Google Says Infected Spam Is Getting Worse The company's Postini corporate e-mail security service reported that the volume of e-mail virus attacks peaked at almost 10 million on a single day. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek August 12, 2008 04:00 PM On its enterprise blog on Tuesday, Google plans to report that it saw more infectious spam messages in July than any month so far this year. According to ...<< MORE >>

  Alert: Major VMWare Flaw Revealed, Cutting Off Customers' Virtual Machines Posted by Keith Ferrell Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008, 04:54 PM ET A flaw in the latest VMWare hypervisor update resulted in product licenses being declared invalid at midnight, with customers being rendered unable to run virtual machines (and as a result some applications) in their data centers. The license-recognition flaw was announced earlier today and a permanent patch is hoped for by tomorrow. Alert: Major VMWare Flaw Revealed, Cutting Off Customers' Virtual Machines | bMighty.com: Blogs For ...<< MORE >>

  August 6, 2008 (Computerworld) The criminal network identified in federal indictments this week as having stolen tens of millions of credit card numbers used people with skills in technology, finance and black markets — some whom were notably polite, attentive and productive. In one chain of ICQ messages excerpted by federal authorities in the indictment, there is back-and-forth about the software used to get credit card data from the Dave & Buster's Inc. restaurant chain, which the U.S. Department of Justice says was one of nine retailers hit. The hackers gave the ...<< MORE >>

  Computer & Internet Security News 06 August 2008 TJX hackers charged after massive ID theft By Grant Gross, IDG News Service Eleven people have been charged or indicted in a massive identity theft and computer fraud scheme involving some of the largest data breaches in recent US history, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. Techworld.com - TJX hackers charged after massive ID theft ...<< MORE >>

  The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will continue to allow its agents to seize notebook computers and retain the devices indefinitely. The DHS said in a report (PDF) that it will allow agents of the US Customs and Border Patrols (CBP) to seize electronic devices and copy or obtain them as part of a normal search procedure. The rule would allow agents to examine notebooks without any suspicion of a crime and copy the hard drive. Feds claim right to laptops - vnunet.com ...<< MORE >>

  MIT Researchers Make Major Solar Power Breakthrough The process involves splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen cheaply and efficiently at room temperature. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek August 1, 2008 03:40 PM Storing solar energy in batteries remains costly and inefficient. But that may not be true for much longer. MIT researchers have discovered a way to store solar energy that could make solar power ...<< MORE >>

  Dell Customers Angry With Fix For Faulty Notebooks The computer maker is hoping a BIOS update will prevent related problems, such as multiple images, random characters on the screen, lines on the screen, and no video. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek July 29, 2008 03:50 PM Dell (Dell) is under fire by customers unhappy with its fix for notebooks with video display problems related to a faulty Nvidia graphics ...<< MORE >>

  Most Malicious Code Launched From Legitimate Web Sites The proliferation of user-generated content on popular Web 2.0 sites has opened the door for hackers to plant malware, says Websense report. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek July 29, 2008 04:45 PM Seventy-five percent of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate Web sites that have been hacked, according to a new security report issued by Websense that covers the first two quarters of 2008. ...<< MORE >>

  Red Alert! DNS Flaw Revealed Security researchers warn users to patch immediately, as technical details to exploit a widespread DNS vulnerability were disclosed online. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek July 23, 2008 03:00 PM "Patch. Today. Now. Yes, stay late." That's the word from security researcher Dan Kaminsky, who recently presided over an unprecedented effort to coordinate a fix for a DNS vulnerability across more than 80 software and ...<< MORE >>

  Enterprise Security Technology More than half of network vulnerabilities are attributable to weak operational security processes Networks riddled with vulnerabilities Defences not changing with the times, say experts Written by Clement James vnunet.com, 24 Jul 2008 Richard Hollis Orthus Security experts have warned that there is at least one vulnerability in the network layer ...<< MORE >>