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Hackers whose efforts cause the death of a person will face the death penalty in Pakistan. HMRC has radically improved its data security measures since the breach which caused it to lose 25 million child benefit records in October last year. Microsoft fixed six vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical, with four patches in its May Patch Tuesday round this week. All were file-format vulnerabilities impacting client-side Windows machines rather than servers. Microsoft announced late Thursday that it plans to push out four patches, three to address critical vulnerabilities, in Tuesday's monthly security update. The twisters and historic floods sweeping across the US will give rise to malicious attacks, the SANS Storm Center warned on Friday. What happens when "good enough" just isn't good enough anymore? Spammers preyed on popular current events in May capitalising on the global economic slowdown, petrol prices and natural disasters. A security researcher at the University of California says the Storm Worm could be coming to an end, based on his tracking data.
Some users of the Sony PlayStation network may have had their passwords changed and personal information exposed through unauthorized access, the gaming platform provider has disclosed. A Ukrainian hacker may be allowed to keep over US$250,000 in profits owing to a loophole in US law. An error in the way in which the Firefox and Opera browsers handle image files could allow an attacker to export a user's web history or crash the Firefox browser, a Polish researcher and US-CERT have warned. The infamous storm worm trojan, which first hit inboxes in January, is poised to become a for-sale spam botnet system, complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities. With online viewing the only option for many college basketball fans this week, businesses run the risk of employee productivity declines, bandwidth overloads and security threats, experts say. Whether you've been hacked or suspect an employee of wrongdoing, knowing how to preserve evidence is crucial. Derek Parkinson reports. 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.
Apple's new iPhone may never be secure, according to an encryption expert who believes that the device is "too powerful". Though worldwide spam levels are still diminished in the wake of the McColo hosting-company shutdown, it may only be a matter of time before they come roaring back. Identity theft has become a multi-billion dollar issue that continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multi-million dollar business, says Deloitte's Mark Steinhoff. Security professionals weigh in on what may have caused the most recent high-profile personal account breach -- this one involving French President Nicolas Sarkozy. There's vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, but what about vulnerability analysis? Before you tell me that I'm just playing with words, stop for a sec and consider: it's one thing to assess what vulnerabilities may be in a system.