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• 'Godfather of Spam' Sentenced to Four Years in Prison One of the most notorious U.S.-based spammers was sentenced to more than four years on Monday for a stock spam manipulation scheme.
• Facebook Worm Spreads With a Lurid Lure Facebook was hit with a worm that infected users' profiles and then redirected them to pornography sites.
• Hacks of Chinese Temple Were Online Kung Fu, Abbot Says The Web site of China's Shaolin Temple, a famous kung fu training ground, has been hacked multiple times by attackers critical of its commercial activities.
• Microsoft Issues Security Advisory on IE Vulnerability Microsoft has issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer.
• Advanced Antivirus Hackers have shown that they can plant their malware even on mainstream sites--proving that you need antivirus protection now more than ever. We lab-tested eleven top security programs to find the best guardians for your PC.
• How To De-Worm Your iPhone iPhone behaving badly? Here's how to find out if you've caught a worm--and how to get rid of it.
• Pros and Cons of Windows 7 Security Windows 7 is the most secure version to date of Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system, but its not perfect. Here are some of the ups and downs of Windows 7 security.
• Critical Zero-Day Flaw Opens Holes in IE 6 and 7 A newly discovered security hole in IE 6 and 7 allows for attacks against either browser.
• Third iPhone Worm Targets Jailbroken iPhones Another week, another worm hitting jailbroken iPhones.
• Hacked Climate Change E-mails Highlight Security Concerns In the heat of the climate change debate sparked by hacked e-mail messages, there has been little discussion of how the e-mails were leaked. In a connected world, security and privacy are both more important, and harder to come by.
• Can Droid Phones Take Care of Business? Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris aren't strong on Exchange mail support, security, and configurability -- all needed for business use.
• New Attack Fells Internet Explorer Symantec says that an unpatched flaw affecting IE 7 and IE 6 has been made public.
• Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
• Global Warming Research Exposed After Hack A hacker has posted e-mail and documents belonging to a noted climate change researcher.
• Chrome Shines, Gore Opines, Staffs Decline Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions...
• Two Approaches to NFC Battle for French Hearts and Mobiles French network operators are counting on their SIM cards to put NFC in phones, while Twinlinx offers a self-adhesive Bluetooth device with similar functions.
• Will Secret Copyright Treaty Restrict Digital Rights? Most Americans expect that their laws are only passed after some period of public debate between Republicans and Democrats or their news-channel proxies...
• EU Security Agency Highlights Cloud Computing Risks Problems related to loss of control, problems with compliance and changes in jurisdiction stand out in a report on cloud risk assessment.
• Banks on Watch After Suspected Card Breach An apparent data breach in Spain has caused Visa and MasterCard to warn banks of possible fraudulent credit card transactions.
• Security Pro Says New SSL Attack Can Hit Many Sites A security researcher has developed code that could be used to attack a large number of sites vulnerable to a new bug in the SSL protocol.
• Three Indicted for Comcast Hack Last Year Three men were indicted for their roles in redirecting the Comcast.net Web site last year.
• Hack Brings 10.6.2 Back to Atom Processors Remember last week, when the net was abuzz with the news that the Mac OS X 10.6.2 update broke notebooks with Atom processors? Well, given the first syllable of...
• Cyberattacks on U.S. Military Jump Sharply in 2009 Cyberattacks on the U.S. military are on track to jump 60 percent in 2009, a congressional report said Thursday.
• Former DHS Cybersecurity Chief Points Finger at Congress Congress is partly to blame for cybersecurity failures in the U.S. government, a former DHS official says.
• Security Vendor Fortinet Sparkles in IPO Fortinet's stock jumped 33 percent as it offered its IPO Wednesday.