerabilities. Lawyers for Gary McKinnon, the hacker who broke into Nasa computers, have appealed to the Home Secretary in a bid to stop him being jailed in the US. Spammed malware activity boomed over the month of July, according to Google. The DNS cache poisoning, has got security firms scrambling to provide protection.
The days of visiting a trusted website and expecting it to be safe are done and dusted. All too often, people are victims of identity theft. Less common, but perhaps more dangerous, is the growing trend of medical identity fraud. McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign.. Adobe has issued fixes for a critical vulnerability being exploited by malware writers. Two crimeservers containing 500 megabytes of stolen data have been discovered in Argentina and Malaysia. Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into US government computers, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, can protest his extradition to America in Britain's highest court, a three-judge panel ruled today.
The latest Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has deleted online game password-stealing malware from some two million machines.