PC Magazine - An alarming glitch that plagued Google's search engine Saturday morning was blamed on human error, Google said in a blog post. -- read full article
AP - A fired Fannie Mae contract worker pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal charge he planted a virus designed to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers nationwide. -- read full article
Reuters - A 35-year-old computer programer pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he planted a computer virus designed to destroy all the data on 4,000 Fannie Mae computer servers the day he was fired from the company. -- read full article
AP - A fired Fannie Mae contract worker pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he planted a virus designed to destroy all the data on the mortgage giant's 4,000 computer servers nationwide, according to federal prosecutors. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Over 90 percent of spam sent to corporations during 2008 was either spam or malware, security firm Panda Security reported Wednesday, basing its research on 430 million emails it scanned during 2008. -- read full article
Reuters - Businesses risk losing over $1 trillion from loss or theft of data and other cybercrime, according to a study released on Thursday by security technology firm McAfee Inc. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Symantec Corp, the largest maker of computer security and data backup software, issued quarterly results that beat forecasts, sending its shares up 6 percent. -- read full article
CNET - Data theft and breaches from cybercrime may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing the damage last year, according to a new study from McAfee. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Anti-malware company AVG has released research that indicates the number and volatility of web sites serving malicious code is increasing dramatically. -- read full article
PC World - When a colleague sent me a forwarded e-mail that purported to be from Kanye West, I assumed (as did my colleague) that it was a spoofed message using social engineering to trick people into double-clicking the attachment and installing malware. -- read full article
NewsFactor - The e-mail-using world rejoiced in November when the McColo network was busted and spam levels dropped 70 percent. But spam levels are now back up 150 percent, according to Postini Message Security. -- read full article
PC World - The overseer of the Internet's addressing system is soliciting ideas for how to fix a problem that is enabling spammers and fraudulent Web sites to flourish. -- read full article
PC World - Anti-virus firm AVG Technologies says an alarming rise in the number of virus-laden sites that are here today and gone tomorrow is causing security experts to re-think traditional virus protection strategies. -- read full article
