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• San Fran gets codes to hijacked network

  The computer network hostage crisis in San Francisco is over, thanks to the city's mayor.

• Inside the San Fran network lockout

  A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears.

• First iPhone antivirus app released

  Paris-based computer security firm Intego late last week said it had released the first antivirus software for Apple's iPhone handset.

• San Francisco admin hijacks city network

  A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out.

• Hackers hijack ICANN sites

  On Thursday, the domains used by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, were hijacked to redirect users to a protest message.

• ING Direct: No secure pipe for Aussie bankers

  ING Direct Australia says it will not follow its US arm and give free security software to its local customers.

• Spam turns 30 - still no end in sight

  This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of e-mail inboxes everywhere: the first known spam e-mail was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.

• Microsoft blamed for Google Docs flaw threat

  Google has fixed a flaw in Google Docs that allowed an attacker to hijack sessions on any Google service but security experts say that the real damage is being caused by Internet Explorer, not Google's technology.

• Barbed search terms threaten Web users

  A million search queries have been "poisoned" at dozens of well-known Web sites over the past several weeks, according to security analyst Dancho Danchev.

• Virus encyclopaedia infects visitors with malware

  Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages.

• Australia exposed as card skimmers target IKEA

  A mass card skimming attack on a Swedish IKEA store has highlighted the dangers Australian consumers face while banks and retailers fight it out over who foots the bill for chip and PIN.

• Windows-based ATMs an easy touch for hackers

  Security experts have hacked ATMs to show how easy it is to steal money and bank account details from modern cash machines.

• 3.6 million adults fall for phishing scams

  More than a million users were duped by phishing attacks last year, compared to the year before.

• Staff threaten network security from home

  Companies are being exposed to risks by home workers' bad behaviour online, such as hijacking the neighbour's Wi-Fi and opening unsafe e-mails.

• Domain bureaucrats: Bungling the .gov.au space

  Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.

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