Security Report Claims Net Holes Hidden

A new Internet security analysis finds that computer vulnerabilities decreased last year for perhaps the first time, though the researchers behind the report caution that there has been no improvement in Web safety.

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The French hacker who broke into Twitter's Google Apps and stole more than 300 private company documents has revealed in detail how he did it. See if you might be vulnerable, too.

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Funny and relevant article about questions businesses should ask before switching to the cloud.

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I THOUGHT it was a little strange when I received separate e-mail messages from two people I knew only slightly asking me to click and see their photos on a social networking site called Tagged. I ignored them at first, but then thought maybe I should check it out.

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One of Fidel Castro's sons carried on an eight-month flirtation over the Internet with a person he believed was a Colombian woman. Surprise! The woman was actually a Miami man.

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"Sexting" - the electronic exchange of suggestive photos - is landing some teens in deep legal trouble due to child pornography laws. State legislators in Vermont are moving to carve out an exemption to the law so that teens won't be prosecuted.

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"Sexting" - the electronic exchange of suggestive photos - is landing some teens in deep legal trouble due to child pornography laws. But some experts argue the law is behind the times: "Kids will be kids, but that doesn't make them criminals," said one.

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Tina Meier, whose daughter Megan committed suicide after being victimized in a MySpace hoax, said that a neighbor accused of being behind the online taunts deserves the maximum sentence allowable by law.

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The perils of teens electronically exchanging suggestive messages were driven home by Cynthia Logan, whose daughter Jesse took her own life at 18 after being taunted over a photo meant only for her boyfriend. "She was being tortured," said the teen's heartbroken mom.

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The perils of teens electronically exchanging suggestive messages were driven home by Cynthia Logan, whose daughter Jesse took her own life at 18 after being taunted over a photo meant only for her boyfriend. "She was being tortured," said the teen's heartbroken mom.

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An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopter...

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TechForensics writes "A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version."

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Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a few hours. ...

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What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a "gated community" where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety.

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A reward of $250,000 (£172,000) has been offered by Microsoft to find who is behind the Downadup/Conficker virus. Since it started circulating in October 2008 the Conficker worm has managed to infect millions of computers worldwide.

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Facebook, MySpace and Bebo users are being warned about the resurgence of a virus-like worm that will try to infect their PCs when they follow a comment posted on their profile.

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[Excerpt:] - Online payment service CheckFree lost control of at least two of its domains on Tuesday in an attack that sent customers to servers run by a notorious crime gang believed to be based in Eastern Europe.

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To recap, Change.gov and BarackObama.com were both found exposing non-encrypted pages that Obama officials use to make post press releases and carry out other administrative tasks.

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Is the Rudd government about to erect a Great Firewall of Australia - introducing a form of internet censorship that will infringe upon the freedom of computer users to browse the worldwide web?

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Dan Kaminsky discovered a fundamental problem at the heart of the Internet and got people to care in time. We were lucky this time.

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning saying phishing gangs were using the turmoil to extract valuable information from consumers.

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The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.

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More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.

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Robbers of old hit up banks because, obviously, that's where the money was. Today's cyberthieves are no different, so financial institutions' Web sites have high security requirements.

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Kip Mazuy writes meditation music from his Auckland home. It is not a big earner, but he has managed to find his niche in the world. But it is a niche that is under threat from online Russian pirates.

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Had someone with ill intent been as smart or as lucky as security engineer Dan Kaminsky, the entire Internet could have been rendered mostly inoperative. The extent of just how big a fix he implemented, is only now being realized.

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