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The Bank of New York Mellon now says information on about 12 million people might have been on computer tapes that were lost, according to the Hartford Courant . The bank announced in May t... More >
A British hacker accused of infiltrating nearly 100 U.S. military computers just after Sept. 11 has lost his fight against extradition before the European court of human rights, reports The Guardi... More >
Laptops carried to the International Space Station in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG that steals passwords and sends them to a remote server, reports BBC News . NASA ca... More >
With the cyber attacks on Georgia, the government of Estonia is temporarily hosting Web sites of Georgia's central bank and Foreign Ministry, reports The Associated Press in a story on Newsvine.c... More >
The number of reported breaches this year already tops the total for 2007, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego. And we've still got four months to go in 2008. The non... More >
Coming on the heels of the Fedora Scholarship Program announcement, Red Hat admitted that hackers accessed infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project. InfoWorld... More >
The U.S. is hoping to extradite Leni de Abreu Neto, a Brazilian man the U.S. claims tried to rent out a botnet that would be used to send spam. InfoWorld reports that a federal grand jury i... More >
China Netcom , one of the country's largest Internet service providers, has fallen victim to the DNS flaw, according to InformationWeek . Websense discovered the attack , which will direct us... More >
A UK defense agency is calling into question the security of the TCP/IP protocol , the basic way computers communicate with outside networks, reports vnunet.com . The Centre for Protection o... More >
Multiple vulnerabilities are addressed in an update of the Opera operating system, though its makers are keeping the lid on one because it might also affect other so-far unpatched programs. Ve... More >
Nokia admits that its Series 40 operating system contains some flaws that could allows hackers to secretly install and activate applications, reports PC World . The flaws were discovered b... More >
The troubled U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has more trouble , according to an Associated Press story on Yahoo News. Someone hacked into its PBX system in Emmitsburg, Md., over the weeke... More >
The conflict between Russia and Georgia is being used to evade spam filters, reports vnunet.com . Spammers are using a fake BBC story that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is homosexual to g... More >
A configuration flaw in the Web site for the test-prep company The Princeton Review has made personal data and standardized test scores on tens of thousands of students accessible to anyone through... More >
Linux guru Linus Torvalds says he is fed up with the "security circus" that surrounds software vulnerabilities. In an e-mail exchange with Network World , Torvalds explained that security is... More >
The Air Force has put the brakes on its Cyber Command initiative at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, reports The Associated Press in a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nextgo... More >
With the "missing" laptop recovered, the Transportation Security Administration is resuming enrollment in its Clear Registered Traveler program at San Francisco and other airports. Enrollment ... More >
Security researcher Adam Gowdiak says he's found 14 security issues with the Nokia Series 40 handsets . Two vulnerabilities that involve Sun's Java technology could allow hackers to surreptitiously ... More >
Titled simply "Internet Explorer 7," a new spamming attack attempts to get users to download a fake version of the browser. According to vnunet.com , the message, which claims to be from Mi... More >
While Russia is busy bombing the former Soviet republic of Georgia, attacks also are under way against Georgia's cyber infrastructure , reports Brian Krebs at The Washington Post . Governmen... More >
By issuing a temporary restraining order, a federal judge in Massachusetts barred three MIT students from demonstrating at the Defcon security conference how the Boston subway system could be hacked ... More >
VeriSign is expected this week to roll out software to alert financial traders to the possibility of pump-and-dump scams , reports Bloomberg . The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and... More >
A quarterly index by ClearMyMail shows spam almost quadrupled in the second quarter in the UK. Royal Bank of Scotland and Orange ISP customers were the most targeted by spamming attacks, r... More >
There are plenty of interesting developments at the Black Hat security conference. The big news was security researcher Dan Kaminsky's talk , in which he said the flaw in the Domain Name Syst... More >
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky took the stage at this year's Black Hat conference to detail the domain name system (DNS) flaw he discovered, reports The Washington Post . While some 120 m... More >
E-mail security vendor MXLogic is warning of a huge increase in "CNN spam," reports TechSpot . The story says the company received 80 million of the fake "news updates" in 24 hours. The mes... More >
Eleven people are facing identity theft charges after officials cracked what appears to be the largest hacking and identity theft ring ever exposed, according to The International Herald Tribune . ... More >
Firewall vendors like Cisco, Juniper and Citrix are scrambling to fix a problem that can undo a feature that was introduced in the DNS patches , according to InfoWorld . Firewall software th... More >
A survey of attendees at this year's RSA Conference reveals that 89 percent of data breaches went unreported in 2007. The report seems to echo a recent study by Verizon Business Security So... More >
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