King of Spam pleads guilty; faces 26 years in prison   15 Mar 2008 08:51 GMT
The spammer who notoriously bragged that he'd never paid a dime despite multiple rulings against him will be paying society back in years of his life instead. Robert Soloway is facing both a jail sentence and quality time with electrodes strapped to his body.

Source: Computerworld

Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes   14 Mar 2008 13:00 GMT
One of the 12 patches Microsoft issued Tuesday causes the spreadsheet application to make mistakes in some calculations.

Source: Computerworld

Trend Micro falls victim to Web hack   14 Mar 2008 12:55 GMT
It's not much fun when one of your security vendors falls to a Web attack. Infoworld reports that TrendMicro was a victim of a recent Web attack that used legit sites to deliver malware. According to InfoWorld Trend Micro removed the infected pages from its Web site....
Source: ZDNet

How dangerous is the pacemaker hack?   14 Mar 2008 12:54 GMT
Not very. Despite the snarky headlines, you're not going to be able to create a zombie army with this hack. As our own Chris Soghoian notes, many newer pacemakers give off signals which can be read up to 5 meters away. That's a Bluetooth distance,...
Source: ZDNet

Arcot brings two-factor authentication to Google Apps   14 Mar 2008 11:06 GMT
A newly available add-on service for Google Apple Premiere Edition users layers another security measure on top of what's already there, in much the fashion banks have done.

Source: Computerworld

Got room in your heart for a hacker?   13 Mar 2008 20:53 GMT
I was looking over famed security researcher and cryptography expert Bruce Schneier's blog today and found an article on hacking medical devices.  I have to admit that I was surprised, but I shouldn't have been.  These days, if you can build it, we can break it seems to be the...
Source: ZDNet

Adobe plugs vulnerabilities for Form Designer, ColdFusion, Reader   13 Mar 2008 20:44 GMT
Adobe this week issued security bulletins and patches for products ranging from ColdFusion to Form Designer. In Adobe's security bulletin the company outlined the following in order of importance: CVE--2007-6253:  Adobe says "critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Form Designer 5.0 and Form Client...
Source: ZDNet

Personal information of Harvard grad students compromised   13 Mar 2008 19:17 GMT
Harvard's graduate school of arts and sciences said that roughly 10,000 individuals may have had their personal information compromised by a security breach. The intrusion was discovered in February, according to a Harvard statement released Wednesday. Of the 10,000 affected, 6,600 got a year's worth of free...
Source: ZDNet

IE 8: Threats will evolve to elude Microsoft's new security features   13 Mar 2008 15:02 GMT
As most of the tech world knows, IE 8 has landed with its first beta, but the security improvements may raise some other issues to ponder. Folks--especially security researchers--are kicking the tires on IE 8 (all resources) and finding a few problems that go along with Microsoft's...
Source: ZDNet

IDC: A Guide to Delivering Dynamic Protection in an Evolving Threat Environment   13 Mar 2008 13:00 GMT
(Source: SonicWALL) This Vendor Spotlight examines the evolution of information protection and control (IPC) solutions in their quest to discover, protect, and control information contained in data in motion, data at rest, and data in use to help organizations of all sizes and vertical industries. This also contains a helpful checklist for selecting a security vendor.

Source: Computerworld