Office 2007 left unprotected by update snafu   21 May 2007 13:00 GMT
Office 2007 users running Windows Vista may not have received several of this month's patches, Microsoft Corp. said.
Source: Computerworld

Symantec: The computer did it   21 May 2007 13:00 GMT
Symantec said today that its automated threat analysis system yielded a buggy virus signature late last week that crippled millions of Chinese PCs.
Source: Computerworld

News Briefs   21 May 2007 08:59 GMT
Short IT news items.
Source: Computerworld

At Deadline Briefs   21 May 2007 08:59 GMT
Short, late-breaking IT news items.
Source: Computerworld

XML format for antiphishing info to go live in July   21 May 2007 08:59 GMT
The secretary general of the Anti-Phishing Working Group reported at AusCERT this week that a common XML format for electronically reporting fraudulent activities will be fully operational by July 2007.
Source: Computerworld

Krstic: Entrusting end users an outdated idea   21 May 2007 08:59 GMT
At the AusCERT (Australia Computer Emergency Response Team) 2007 conference on Monday, Ubuntu expert and keynote speaker Ivan Krstic blasted current security thinking, which he said allows end users to make too many decisions and focuses on the wrong problems.
Source: Computerworld

Chinese PC users still contending with Symantec signature foul-up   21 May 2007 08:59 GMT
Problems with a Symantec virus-signature update continued to spread to Chinese computers over the weekend, with government estimates of the number of affected machines running into the millions.
Source: Computerworld

Global Dispatches   21 May 2007 08:59 GMT
Norwegian officials are evaluating a recommendation that ODF become the governments standard file format; a laptop computer containing social service case notes on children residing in an English city was sold on eBay.
Source: Computerworld

New and 'improved' Gozi Trojan version on the loose   19 May 2007 13:00 GMT
An updated version of the Gozi trojan has been making the rounds on the Net for a month, and according to the researcher who found it, this one has keylogging abilities as well as a heretofore unseen "packer" utility designed to confound standard AV tools.
Source: Computerworld

Blame laptop bags for rising thefts?   18 May 2007 18:17 GMT
Research by silicon.com says that people who advertise that they're packing a laptop are more likely to have it stolen.
Source: ZDNet