EBay officially kills controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia   10 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
Although eBay has withdrawn its controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia, it still will require sellers to offer the payment service as an option for buyers.

Source: Computerworld

Microsoft fixes month-old WSUS patch snafu   10 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
Microsoft has released a fix for a flaw that for several weeks had blocked users from accessing security patches through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

Source: Computerworld

No servers, no stories at Financial Times   10 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
The newspaper's third-party hosting center was broken into, leaving the publisher temporarily unable to post new stories or update data on its site.

Source: Computerworld

Senators question NebuAd, targeted ad privacy   10 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
Senators question NebuAd on its information collection practices at a hearing in which the company's CEO said it does not collect personally identifiable information or keep the information it collects for an extended time.

Source: Computerworld

Opinion: VMware's Hardening Guideline falls far short of secure   10 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
The VI3 Hardening Guideline, which is the place most virtual server managers would start their search to find security information, falls seriously short of the goal of helping to harden an entire virtual infrastructure or even a single ESX system, one virtualization expert says.

Source: Computerworld

News to know: Midori; Yahoo; iPhone; VMware   10 Jul 2008 09:08 GMT
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009 Microsoft to push XP SP3 via Auto Update on July 10 Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August...
Source: ZDNet

Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails   09 Jul 2008 22:19 GMT
Brad Taylor, Google's Gmail Spam Czar, has just posted details on the ongoing cooperation with PayPal and Ebay, two of the most targeted brands in phishing emails, the effect of which is rejecting compared to flagging as spam each and every email pretending to be coming from paypal.com and ebay.com...
Source: ZDNet

What happens when you patch the Internet?   09 Jul 2008 19:12 GMT
Well, inevitably you have some issues, don't you?  Yesterday's patch Tuesday effectively patched DNS servers and clients across nearly all of the Internet, and there's been at least one hiccup reported. From the bugtraq list: The latest auto update patch KB951748 Windows all versions cuts connectivity...
Source: ZDNet

The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system   09 Jul 2008 15:43 GMT
* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Max Weinstein It's no secret that Web sites have become a medium of choice for delivering malware and soliciting personal information for criminal use. One increasingly popular approach to addressing this problem is warning...
Source: ZDNet

Attacking phishing at the source   09 Jul 2008 15:08 GMT
Good news on the phishing front. Google reports that they are now authenticating all e-mail that purports to come from eBay and PayPal. Using e-mail authentication standards including DomainKeys and Domain Keys identified Mail, and working with PayPal and eBay, Google's Gmail now verifies every e-mail...
Source: ZDNet