Four plead guilty in auction software piracy scheme   26 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
Four men have pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit copies of highly specialized factory-management software on eBay.com, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Source: Computerworld

N.Y. teen hacks AOL, infects systems   26 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
A 17-year-old New Yorker hacked into AOL systems and infected the company's servers with a Trojan program, AOL and authorities allege.
Source: Computerworld

UK government apologizes for breaching doctors' personal info   26 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
A troubled online application system for specialist medical training posts in the UK experienced a meltdown Wednesday, and for hours exposed personal information on hundreds of physicians. Revealed data included home addresses, phone numers, and information on applicants' sexual orientations.
Source: Computerworld

Web 2.0 apps riddled with holes, warns SPI   26 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
Security testing software that doesn't target dynamic applications using Flash, AJAX, and the like don't adequately address the "fundamentally changed" nature of the modern Net, says a company that's launching a tool can looks at exactly those applications.
Source: Computerworld

Hack challenge QuickTime bug <i>not</i> on the loose   26 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
A QuickTime exploit publiized at last week's CanSecWest event was not filched by unknown person's from a wireless network, according to hack contest organizer Dragos Ruiu.
Source: Computerworld

Disgruntled employees may seek IT revenge   26 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
Even the best security software doesn't do a good job of detecting employees who may have a grudge against their company.
Source: Computerworld

Entrepreneurial hackers buy sponsored links on Google   26 Apr 2007 08:19 GMT
A scheme involving sponsored Google AdWords links, a malicious intermediary, and malware that steals usernames and passwords for banking sites has been brought to light by a security company.
Source: Computerworld

Yahoo China to appeal music piracy ruling   25 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
Disagreeing with the premise of a ruling handed down by a Beijing court, Yahoo China promised to appeal a ruling that found it guilty of abetting music piracy.
Source: Computerworld

Mozilla extends Firefox 1.5 support to mid-May   25 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
Mozilla Corp. will support version 1.5.0.x of its Firefox browser into mid-May, when it plans to roll out a patch for the browser as well as an auto upgrade feature that will update users to version 2.0
Source: Computerworld

Security reporter suspects phishing attack; turns out it's a lot of Skype   25 Apr 2007 13:00 GMT
Last Friday, Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan checked his bank account online and noticed two recent ATM transactions in the U.K. One problem: he hadn't been to the U.K. Concerned that he'd been the victim of a phishing scam, he started searching for an answer.
Source: Computerworld