Security Industry News
John Leyden
http://go.theregister.com( The Register - 5/14/2008 12:00:00 AM )
MySpace has won a $230 million anti-spam judgment against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines. US District Judge Audrey Collins made the order - reckoned to be the largest ever in an anti-spam case - after the duo failed to appear in court.
MARKET WIRE
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com( Cisco - 5/13/2008 12:00:00 AM )
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the leading intergovernmental organization dedicated to promoting humane and orderly policies for the movement of persons across borders, has completed an upgrade of its entire security system using the Cisco® (NasdaqGS:CSCO - News) Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5520.
PRNewswire
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com( McAfee, Inc. - 5/13/2008 12:00:00 AM )
McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE - News) today announced that it has joined the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, a community of more than 300 technology and service providers working together to accelerate the deployment of customer-centric solutions on HP BladeSystem architecture. McAfee's new Content Security Blade Server is fully integrated with HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades.
Robert McMillan
http://www.computerworld.com( IDG News Service - 5/13/2008 12:00:00 AM )
An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country.
Staff
http://news.ninemsn.com.au( nineMSN - 5/12/2008 12:00:00 AM )
A hacker broke into Chile's government sites mining data from six million people which he then posted on the Internet on two popular servers for several hours, the El Mercurio daily has reported.
RobertMcMillan
http://www.linuxworld.com.au( IDG News Service - 5/12/2008 12:00:00 AM )
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.
Staff
http://www.m2.com( Nordic Business Report - 5/12/2008 12:00:00 AM )
Swedish IT company Axis Communications AB (OMX Stockholm: AXIS) said on Monday (12 May) that it has entered into a cooperation agreement with Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corporation.
PIERRE THOMAS and JASON RYAN
http://abcnews.go.com( abcNEWS - 5/11/2008 12:00:00 AM )
The FBI is investigating whether counterfeit routers and computer hardware from China installed in U.S. government computer networks might provide a secret gateway for hackers to tap into secure government databases.
Bogdan Popa
http://news.softpedia.com( softpedia.com - 5/11/2008 12:00:00 AM )
Last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder officials said that three of their computers were hacked and information of about 9,000 students and 500 employees was put in danger.
Bogdan Popa
http://news.softpedia.com( softpedia.com - 5/11/2008 12:00:00 AM )
A group of eleven hackers were arrested by the German police as part of an investigation carried out by the local authorities over an Internet forum relying on hacking techniques.
Bandula Sirimanna
http://www.sundaytimes.lk( Financial Times - 5/10/2008 12:00:00 AM )
A rare computer virus case involving the Managing Director and an employee of Trans World Movers, a freight moving company, will procede for trial after a Colombo Magistrate upheld an objection by the complainant over the Attorney General intervening in the case.
Marius Oiaga
http://news.softpedia.com( softpedia.com - 5/10/2008 12:00:00 AM )
Windows XP SP3 was barely out the door, when Microsoft rushed to issue the first critical patch for the service pack.
Du Guodong
http://news.xinhuanet.com( chinaview.cn - 5/10/2008 12:00:00 AM )
The Mexican Congress website was out of service for hours on Friday after being attacked by hackers who opposed the nation's oil industry privatization.
John E. Dunn
http://www.computerworld.com.my( computerworld - 5/9/2008 12:00:00 AM )
It’s not just the US and UK who are crying foul over China's behavior in cyberspace - now the government of tiny Belgium has accused hackers from the country of targeting its systems.
Liam Tung
http://www.zdnet.com.au( ZDNet.com.au - 5/9/2008 12:00:00 AM )
Mozilla has stopped distributing a language pack for Firefox after discovering it had been infected by malicious code for over two months.
Liam Tung
http://www.zdnet.com.au( ZDNet.com.au - 5/9/2008 12:00:00 AM )
A US-based security consultancy plans to release software next month that it claims will help employers launch ethical phishing attacks against their own employees.
Thomas Claburn
http://www.informationweek.com( InformationWeek - 5/8/2008 12:00:00 AM )
Hackers now have their own social network. GnuCitizen, a computer security consultancy, has set up a social network for hackers called House of Hackers on Ning.com
PRNewswire
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com( NTT Communications Corporation - 5/8/2008 12:00:00 AM )
NTT Communications (NTT Com) today announced that its global data network services have won the Platinum Award for ranking highest in terms of overall customer satisfaction in the latest "Voice of the Customer: Global Data VPN" report issued on April 24, 2008 Telemark Services of the United Kingdom.
Ronnie Ng
http://www.zdnetindia.com( ZDNet Asia - 5/8/2008 12:00:00 AM )
A simple virus can be extremely costly to businesses. Once a virus penetrates security defenses, it can quickly rip through the network, destroy files, corrupt data, render applications useless and cause an expensive lull in productivity.