AP - Yahoo Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of defendants it alleges tricked consumers into thinking they won a lottery or prize offered by the Internet company. -- read full article
PC World - Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the 'Yahoo Lottery Spammers' for running an... -- read full article
NewsFactor - The European Union has a long way to go in safeguarding Internet businesses, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency. ENISA cited the possibility of a "digital 9/11." -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - In order for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities, he or she would have to convince an iCal user to open an .ics file sent via e-mail or hosted on a Web server. -- read full article
AP - Officials from around the world agree they must cooperate better to fight the threat of cyberterrorism at facilities such as nuclear power plants. -- read full article
AP - A student who allegedly spread a computer virus was convicted Friday of copyright infringement in a case that has highlighted the lack of laws in Japan to police cyberspace. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Vista let 639 threats per thousand computers through, compared with 586 for Windows 2000, 478 for Windows 2003, and 1,021 for Windows XP, security vendor PC Tools said. -- read full article
PC World - Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a... -- read full article
Reuters - Three people have been charged with
stealing credit and debit card numbers from customers at U.S.
restaurant chain Dave & Buster's Inc by hacking into cash
register terminals, the Department of Justice said on Monday. -- read full article
AP - A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report debunks PC Tools' claims that the Windows Vista operating system is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Researchers warn the buffer-overflow bug affecting the Jet Database Engine is especially critical to fix since there is evidence of hackers already exploiting the vulnerability. -- read full article
AP - A notorious "Spam King" and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ever.
