Spam: The digital coal in your stocking   21 Dec 2006 10:25 GMT
Just in time for the holidays -- the season of overflowing inboxes, frantic online shopping, short-staffed IT departments, and plenty of better things to do than mop up after the junk-email crowd -- spam levels are reaching their highest levels of the year.
Source: Computerworld

Microsoft shares draft of Vista security hooks   21 Dec 2006 00:15 GMT
Interfaces are meant to help security software makers create products that work with kernel protection features in Windows Vista.
Source: ZDNet

Confusion over Skype security threat clears up   20 Dec 2006 23:36 GMT
Researchers now characterize threat to Skype IM tool as a Trojan horse, not a worm.
Source: ZDNet

Mozilla issues security updates   20 Dec 2006 16:57 GMT
"Critical" updates cover flaws in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey that could allow for cross-site scripting and remote execution of code.
Source: ZDNet

U.K. ditches ID card mega-database   20 Dec 2006 15:24 GMT
Data on separate systems will be shared rather than consolidated. Biometrics system based on iris scanning shelved.
Source: ZDNet

Websense to buy PortAuthority   20 Dec 2006 14:00 GMT
The emerging data-centric content control space shuffled somewhat on Wednesday as WebSense announced plans to pay $90 million for PortAuthority Technologies, a maker of information-leak detection applicances.
Source: Computerworld

CyberDefenderFREE Fast and useful but still a work in progress   20 Dec 2006 14:00 GMT
CyberDefender's free desktop security suite has some unique and highly useful capabilities for protecting the desktop but it also exhibited some notable gaps in our testing. Still, its promise and price make it a package worth checking out.
Source: Computerworld

Top tips on destroying data on your hard drives   20 Dec 2006 14:00 GMT
These tips will help you render an old drive's files unreadable.
Source: Computerworld

Man indicted for planting 'logic bomb' in company's IT systems   20 Dec 2006 14:00 GMT
A 50-year-old New Jersey man was charged with planting malicious "logic bomb" code into the company systems where he worked that could have damaged 70 servers.
Source: Computerworld

U.S. official says no terror 'scores' for travelers   20 Dec 2006 14:00 GMT
A senior Bush administration official played down claims by rights activists that the federal government assigns terror risk scores to millions of people who enter or leave the U.S.
Source: Computerworld