The Community side Phishtank published a first phishing statistics for the month Octobers. Phishtank collects messages from users over phishing server and attempted frauds. The data flow among other things into OpenDNS, a service like the official root name servers upstream filters work, however the recognized name area not manipulated. The OpenDNS servers try to recognize the inquiry after well-known phishing servers and reroute OpenDNS users on warning sides.

The US-American commercial authority Federal Trade Commission (FTC) punished the disputed software provider Zango because of the smuggling of Adware on computers of US-American users. The punishing payment of 3 million US Dollar is a component of an agreement out of court, according to which Zango may install advertising software in the future only after express agreement of the users. Besides the enterprise must offer a possibility for uninstalling the program.

The release of an exploit that means a hacker, who happens to be on the same local area network, can knock over Windows Firewall on machines running XP has created a lot of publicity, despite being not much of a threat.

By using the exploit, an attacker could disable Windows Firewall on a fully patched machine running Internet Connection Service (ICS).

A second security flaw that could cause the new Firefox 2 browser to crash has been publicly disclosed.

The vulnerability lies in the way the open-source browser handles JavaScript code. Viewing a rigged Web page will cause the browser to exit, a representative for Mozilla, the publisher of the software, said Wednesday. Contrary to claims on security mailing lists, the bug cannot be exploited to run arbitrary code on a PC running Firefox 2, the representative said.

UK citizens will be tracked by RFID tags embedded in their clothes and have their movements monitored by unmanned "flying eyes in the sky" using facial recognition systems within 10 years, the nation's data protection watchdog has claimed.

In a new report entitled a Surveillance Society, information commissioner Richard Thomas predicts a world in 2016 where technology is extensively and routinely used to track and record people's activities and movements.

Doug Yarrow, co-chief executive of privately held Symark Software, a maker of ID and access control technology, says companies can be worried that newcomers might snatch data or otherwise abuse corporate databases.

Yarrow says companies also find that they must monitor even "trusted users" and longtime workers. He says trusted insiders often get total access to a company's system -- the virtual keys to its information technology kingdom.

Virus writers obviously try to use the reputation of the free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia of malware for the infection of PCs with harming software. In one on Tuesday of yesterday Mass mail spread the receivers requested, an alleged safety update for Windows of a Wikipedia web page to download.

Cisco referred in an error report to a weak point in Cisco the Security agent management center (CSAMC), with which an unauthorized user can cheat and as administrator announce himself. Over the Security agent management center the Security Agents (CSA) for Clients and servers over the net are configured. An aggressor could deactivate the protection with privileged rights by CSAs on all devices.

According to a Bugtraq entry there is already again a new gap in the Internet Explorer 6, with which an aggressor can break in into a Windows computer. The Internet Explorer 7 should not be concerned. In order to become victim of an attack, is sufficient it after representation of the error report to call a web page which contains a prepared Javascript. A cause of the gap should be an error in the WScript.Shell object, over which into the computer transfer they code and lets with the rights of the user start. The author of the error report Michal Bucko in a pdf document makes closer information available in addition.