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  • UK ISPs lockstep on P2P

    Suspected British file-sharers of copyrighted material are to receive warning letters from their internet service providers after the six largest ISPs in the UK signed a government-brokered memorandum of understanding with the country's record label association, the BPI.

  • Google balks at revealing YouTube viewing habits

    Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the site, and Google is refusing to provide that information.

  • Microsoft fixes DNS flaw but warns of Word attacks

    Microsoft is warning that a Word flaw is being used for targeted attacks, and has also issued four 'important' patches, including one for a potentially serious DNS flaw in the latest Patch Tuesday bulletin.

  • Massive, coordinated DNS patch released

    A security researcher has responsibly disclosed a fundamental flaw within the Domain Name System (DNS), the addressing scheme behind the common names used on the Internet.

  • Google pleads with Viacom for YouTube privacy

    Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright-infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.

  • Judge orders YouTube to reveal 12TB of user logs

    Dismissing privacy concerns, a US judge overseeing a US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the online video sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

  • Mac malware volumes 'spike' without pain

    Apple Mac users have a good reason to feel more secure than their PC-using cousins: compared to malicious software created for Windows systems, malware writers have left OS X in relative peace.

  • 70 arrested in NSW web child porn crackdown

    A policeman, a teacher and sports administrator are three of 70 people arrested across Australia after a six month investigation into child pornography.

  • Storm worming its way through love

    After a hiatus, the gang behind the Storm worm is attempting to exploit people's curiosity about a fictional love interest to tempt users into downloading the malware, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.

  • 20,000 Web pages help exploit 'patched' Flash flaw

    A possible zero day exploit has been discovered for a flaw in Flash thought to have been patched by Adobe a month ago.

  • Microsoft: We're not blocking YouTube

    Users of Microsoft's instant-messaging service found themselves unable to share links to YouTube videos on Friday evening and Saturday morning, sparking brief worries of a possible Microsoft-led effort to block access to the Google-owned video-sharing site

  • ICANN: IPv4 will run out by 2011

    Big businesses need to start planning now to handle changes that will take place when a new version of the Internet's fundamental routing protocol becomes ubiquitous, or risk losing online customers, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

  • Flaw turns Google into spam spewing machine

    A "serious security flaw" in Gmail turns Google's e-mail service into a spamming machine, according to a recent security report.

  • Olympic trojan horse jumping trials have begun

    Once again, criminal hackers are targeting a worldwide event to deposit their malicious software on victims' PCs, according to one security vendor.

  • Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner

    A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months a far cry from what most companies currently do.

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