Twelve more phishers caught in the Net

Twelve more arrests have followed investigations by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (HTCU) into the practice of 'Phishing', which involves duping online users to divulge bank account details (either by email or bogus websites). Last week, in the first of its kind, a lone UK man was arrested for phishing. This time, however, a more organised gang have been investigated, consisting of six men and six women from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and the Ukraine. ...more

F-Secure warns of bogus McAfee email

Finnish security company F-Secure said yesterday it had received numerous reports of an email in circulation that appeared to be from McAfee, which instructed recipients to download a bogus update which was in fact a virus. The email contained a link to a webpage that appeared to be associated with McAfee and requested the download of a file in order to protect against an invented virus called Kongo31.XRW. ...more

Hackers take axe to Internet root servers

Three of the world's 13 root DNS servers have come under fire in a distributed denial of service attack that lasted hours. These computers manage the routing of traffic on the Internet, and the offensive was thought to be one of the biggest seen in the last four years. According to reports, the offensive lasted around 12 hours on Tuesday, although most Internet users didn't notice it. ...more

Microsoft launches IE7 for Vista

Microsoft has announced a new version of Internet Explorer 7 especially developed for the forthcoming Vista operating system. The new version which has been dubbed Internet Explorer 7+ adds features that are not available in the version currently planned for existing versions of Windows. The announcement was made by IE team member Tony Schreiner in the Microsoft Internet Explorer blog. ...more

iTunes glitch gives Arctic Monkeys top spot

The Arctic Monkeys must be thanking whoever it was at the iTunes Store that helped them dominate the UK music charts last week. The band's album Favourite Worst Nightmare topped the album charts at the weekend, at the same time that 17 of its tracks featured in the top 200 singles chart. Two made it into the Top 75. ...more