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• Hackers send flood of bogus Microsoft updates

  On the day that Microsoft announced details of its next round of monthly patches, fraudsters have sent out a wave of emails disguised as messages from the software behemoth in a bid to take control of thousands of computers.

• Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers

  Speaking in London on Monday at a technical briefing on the need for next generation firewalls, Microsoft security technology architect Fred Baumhardt outlined some of the gaps that traditional firewalls are leaving open.

• Hackers hijack Microsoft DRM

  Hackers are using the digital rights management feature in Microsoft's Windows Player to fool people into downloading spyware and viruses, a security company claimed on Wednesday.

• Microsoft: Bitlocker key to safe disk disposal

  Microsoft claims that businesses planning to use Vista together with its Bitlocker hard drive encryption technology will have an easy and safe way to dispose of their hard disks.

• Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

  But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.

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• Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

  But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.

• Xombe Trojan poses as Microsoft warning

  An e-mail pretending to be a Windows XP security update harbours a malicious Trojan horse that could let hackers build an "army of zombie computers."

• Lessons to be learnt from Sasser

  We had the tools to stop the worm dead in its tracks, but it still exacted a high toll in lost productivity, and in the case of the sailors at sea around the coast of England, created a real risk to life.

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