China quake fake in police custody   17 Jun 2008 08:29 GMT
A 19-year-old computer intruder who broke into a provincial seismological bureau's Web site to place a false earthquake warning could have caused widespread panic in the rattled Sichuan region.

Source: Computerworld

MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement   17 Jun 2008 02:18 GMT
MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its CEO Scott Richter. The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines. In its latest victory,...
Source: ZDNet

Delta Airlines pioneers biometric aiport security screening   16 Jun 2008 16:40 GMT
As predicted in my previous post about Continental Airlines' actively obstructive behavior in order to prevent access to CLEAR lanes in its major airport hubs, a major competing airline, Delta Airlines threw down the gauntlet this morning as the first major domestic US air carrier to...
Source: ZDNet

Federal judge lands in hot water over explicit images on Web site   16 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
The chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has recused himself from an obscenity trial he was overseeing after the Los Angeles Times reported that it found sexual photos and videos on his personal Web site.

Source: Computerworld

Researchers urge ransomware victims to try file-recovery app   16 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab is telling ransomeware victims of Gpcode.ak how to recover data thought lost to the extortionists.

Source: Computerworld

How to recover GPcode encrypted files?   16 Jun 2008 12:31 GMT
Got backups? In response to the security community's comments on the futile attempt to directly attack the 1024 bit RSA keys using distributed computing, Kaspersky Labs are now reasonably recommending that affected end users lacking backups of their encrypted data, take advantage of data recovery tools : Currently, it's...
Source: ZDNet

Discovering Tricks of E-discovery   16 Jun 2008 04:46 GMT
Federal rules governing retention of electronic documents pull info security into the legal domain.

Source: Computerworld

Cutting Compliance Costs   16 Jun 2008 04:46 GMT
Mark Hall hears a claim that management software is bringing down the cost of compliance.

Source: Computerworld

Obama Campaign Seeks Web-Site Security Help   16 Jun 2008 04:46 GMT
Barack Obama's presidential campaign is seeking a security expert to help lock down its Web site, which was hacked two months ago by a Hillary Clinton supporter taking advantage of a programming error.

Source: Computerworld

iPhone? Why Not?   16 Jun 2008 04:46 GMT
IT almost always answers "no" to users' requests to support new gadgets. Frank Hayes wonders if things will be any different with the iPhone.

Source: Computerworld