Security

Groups ask court to review laptop searches

EFF and ACTE file brief asking court to rehear and reverse decision that allows border agents to routinely search files on laptops and mobile devices

U.S. hacker gets 41 months for running rogue botnet

Hacker set up a botnet within Newell Rubbermaid's corporate network to install advertising software on PCs located throughout Europe without permission

Spam-free blog search goes public

Swedish startup Twingly opens up beta testing of its blog search engine, which delivers spam-free search results

G8 nations talk ID crime at annual summit

Ministers from the Group of Eight nations hear that some estimates put the cost of ID crime in the U.S. at $50 billion last year and at $100 billion in Europe

Experts: Spyware legislation needs more work

Senate bill aimed at limiting spyware seemingly allows broadband providers and computer software and hardware vendors to scan users' computers without authorization

Obama campaign hopes for better Web security

Barack Obama's presidential campaign is looking for a network security expert to help lock down their Web site after it was hacked

U.S. Congressmen accuse China of hacking their computers

Congressmen's hacked computers contained possibly compromising information on Chinese dissidents

NetPro upgrades management tools

At TechEd, the company announced upgrades to AccessManager, ChangeAuditor, and LogADmin

FTC: Yes, you can still spam

Most data breaches discovered too late, study says

A recent study found that 75 percent of network breaches lead to compromised data in a few days, but they are not discovered until well after the fact