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• China State-linked Microblog Service Hacked at Launch A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and went offline.
• Hackers Hit OpenX Ad Server in Adobe Attack Hackers are targeting an flaw in the OpenX ad server to place malicious code on Web sites.
• Inmate Gets 18 Months for Hacking Prison Computer A Massachusetts prison inmate has been sentenced to 18 months for hacking prison computers.
• Citigroup, Law Enforcement Refute Cyber Heist Report Citigroup and federal law enforcement refuted Tuesday that the bank's customers lost millions of dollars in an advanced cyber heist.
• Report: Russian Gang Linked to Big Citibank Hack The FBI is probing the theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by hackers linked to a Russian gang, The Wall Street Journal said.
• Microsoft, Intel, Google Legal News Prevails It was a week where competition regulators danced with IT industry behemoths: the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, while...
• Upgraded Dutch Payment Card Still Vulnerable to Relay Attack New security features being implemented into Dutch payment cards won't stop a kind of attack that fraudsters could use in the future.
• Hackers Take Twitter Offline Microblogging site Twitter went offline Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change the site's DNS records.
• Researcher Cures Poisoned BlackBerry With Kisses A security researcher in Asia has cured BlackBerry devices infected by spyware with Kisses.
• Heartland Pays Amex $3.6 Million Over 2008 Data Breach Heartland will pay $3.6 million to American Express to resolve issues relating to its 2008 hack.
• Privacy Groups Bring Facebook Complaints to FTC EPIC and other privacy and consumer groups have filed an FTC complaint against Facebook for its privacy changes.
• Cloud Security Alliance Issues New Guidelines The Cloud Security Alliance unveiled new guidelines for cloud computing security on Thursday.
• Chinese ISP Hosts 1 in 7 Conficker Infections Shadowserver released data showing some Chinese ISPs have the biggest problem with Conficker worm.
• China Jails Trojan Virus Authors in Cybercrime Crackdown A Chinese court gave prison terms to 11 members of a crime ring that wrote and distributed Trojan horse viruses to steal online game account passwords
• Five Things You Need to Know About Social Engineering Social engineering is growing up. Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. Convicted hacker Kevin...
• Integrated IT Overhaul Keeps Growing Company on the Move How a unified security and communications upgrade brought one fragmented company together.
• Nine iPhone GPS Navigation Apps Compared These apps come packed with maps. Which one should be your destination?
• Rogue Antivirus Lurks Behind Google Doodle Searches Many of the search results that come up when one clicks on yesterday's Google Doodle are malicious.
• McAfee Aims to Localize in China Sales Push McAfee will form a new Chinese subsidiary and expand its staff in the country as it looks for new inroads to the local security market.
• Adobe Offers Advice on Avoiding New Reader Attack Adobe has published a security advisory offering advice on avoiding a brand-new Reader 0day attack.
• Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit: Protecting Your PC Adobe has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Follow this advice to protect yourself from becoming a victim.
• Supreme Court to Rule on Employee Privacy The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving the expectation of privacy in the workplace. The decision could impact privacy and compliance efforts across the nation.
• 10 Predictions for 2010: Kaminsky and Weatherford Curious about what's going to happen to our critical IT infrastructure in 2010? Here, IT security luminaries Mark Weatherford, CISO for California State, and Dan...
• Spam-linked Chinese Domain Registrar Caught in Porn Cleanup A Chinese domain registrar long criticized for serving malicious domains promised stricter oversight after being censured in a government war on Internet porn.
• Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack in the Wild Adobe is warning of a zero-day attack on its Reader and Acrobat software.