London hosts the eighth international E-Crime Congress focused on the prevention of internet fraud and developing prevention strategies.

McAfee’s “DAT” file version 5958 is causing widespread problems with Windows XP SP3.The routine anti-virus update confused a valid Windows file with a virus, disrupting millions of computers around the world.Universities,hospitals and businesses were among those reporting problems after the update misidentified a valid Windows system file as malicious code and caused computers to continually reboot.The affected systems will enter a reboot loop and lose all network access.The bad DAT file may infect individual workstations as well as workstations connected to a domain.

A DORSET NHS trust’s website was temporarily taken down after it was targeted by a group of hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army Team.

Users logging on to the Dorset HealthCare NHS Trust website on Monday night found the cyber bandits’ calling card with a link to a .com website showing a bearded man waving a semi-automatic weapon.

The text is mainly a mixture of Arabic and Farsi and the site appears to act as a message exchange for groups of mujahideen, or Muslim freedom fighters.

Since the early 1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense has been worried about the threat posed to its myriad computer systems by malicious outside intrusion. Since 1995, DoD systems have been regularly attacked, up to 250,000 times a year, and only about one of every 50 attacks is detected and reported. This primer lays out the progress of the Defense Department’s response to the threat to its information networks.