AP - Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A group in Brazil has unlocked the phone to run on other carriers' networks, and a hacker team has enabled independent apps to run on Apple's latest handset. -- read full article
CNET - Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a "shadow economy" that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan. -- read full article
AP - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company's complaints may have as much to do with privacy and competition as they do with its own strategic interests in Yahoo's search business. -- read full article
Reuters - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30
months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more
than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that
foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system. -- read full article
PC World - The chain-of-command of a cybercrime gang is not unlike the Mafia, an evolution that shows how online crime is becoming a... -- read full article
PC World - Symantec has built more than 300 speed and performance enhancements into its forthcoming security products, now in public beta. -- read full article
AFP - A New Zealand teenager who confessed to a central role in a global cyber-crime ring which caused millions of dollars in losses walked free from court Tuesday with police wanting to secure his skills.
Reuters - Prices charged by cybercriminals selling
hacked bank and credit card details have fallen sharply as the
volume of data on offer has soared, forcing them to look
elsewhere to boost profit margins, a new report says. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The fix applies to the ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, Pro, Antivirus, Anti-Spyware and Basic Firewall editions of the product. -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - Hackers always are on the lookout for the most vulnerable spot on your personal computers. These days, that weakest link might be your flash thumb drive. -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress should pass basic privacy legislation to protect information about consumers, such as the data being gathered about people's Web surfing habits in order to pinpoint Internet advertising. -- read full article
