Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking   01 Jun 2007 13:00 GMT
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live OneCare climbed from March's dead last to 14th place in a test of 17 antivirus programs, an Austrian security researcher reported.

Source: Computerworld

Expert: Russian government ruled out in Estonia DDoS attacks   01 Jun 2007 13:00 GMT
A string of crippling denial-of-service attacks against Estonia doesn't appear to be a coordinated effort by one entity within Russia, said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks Inc.

Source: Computerworld

One year later: Five lessons learned from the VA data breach   01 Jun 2007 13:00 GMT
A year after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed a huge data breach involving the theft of personal information on 26.5 million vets and active-duty military personnel, federal agencies have moved to prevent such a breach from happening again. Here are five steps taken along the way.

Source: Computerworld

States settle with ChoicePoint over 2004 breach   01 Jun 2007 13:00 GMT
group of US states settles data breach complaints with ChoicePoint

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ChoicePoint settles data breach dispute with 44 states   01 Jun 2007 12:19 GMT
Company, which maintains profiles of U.S. consumers, agrees to adopt stronger security measures and pay $500,000 to states.
Source: ZDNet

Google Desktop vulnerable to new attack   01 Jun 2007 10:54 GMT
Just one day after Google's Firefox toolbar was revealed to have vulnerabilities that could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in Google Desktop.
Source: Computerworld

Spammers establishing use of artificial intelligence   01 Jun 2007 10:54 GMT
Just when experts thought the spam tide was receding, it did what tides will do. The problem's worse than ever, and image-based attacks using artificial intelligence are to blame.
Source: Computerworld

Microsoft adds copyrighted works to book search engine   01 Jun 2007 09:52 GMT
Microsoft's books search engine has expanded to include some copyrighted works in its index. Results containig copyrighted material were first made available Thursday evening.
Source: Computerworld