Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is advising customers about unrequested e-mails they may receive for a special invitation from The Oprah Winfrey Show to attend a show taping. The e-mails are unauthorized and part of a con intended to defraud money or gain personal information from consumers.

Canada's biggest internet service providers have announced that they are installing filters to block illegal child exploitation content from their customers.

Efforts to eliminate piracy have been with computers since it became possible to make a copy of a program and run it on another computer successfully. Anti-piracy software, code wheels, license keys, hardware dongles and more all failed in some way, either through the use of a master key code, a crack that changed trial software into the full version, eliminated the check for dongles, or somehow picked the lock of anti-protections.

IT security vendor, Sophos, has presented a new version of Sophos Anti-Virus which supports the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, including the much debated Patchguard kernel locker.

AttackAPI provides simple and intuitive web programmable interface for composing attack vectors with JavaScript and other client and server related technologies. This is the 2.x branch which among other improvements introduces better interaction with the attack subroutines.

The Month of Kernel Bugs has so far produced a list of 22 operating system bugs. Linux leads in the statistics; nevertheless the bugs found are mostly susceptible only to denial of service attacks by local users.

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We might joke about the "Great Firewall of China", but by the end of 2007 content blocking will be a fact of Internet life in the UK.

In two recent studies of anti-phishing tools, one (sponsored by Microsoft) rated Internet Explorer highest, whilst the second (carried out for Mozilla) put the latest version of FireFox at the top of the list. Now a third, completely independent study has said that all phishing filters miss considerable numbers of suspect sites, are short on usability and suffer false positives.

Grisoft's release of two new versions of its AVG security tools for open source operating systems Linux and FreeBSD recommend that there's nowhere secure to hide from computer viruses anymore.