China charges four in Panda worm outbreak   22 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Four men have been charged in a Chinese court for creating and selling the worm that went by names including "Fujacks" and "Panda Burning Joss Sticks."

Source: Computerworld

Oops! Calif. state pension fund admits breach of retiree data   22 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said it accidentally included the Social Security numbers of some its members in a recent mailing and is now apologizing for the breach.

Source: Computerworld

Turkish police make arrest in TJX data-breach case   22 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
A Ukrainian man dancing at a Turkish nightclub has been arrested for attempting to resell data stolen in the course of the notorious TJX breach late last year.

Source: Computerworld

Phishers scramble to cash in on Wells Fargo computer crash   22 Aug 2007 10:36 GMT
Perhaps inevitably, the outage that kneecapped Wells Fargo over the weekend and into the first part of this week has attracted the attention of the criminal class. Forums and other channels frequented by online nogoodniks are buzzing with ideas for taking advantage of the problem.

Source: Computerworld

Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?   21 Aug 2007 20:21 GMT
I was just going through the slides from Joanna Rutkowska's Black Hat talk (127-page .ppt file) and discovered that there's another unpatched driver flaw that exposes Windows Vista to kernel tampering.This flaw, in NVIDIA nTune, is similar to the recent ATI Technologies driver issue that provides a foolproof way to...
Source: ZDNet

SFO's security strategy   21 Aug 2007 19:16 GMT
San Francisco International Airport CIO, John Payne explains his security role at SFO airport and how the airport responds to hacker attacks and terrorist threats. by Andrew Mager
Source: ZDNet

Worried companies block Facebook   21 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Top concerns are employees wasting time and sharing too much information, which might lead to targeted phishing attacks.

Source: Computerworld

Gunplay blamed for Internet slowdown   21 Aug 2007 11:43 GMT
Parts of the U.S. experienced network disruptions Monday after a large span of cable was apparently sabotaged by gunfire.

Source: Computerworld

Security expert: Skype's explanation for outage is "line of bull"- do you agree?   21 Aug 2007 08:24 GMT
Some security experts are not entirely buying into Skype's explanations of what caused the nearly two-day sign-in outage.Writing on the SANS Internet Storm Center site, John Bambanek initially commented in part:Skype is apparently fully functional and has released an explanation of the problem that attributes the failure to Patch Tuesday. ...
Source: ZDNet

Visa Warns Merchants of Deadline for PCI Compliance   20 Aug 2007 04:33 GMT
Visa is again warning large merchants who accept credit cards that they face higher transaction fees beginning Oct. 1 unless that fully comply with the PCI data security standard.

Source: Computerworld