This week in security news
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T-Mobile says an online attacker had gained access to its network. Also: Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university.
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Automatic delivery of the security update will resume this week.
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Last week, Microsoft released a security bulletin reporting vulnerability in the graphics subsystem in Windows and a wide range of Microsoft products.
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Company updates Mac OS X Security Update it released early last week.
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Microsoft was not alone to release a security update to one of their applications this week (they updated the firewall, which was shipped with Windows XP).
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Thursday's alpha 8 release exposes several new security features to the public for the first time.
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Also: Hackers rig Google to deliver malware. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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See a roundup of the week's news and events, from a dictator's demise to a meteor's blaze of glory to a tiger "trapped" by a remote camera.
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Also: Electronic devices seized at border searches. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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roundup Plus: Hyperion targets broader base...JBoss ships J2EE app server...Firms bundle Web services wares...PMC-Sierra lowers forecast.
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As often is the case over holiday breaks, three new vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system were discovered over the weekend.
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As Chris Shiflett mentions today, there's a new web development security aggregation site that's been launched - Planet-Websecurity.org [feed]. Christian Matthies has headed up the project:   Those of you who have spoken to me recently may already be aware of this project, but for those who don't, I am pleased to announce the launch of Planet Websecurity, founded with the intention to bring together similarly themed news and rants related to Web security and to display them in one place.   Included in the list of blogs/sites aggregated are the blogs of: Chris Shiflett, Robert Hansen, Sid Karunaratne and Christian himself.
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roundup Plus: Turn your fingerprints into passwords...IBM gives grants to universities...Sun expands pay-as-you go supercomputing.
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A few things you may not have caught in last week's news.
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A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Europe Correspondent Catherine Drew. LONDON : Britain has suffered its second major security breach in less than a week after some protestors at the House of Commons, managed to break
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The Story: Even when there?s good news on the security front, there always seems to be bad news to balance it out. And while we think this news is important for you to know, it?s not an exception to the Good News/Bad News Syndrome.[ Slideshow: 2007's top underreported tech stories ]                                                    The use of e-mail-borne executable virus attachments dropped sharply in 2007. In particular, spammers have dialed back their use of so-called image spam, which tricks filters by embedding text within an attached image.According to IronPort Systems, outbreaks of viruses embedded in e-mail attachments totaled 860 in 2006 and 844 in 2005. But as of mid-October 2007, attacks totaled just 360. Dave Mayer, an IronPort product manager, said it?s likely that outbreaks will total 450 by the end of the year ? a drop of 47 percent. It appears that evildoers are moving on: ?Traditional viruses have been around for years, a long enough time to harden defenses against malicious attachments,? he said.Earlier in the year, IronPort, Symantec, and McAfee all noted that image spam, which appeared about two years ago, is waning, now that defenses have improved. Filters have now gotten better at scanning the contents of the attachments, leading spammers to link instead to images elsewhere.Mayer, whose company specializes in e-mail and Web security, says spammers are now placing those images on free photo-sharing sites ? the ones people use to send vacation photos to friends and family ? and embedding links to those images in their junk messages. These are difficult for spam filters to block because the same sites are used for legitimate photos as well.But as the abuse of e-mail attachments has declined, other types of threats have escalated. For example, outbreaks of macro viruses, aimed at Office-type applications, have risen by 50 percent to 60 percent while URL viruses climbed by at least 250 percent this year, IronPort found.The Bottom Line: It often seems as if the number of threats that you must be on guard against only increases, stretching your resources past the limits. But the truth is that threat profiles change over time, and some things you may be investing in are no longer as great a threat or are now handled by the tools you have in place. So, although you can?t get lax about security, you can focus more on newer threats.Complete list of 2007 underreported tech stories: 1.? Java is becoming the new Cobol 2.? Sun Microsystems is back in the game 3.? Hackers take aim at Mac OS X 4.? There are some threats you can worry less about 5.? Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits 6.? Open source?s new commercial strategy 7.? End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives 8.? Blade servers arrive for the masses 9.? BI is dead; long live BI 10. Balance of power shifts to software buyers