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The National E-security Awareness Week was launched today to help Australians understand e-security risks and how they can protect themselves online. The infamous Storm botnet has been linked to a new spam run recorded earlier this week. A security researcher involved in defending against last year's Web attacks on Estonia has shared his account of the crisis, and is offering advice on how to prevent similar assaults in the future.. Sloppy site developers are to blame for a recent rash of SQL web server attacks estimated to have compromised hundreds of thousands of websites, a security firm claimed today.. A new targeted phishing attack is attempting to dupe users into downloading malware by sending bogus court subpoenas.. R&D budgets, outsourcing models and support services. Microsoft PowerPoint users have been targeted by a trojan that acts as a layered service provider (LSP), Symantec reported this week. Users of the popular social networking website Myspace.com were warned against downloading videos from friends after it was revealed that the videos led to adware being installed on computers. The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks. Half a million websites have been infected with a new round of malware attack and poorly implemented website configurations have been blamed.
Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email.
Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report. Social networking giant Facebook has defended its security and privacy controls in the face of criticism from industry experts, at this year's Infosecurity Europe show in London. Microsoft has called on companies to work together to improve overall security, and not just rely on the police to do it for them. RSA's chief technology officer thinks security should be left to experts. He tells Paul Fisher why he's no fan of employee awareness training. As long as there has been credit granting there have been customers committing first party fraud. A malware attack targeting search engine results is continuing to haunt several high-profile sites.. Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a click-fraud trojan targeted to the online advertising networks of Google, Yahoo and Baidu.com, China's largest independent internet search engine. Spammers, hoping to score thousands of dollars after ditching the stock they've flimflammed targets into purchasing, are inundating email boxes with one of the largest pump-and-dump scams in history. New worm targets nostalgia for Nintendo games: attachment could cause havoc.