BRUSSELS -- Microsoft is working to hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. charged in a full-page ad in yesterday's Financial Times.

McAfee, Symantec, and other security software companies argue Microsoft's new Vista operating system will make it more difficult to protect customers because, for the first time, they have been denied access to the core of the operating system.

A new anti-phishing resource is available for all who have been victims of these security incidents.
Being a community effort, anybody can report phishing sites at http://www.phishtank.com/ so don't hesitate and start fighting back on phishing !

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 2 -- The Identity Theft Resource
Center(TM) (ITRC) has launched a new, nationwide, educational program to teach defensive identity theft consumer behavior for teens. It will be
available for free through their website, http://www.idtheftcenter.org starting October 2, 2006.

London and Karlsruhe (Germany) xx September 2006 ? Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.co.uk), a leader in providing unified threat management security solutions, has announced today that Astaro Security Gateway V6.300 has received the coveted Common Criteria certification from the German Federal Office for Information Security BSI (Bundesamt f?r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik).