The Information Commissioner's Office plans to quiz 50 large British businesses over whether they are complying with new rules to tell people about cookies on their sites, but does not envisage levying fines at first

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A branch of the UK Anonymous group called the ATeam has said it is using 'sophisticated' DDoS methods against the website of Information Commissioner's Office

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

McAfee has partnered with its parent company Intel on a scheme to improve the defence of critical infrastructure systems from cyberattacks

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Security researchers have reported a hidden backdoor in the ZTE Score M and Skate Android phones, which could give a hacker root access

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Apple has released a Flashback malware removal tool for users of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, having previously stopped support for that version of the operating system

(ZDNet UK - Security Management)

Facebook has put out an updated privacy policy with more details on cookies and targeted ads, but the changes it is proposing do not tackle all the problems, according to the Irish data protection commissioner

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

After telling customers they would have to upgrade to Creative Suite 6 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash Professional to fix critical security flaws, Adobe has backtracked and is preparing to patch them for free

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Photoshop for Creative Suite 5 has a serious security flaw that Adobe is not going to patch, forcing security-conscious users to potentially pay hundreds of pounds to upgrade to Photoshop CS6

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

A teenager has been arrested in Newcastle over alleged cyberattacks by the TeamPoison hacking group against Tony Blair and international law enforcement agencies

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The government will introduce a bill to intercept a wider range of internet communications, including those on social networks, and give police wider surveillance powers

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Up to 55,000 alleged Twitter user account passwords and email addresses have been posted online, sparking an investigation by the micro-blogging site

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

British computer users are being targeted by fraudsters who use the Blackhold exploit kit to infect a PC, then accuse the victim of piracy, lock the computer and demand payment as compensation

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Most security incidents are down to human error ? and the lack of experience and training for IT professionals dealing with IPv6 make those mistakes more likely, says Axel Pawlik

(ZDNet UK - Security Management)

In an unusual move, a group of hackers has attempted to blackmail a Belgian bank for ?150,000 over client data lifted from a compromised server

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A public-private sector information-sharing hub has revealed a campaign to break into defence contractors' systems via a tailored malicious email campaign, according to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The Serious Organised Crime Agency instructed its hosting provider to take its website offline after a distributed denial of service attack started to affect other clients

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The Flashback malware, which at its peak infected more than 600,000 Macs worldwide, may have been earning its creators in the region of $10,000 a day through ad clicks

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Microsoft has warned of new malware that exploits an old flaw in Office to attack Mac OS X machines

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The iPad maker has urged developers to start getting their apps ready for Gatekeeper, a security feature in the next version of Mac OS X designed to block malicious software

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Online scammers are switching from spam email to social-media attacks in the hunt for victims, according to security company Symantec's latest threat report

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A researcher has reported that a simple Skype exploit can reveal the remote and local IP addresses of any user logged into Skype

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The Flashback Trojan assault on 650,000 Macs should make the Apple world sit up and start taking security seriously, says Rik Ferguson

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Three people were arrested as law enforcement agencies in the UK, US and Macedonia shut down 36 websites that were acting as online shops for stolen bank card data

(ZDNet UK - Security Management)

A Microsoft security report has identified the Conficker worm as the biggest cybersecurity threat to businesses, having been detected 200 million times worldwide in the last two and a half years

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The company has confirmed that source code from its VMware ESX product was stolen, although it stressed the code dates from 2003 and 2004

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