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WIRED
Comcast.net Hijackers Sentenced To 18 Months
Jail sentence follows stunt that replaced Comcast home page with shout out to other hackers

NEW YORK TIMES
India's Surveillance Plan Said To Deter Business
Government's insistence on being able to decrypt digital messages could deter businesses from operating in the country

FORTINET
Zeus In The Mobile (Zitmo): Online Banking's Two-Factor Authentication Defeated
New mobile malware is designed to intercept SMS messages sent by banks as confirmation

WIKIPEERS
China's Industrial Security Threatened By Web "Superbug"
Stuxnet has become a threat to the Chinese economy, experts say

CISCO
Cisco Security Tracks LinkedIn Spam Attack
Cisco researchers call it "the largest such attack to date"

TOWNHALL.COM
Judge: Verdict Stands In Hacked Palin E-Mail Case
A federal judge upheld the convictions of a former University of Tennessee student for hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail account during the 2008 campaign

KREBS ON SECURITY
Spam Affiliate Program Spamit.com To Close
Spamit will close up shop at the end of September, noting increased public attention to its program

FOX NEWS
U.S. Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority
The Obama administration is developing a plan to require encrypted BlackBerry email, Facebook, and Skype services to comply with federal wiretap orders, a report said

HOMESECURITY SOURCE
Top 5 Credit/Debit Card Skimming Attacks
ATM-skimming accounts for $350,000 in fraud each day, and more than $1 billion in losses each year, the U.S. Secret Service says

MICROSOFT SECURITY RESPONSE CENTER BLOG
Workaround Updated For Security Advisory
Microsoft has added a step to the workaround for Security Advisory 2416728 that helps block attackers from exploiting the vulnerability

THE NEW NEW INTERNET
Hackers Steal Hundreds of Credit-Card Numbers From Restaurant Patrons
Police in Roseville, Calif., say nearly 200 customers had their credit-card numbers stolen after patronizing local restaurants

INFOSEC ISLAND
Few BitLocker-Equipped PCs Encrypt Data
Only 1.47 percent of Windows PCs with the BitLocker feature actually use the encryption, OPSWAT says

HELP NET SECURITY
USB Drive Identifies And Extracts Data, Leaving No Footprint
Harris Corp. has rolled out a customizable USB thumb drive that rapidly extracts targeted data from computers and is aimed at military, intelligence, and law enforcement

INFOSECURITY
Senate Hears Testimony On National Data Breach Legislation
Industry and government representatives testified before a Senate subcommittee about a proposed national data breach notification law -- but with November elections just around the corner, no one knows whether it will get through

STOREFRONT BACKTALK
Amazon Deliberately Bypassing Site Privacy, Says Carnegie Mellon
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University says Amazon uses a privacy loophole in Internet Explorer to get its cookies onto customers' PCs, whether they want them or not

COMPUTERWORLD
FBI Investigating 'Here You Have' Worm
The FBI has launched an investigation into the "Here you have" worm that disrupted corporate e-mail systems in the U.S. two weeks ago

THREAT POST
Google Warning Gmail Users On China Spying Attempts
Google is using automated warnings to alert Gmail users about attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China

EWEEK
Facebook Outage Triggered by Database Software Error
Facebook says a software flaw that crippled its database clusters caused the worst outage at the social network in four years

SC MAGAZINE
PCI Council: P2PE Simplifies PCI DSS Compliance
The PCI Standards Council will publish a guidance document on point-to-point encryption (P2PE), also commonly known as end-to-end encryption for securing payment data

OESIOK.COM
New Antivirus Market Data
Symantec holds about 16.67 percent of the North American AV market, according to OPSWAT data

THREAT POST
My Opera Found To Host Malware
The My Opera free Web hosting service is the latest prominent hosting service to be gamed by malware distributors

FBI: Houston Energy Companies Targeted By Hackers
KENS 5
| Expert says attackers are taking aim at U.S. economy

Botnet Operators Shift From China To Russia
V3.CO.UK
Government crackdown may be forcing spammers to new locations, M86 researchers say

Put Me In, Coach
BILLY RIOS' BLOG
Fantasy football league leads to discovery of some interesting exploits on the Web

MICROSOFT NEWS CENTER
Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming For Small Businesses
Lightweight antivirus and other products offered for free

SOFTPEDIA
New Trojan Steals Digital Certificates
Infostealer.Nimkey is distributed via tax-related spam

OFFICE OF INADEQUATE SECURITY
Victims Of ChoicePoint Data Breach To Receive Redress Checks
After 2006 breach, some 14,000 victims will get a check for $18

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
Seeing The Internet As An "Information Weapon"
Experts wonder why there is no arms control for cyber weapons

READ WRITE WEB
Identity Management And Networks: The Enterprise Considers The Social Way
Many enterprises using social network identities as a means of authenticating users

BILLY RIOS' BLOG
Put Me In, Coach
Fantasy football league leads to discovery of some interesting exploits on the Web

V3.CO.UK
Botnet Operators Shift From China To Russia
Government crackdown may be forcing spammers to new locations, M86 researchers say

KENS 5
FBI: Houston Energy Companies Targeted By Hackers
Expert says attackers are taking aim at U.S. economy

Melbourne Schoolboy Blamed For Twitter Meltdown
ABC NEWS
A 17-year-old Australian schoolboy says he inadvertently caused the attack on Twitter yesterday after tweeting "mouseover" JavaScript code

Alleged Ringleader Of ID Theft Operation Extradited To New York
SC MAGAZINE
Dmitry Naskovets, 26, who allegedly operated a website for identity thieves, was extradited from the Czech Republic on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft

Turkish Hacker Defaces Kiwi Parliament Website
THE NEW NEW INTERNET
"Iskorpitx" this weekend defaced New Zealand Parliament's official video website, replacing all content with an animated flag and the message "best regards to all world"

ABUSE.CH
New Dropper Uses DNS To Communicate
Trojan dropper spotted using DNS and HTTP in combination to communicate with the command-and-control server

THE REGISTER
Microsoft Warns Of In-The-Wild Attacks On Web App Flaw
Microsoft says it is seeing "limited attacks" exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Web development applications that opens password files and other sensitive data to interception and tampering

SC MAGAZINE
Alleged Ringleader Of ID Theft Operation Extradited To New York
Dmitry Naskovets, 26, who allegedly operated a website for identity thieves, was extradited from the Czech Republic on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft

NETWORK WORLD
The Missing Piece Of Cloud Security?
Recent announcements, however, from VMware, Citrix and Oracle show that enterprise cloud computing is gaining momentum

INFORMATION WEEK GLOBAL CIO BLOG
Larry Ellison Hammers Salesforce.com On Security
Larry Ellison cited Amazon.com and Salesforce.com as examples of different cloud approaches, criticizing the latter for "commingling" customers' data and offering a "very weak security model"