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• Juniper Patches Router-crashing Bug Juniper has patched a serious bug that could be exploited to crash its routers.
• Mac Security Reality Check: Mobile Tech Portable technology--laptops and iPhones particularly--come with their own special security risks. They can be lost, for starters. And iPhones can be made...
• Carry Cash as Well as a Card, Says German Bank Association An end-of-the-decade programming glitch is causing problems for holders of millions of German credit and ATM cards.
• FBI Investigating Online School District Theft A New York school district has reverted to using paper checks after cybercriminals tried to steal $3.8 million from its online accounts just before Christmas.
• Adobe Testing New Automatic Updater Next week, Adobe Systems will begin testing new automatic software designed to make it easier for Reader and Acrobat users to keep their products up-to-date.
• Mac Security Reality Check: User Error Some security problems are due to user error (or user laziness). It's not that hard to practice good system security on your Mac. But a surprising number of...
• CyberSitter Files Lawsuit Against China Over Green Dam CyberSitter alleges that China's Green Dam software infringes its copyrights.
• Symantec Product Hits End-of-decade Snafu Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date.
• Mac Security Reality-check: Scams In the endless debates about Mac security--is the Mac platform inherently safer than Windows? what security measures should Mac users take?--one point is often...
• Is Cyber Crime a Threat to Your Business? More and more traditional crimes are committed through virtual means. So what are the solutions?
• IT Experts: Our Top Tech Resolutions for 2009 These IT experts have nine goals for you and the entire technology industry.
• Group: Online Ad Networks Mostly Comply With Privacy Rules NAI's member advertising networks are generally complying with privacy guidelines, the group says.
• Adobe to be Prime Target for Malware in 2010 McAfee released its "2010 Threat Predictions" report, which predicts that Adobe will surpass Microsoft as the target of choice for malware attacks in 2010.
• Top 10 Security Nightmares of the Decade Remember the good old days when you--and your PC--didn't know what botnets, phishing, and malware were? Here's what we learned over the past ten years.
• Should Users Worry About New Cellular Hack? If you are doing something highly sensitive--or illegal--you may have reason to worry. Most business users still receive "good enough" protection for their calls.
• Adobe Will Be Top Target for Hackers in 2010, Report Says Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, a security vendor predicted this week.
• Hackers Show It's Easy to Snoop on a GSM Call Hackers say they've shown how to eavesdrop on encrypted GSM phone conversations.
• DDoS Attack on DNS Hits Amazon and Others Briefly A distributed denial-of-service attack affected Northern California Internet users Wednesday.
• 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.