Security

Groups call for competitive spectrum auction

A consortium of businesses, consumer advocates, and think tanks want the upcoming auction of 700MHz spectrum to include open access requirements

Russian gov’t not behind Estonia DDOS attacks

Analysis throws doubt on whether a single agency alone was involved

Survey says: IT pros trespass on users

Google Desktop vulnerable to new attack

Flaw is similar to one discovered in Google's Firefox toolbar and could be used to launch software installed on the victim's computer

Ever-evolving malware is getting nastier

New trends toward Web-site based malware require alert, responsive monitoring and extra education

Spammers’ use of AI only just begun

Security industry experts: Image spam tip of iceberg; tech, enterprise must target roots of problem, rather than individual campaigns, to drive back new forms

E-mail scammers hiding malware in fake IRS notices

Two current Trojan horse schemes use e-mails claiming the recipient is under IRS investigation

States settle with ChoicePoint over 2004 breach

Company hopes that new credentialing methods will better safeguard data in the future

Brocade pays $7M to settle with SEC

Company neither admits to nor denies charges, expects no further action from Department of Justice

Mozilla patches six Firefox bugs

One of the patches is stamped 'critical' and fixes memory corruption and JavaScript bugs; this group of patches will be the last for Firefox 1.5