Getting in Compliance With Government Data Regulations By Leveraging Online Security Technology   07 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
(Source: VeriSign) Get a broad understanding of important regulations and how you can make sure your site is in adherence.

Source: Computerworld

Privacy groups to Google: What took you so long?   07 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
Google has added a link to its privacy policy on its home page, but privacy groups say the company was legally obligated to do so four years ago.

Source: Computerworld

ICANN blames June site hijack on registrar   07 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
ICANN, the international organization that oversees the Web's top-level DNS said that a hijacking last month of several of its domains was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs.

Source: Computerworld

News to know: Open Office; Google; Security metrics; IT jobs   07 Jul 2008 09:10 GMT
Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: What could Open Office do with a business model? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. Gallery right Paul Murphy: Internet abuse and Cloud Computing An IT productivity horror story ...
Source: ZDNet

French ruling on counterfeit goods could have far-reaching effects for eBay   07 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT
If it is upheld, a French court ruling that fined eBay $61 million for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods could have a significant effect on how the company runs its business in the future, legal analysts said.

Source: Computerworld

Google trying to take privacy seriously   05 Jul 2008 23:47 GMT
This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There's nothing Google could have done about it, but it's...
Source: ZDNet

Storm botnet stages Fourth of July attacks   05 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT
Hackers tried to entice users into downloading the Storm bot Trojan on July 4 with a flood of Fourth of July spam containing links to malicious sites, several security companies reported.

Source: Computerworld

Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign   04 Jul 2008 15:44 GMT
A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...
Source: ZDNet

Lithuania: Attacks focused on hosting company   04 Jul 2008 13:00 GMT

A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a ...

Source: Computerworld

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?   03 Jul 2008 21:11 GMT
The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
Source: ZDNet