As per the information forwarded by the Microsoft Security Response Center, for the forthcoming Patch Tuesday, December 8, Microsoft will release six security bulletins - three of which have been rated as 'critical,' and three as 'important.'

With the University of East Anglia's administrators working out a way to launch an independent inquiry into the infamous incident of leaked documents of its Climatic Research Unit, the director of the unit, Phil Jones - whose correspondence was hacked - temporarily stepped down on Tuesday.

According to information forwarded by an unnamed source in-the-know, details pertaining to the analysis of the email and documents’ hack at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) will likely be made public next week.

In their Tuesday-released report about the stepped-up pace of climate change, three scientists - Richard Somerville of Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Michael Mann of Penn State; and Eric Steig of University of Washington – said that last week’s leaked emails controversy was apparently a part of a “smear campaign,” attempting to wreck the climate summit in Copenhage

A recent security note from security vendor Intego has revealed that 'jailbroken' iPhones are being targeted and added to a mobile botnet by a new worm, Duh.

Thus far, the virus has been scanning the IP addresses of the Internet service providers in the Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal, and Australia.

Breaking into the electronic files of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain, hackers this week breached and posted over 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents.

In its all-encompassing fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report released on Tuesday, security firm McAfee has cautioned that warfare can extend to the cyber arena - with countries like Russia, China, France, Israel and the US quietly involved in the process of expanding their computerized armory.

Upgrading the webOS, Palm has released the 1.3.1 update which aims at fixing certain vulnerabilities and reinforcing increased security. However, the updated webOS firmware does not re- establish Palm Pre's sync with Apple iTunes.

Though Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' updates did not figures any fixes for the newly-launched Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft said on Friday that, with a zero-day vulnerability detected in the OS, it is working towards fixing a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 that can remotely crash the computer.

According to a warning issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, cases of theft and loss of data from records of prominent organizations and institutions have, over the past 1 year, risen to a level which has been termed as "unacceptable" by authorities.