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Microsoft Surface will be getting some play time at Super Bowl XLIII. According to Ars Technica , the device will display a Microsoft Virtual Earth map of the area that will provide real-time infor... More >
Although three Los Alamos National Laboratory computers were "taken" from a scientist's home and another employee's BlackBerry was lost in an unidentified "sensitive foreign country," officials say... More >
FOXNews.com reports that hackers were able to alter a portable traffic sign in Austin, Texas to read, "Zombies Ahead." The hack occurred during the early hours of Jan. 19, but reverted back ... More >
Rajendrasinh Makwana, a former Fannie Mae computer-engineering employee, is accused of creating a malware computer time bomb that could have destroyed millions of files, reports Network World . &n... More >
According to a survey by McAfee, IT decision makers are concerned that laid-off employees will become a big security threat . Thirty-six percent were concerned about security problems caused by empl... More >
WebSense is going to clean out spam and malware on blogs, user forums and social-networking sites, thanks to its purchase of social media anti-spam firm Defensio . According to vnunet.com , ... More >
The Veterans Affairs Department has agreed to a $20 million settlement with veterans whose identities were compromised in the theft of a laptop loaded with Social Security numbers and other sensiti... More >
Macs have been hit by two Trojan horses , reports The Wall Street Journal . The first was discovered last week by security firm Intego and affects versions of Apple's iWork 09 productivity s... More >
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is looking for ideas on how to fix the misuse of fast flux , a technique that allows administrators to quickly point a Web site's doma... More >
According to research from AVG Technologies, malicious Web sites are on the rise , but the time those Web sites are online is declining. InfoWorld reports that AVG is seeing between 200,000 ... More >
After purchasing an MP3 player from a thrift shop in Oklahoma, New Zealander Chris Ogle found confidential data concerning U.S. military personnel still on it. BBC News reports that about 60 file... More >
NetGear has a new line of security threat management products that help SMBs block spam, remove e-mail-borne malware and protect against Web-based malware. According to eWEEK , the STM Serie... More >
Talk about timing! Just as the ranks of the unemployed are rising, Monster.com reports that its database has been illegally accessed . According to InfoWorld , Monster.com user IDs and passw... More >
The latest e-mail scam purports to be electronic receipts for airline tickets bought with a credit card. But the files include attachments typically named Your_ETicket.zip that download a Trojan, ... More >
More than 800 computers in the city hospital network of Sheffield, England, have been infected with the self-replicating Conficker code after managers turned off Windows security updates on the 8,0... More >
The federal government is beefing up security of its Internet routing system in a plan expected to take four years or more to implement, reports Network World . Spending at the Department o... More >
The state of New York is set to start taking application security a lot more seriously. InternetNews reports the Empire State's procurement contracts will now include language that takes applicatio... More >
Two months after the shutdown of hosting firm McColo, spam levels remain low , reports vnunet.com . Immediately following the suspension of McColo's internet access , spam levels dropped ,... More >
Pennsylvanian Thomas Swingler is facing federal criminal charges for allegedly selling hacked cable modems capable of stealing Internet service from broadband providers, reports Wired . Swi... More >
More than 30 U.S. and international cybersecurity organizations have come up with a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors , reports InformationWeek . Apple, CERT, Microsoft and Or... More >
A Ukrainian man linked to the infamous TJX hack was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Turkey and fined $23,000 on unrelated charges. According to The Register , the court found Maksym Yastr... More >
A worm that is attacking a vulnerability in Windows Server service, which Microsoft patched back in October , also is attacking USB devices. According to ZDNet , F-Secure has discovered that... More >
A couple months ago, Microsoft was the big name on Spamhaus 's Top 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs. This month, Google was ranked third by the nonprofit organization that tracks spam operations ... More >
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has spilled over into the Internet, with hacker groups defacing popular Israeli Web sites , reports vnunet.com . Thousands of Web sites have been affected. A... More >
Only days after Twitter was hit with a phishing scam , the popular social networking tool is trying to fix a mess surrounding a separate hacking attack. NetworkWorld reports that several hi... More >
Data breaches were up nearly 50 percent in 2008 and the personal records of at least 35.7 million Americans were exposed, according to figures by the Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego. &nb... More >
Blogging platform JournalSpace is down the tubes after a former IT employee deleted its database on his way out the door, reports TechCrunch . The company had no backup. The 6-year-old comp... More >
Six IT companies in Bangalore, India, received an e-mail last week threatening to blow up their buildings, reports Network World . Police say the e-mail originated in the city and must be taken se... More >
Managed security services provider Verisign is bagging its MD5 digital certificates a month early after researchers went public with a flaw that could allow hackers to steal customer data, reports C... More >
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