8 in 10 U.S. firms lost laptops with data / Social sites new spyware nest
Hackers target latest Windows fixWorms have been spotted in the wild that uses an exploit for the vulnerability addressed by Microsoft's MS06-040 update. - BBC News
AOL looks to strike spammer's gold in Mass.
Internet service provider AOL is seeking the court's permission to dig for gold bars that a convicted spammer may have buried on his family's property. - CIO Magazine
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AOL: You've got gold - InternetWeek.com
AOL to hunt down spammer's gold - Reuters
Bug hunters want vendor disclosure
Security researchers are now asking software vendors for more information about, what the vendors are doing to fix the flaws found by the researchers. - CNET News.com
Windows Vista beta gets two security patches
Two of the recently released critical patches issued by Microsoft is targeted towards Beta 2 of Windows Vista. - Computer Weekly
Berlusconi 'death' trojan targets users
A new trojan disguises itself as a fake news report about the death of Iltaly's Silvio Berlusconi. - Computer Weekly
81 % of U.S. firms lost laptops with sensitive data last year
According to a survey loss of laptops with sensitive information is a widespread problem among U.S. firms. - Computerworld
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DOT says it has lost two laptops this year - Computerworld
Consumer group slammed for creating 'test' viruses
ConsumerReports.org is being criticized by anti-virus firms for creating 5.500 new viruses as part of a test of anti-virus products. - Computerworld
Internet crimes reach record high in Japan
Internet related crimes are rising in Japan, where especially Internet auctions are a major concern. - Computerworld
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Web auction fraud leads surge in Japan cybercrime - Reuters
FTC, AG blame 'extorsionware' for pop-up hell
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the state of Washington has sued a number of people involved with software that delivers pop-ups that tells the user to pay to get rid of the ads. - InformationWeek
Military research aims to develop secure wireless nets
Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense research fund DARPA, researchers are working on a self-configuring secure wireless network. - Network World Fusion
Spyware infection rates on the rise
Social network sites such as MySpace.com is becoming a new hotbed for spyware distribution. - NewsFactor
Related of interest:
Social sites open door to malware - Vnunet.com
Yahoo plugs another web mail hole
Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability in the company's popular webbased mail service that could have given hackers access to users' mailboxes. - SC Magazine UK/US
Treasury report: IRS email systems insecure
The majority of employees of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service violates the personal use policy for the department's email systems. - SC Magazine UK/US
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