PC World - Malicious software makers are using social networks, video sites, and blogs to peddle their wares to other online criminals. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Attacking the European Union's Internet backbone is now the preserve of organized crime, not young hackers out to prove a point. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The suit accuses the defendants of sending spam e-mails trying to trick people into divulging personal information by claiming they had won a prize from Yahoo. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - While rootkits for common operating systems, like Windows, are well known, they haven't been a security issue for Cisco's IOS until now. -- read full article
PC World - Europe's Internet security agency, ENISA, wants new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and... -- read full article
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
