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1. Frontpage Web Hosting -- Accounts
   Derbyshire, United Kingdom - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 31, 2006 - Budget web hosting company, StreamlineNet, has released a statement concerning a new wave of phishing e-mails that they have become aware of, being sent out to consumers. According to the company, fraudsters are sending bulk e-mail pretending to be from StreamlineNet asking Customers to confirm certain secure details including their passwords. With this information the fraudsters are then able to gain access to customers hosting accounts, including e-mail, which may contain information that they can use to commit further illegal activities including identity fraud. This new style of phishing comes in the wake of sustained attacks on banks and maybe a new angle now that phishing for bank details reaches saturation.
2. Hackers -- Companies
   Hackers are taking credit for at least three breaches at anti-piracy firm MediaDefender. The newly revealed attacks threaten to turn what started as an embarrassing e-mail leak into a full-blown security meltdown for the company.
3. Gmail -- Accounts
   A new round of phishing spam, phishing for Gmail account information, along with your date of birth and citizenship, was unleashed on the Internet this week. "Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently," reads the subject.
4. Web Traffic -- Reports
   The eSafe SecureSurfing solution allows ISPs to offer a centralized security service that filters Web traffic before it reaches the surfer, freeing ISP subscribers of the hassle of maintaining desktop-based software to thwart threats such as spyware and phishing attacks. Subscribing businesses report they take advantage of the new service because their organizations cannot tolerate the higher risk and decline in production if spyware or phishing attacks affect them.
5. October -- Sets
   On October 17th, Phish played at the State Palace Theatre in New Orleans. Medeski Martin and Wood opened the show and again joined the band toward the end of the second set, when Suzy Greenberg led into Keyboard Army, during which the three guests came onstage spurring the normally mellow segment into a caucaphonous jam. After a day off and a stop for a show October 19th in Kansas City, Missouri, the band and crew rolled into Cedar Rapids, Iowa on the 20th where they began the first set with My Friend My Friend, Ya Mar, Ha Ha Ha, and Divided Sky.
6. April Fools Day -- Pranks
   The April Fools Day hoaxes are only pranks and fair games. Nowadays, different media houses too organize such fun games to entertain public. There are a number of monthly journals too, which prepare such things too in their April version.
7. Firefox -- Security
   If you move Firefox or any of its components after the first execution, even just by dragging the folder to a new location, Firefox will stop working. On first execution, Firefox notes and records its environs, then stops working for security reasons if it sees subsequent changes.
8. Firefox -- Information
   Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you’re viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox’s pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen.
9. Blue Coat Systems -- Users
   Blue Coat WebFilter is the first Web content filter to feature Real-Time Anti-Phishing protection. Most of the industry's available anti-phishing solutions provide protection solely by checking a user's Web URL requests against a database of known phishing sites. Phishing sites... are generally short-lived and each day hundreds of new ones appear, so the practice of evaluating a requested page against a static database is generally ineffective. Rather than solely depending on a database, the Blue Coat Real-Time Anti-Phishing protection technology is the first to assess a Web site "on the fly" and to examine the site based on proprietary algorithms.
10. Internet Explorer
    Some people are under the impression that Internet Explorer 7 was a clean slate in regard to security. IE7 inherited most of its code from IE6, and with it, several of the publicly known vulnerabilities that hadn't been fixed. There were some significant changes to the security zone model in IE7, but many of the known vulnerabilities had no relation with the components that were changed. After IE7 was released, several old vulnerabilities from IE6 were found to still affect the new version, and most of the other old vulnerabilities haven't yet been tested in IE7. From tested previously known vulnerabilities alone, IE7 was released with more known security vulnerabilities than Firefox had at the time, according to

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