A new way to hijack Windows machines was found by researchers in the course of some experiments. Experts at InfoSec Institute, an information security services company, tried the MITM, or man-in-the-middle, attacks that exploit features that present in recent versions of Windows to make it easy for computers to connect to networks using the next generation IPv6 protocol. According to Jack Koziol, a program manager at InfoSec Institute, the attack may also exploit features of Apple's OS X for Macs, however the proof-of-concept has not been tested on that platform.

  According to the latest report from Internet Identity security company (IID), text-to-phone phishing attacks decreased considerably in the first quarter of the current year. Thus, these attacks have dropped by 62% from the previous quarter.

In response to the reports on the vulnerability recently discovered in the latest version of Firefox on Sunday Mozilla made a statement saying that the bug is not exploitable. As is known last Thursday the company released a new version of its browser Firefox 3.5.1 which fixed a number of security holes in version 3.5 launched in June.

American largest mobile telecommunications company Verizon has reportedly filed a lawsuit against vermin who destroyed a fiber-optic cable having cut this way the whole Silicon Valley from the communications, according to the Register. The investigation launched by the U.S. authorities is to determine and arrest the attackers yet.

According to The Register, Internet security experts are alarming about the new rush of malicious software attacks that can come over the security settings of a wide variety of devices on a local area network, even when they are hardened or don't run on Windows operating systems.

Online payment service CheckFree has lost control of at least two of its domains on Tuesday in an attack that sent customers to servers run by a notorious crime gang believed to be based in Eastern Europe. One of the readers of the magazine Richard D. reported receiving a bogus secure sockets layer certificate when attempting to log in to his Mycheckfree.com account early Tuesday morning.