Summary: Assorted new links about security

● Microsoft kills COFEE download (more here)

According to SFGate, thousands of copies have already been downloaded, so Microsoft's COFEE software is pretty much public now.

● China warns of a new virus

A PARTICULARLY NASTY computer virus has been discovered in China and the government there is warning that it could spread fast.

Although details of the Worm_Piloyd.B are fairly sketchy at the moment, it is unusual to get a virus warning from China before the rest of the world has caught it.

● Symantec Japan website bamboozled by hacker

Romanian hacker Unu used off-the-shelf tools (Pangolin and sqlmap) to steal a glimpse at the database behind Symantec's Japanese website. A peek at the Symantec store revealed by the hack appears to show clear-text passwords associated with customer records. Product keys held on a Symantec server in Japan were also exposed by the hack.