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• 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.
• The Five Essential Security Patches of 2009 If you install just five updates this year, these are the ones you need, security experts say.
• 2009: Another Bad Year for Data Security Analysis: Despite some improvements in patching and mail security, we've made very little progress against stopping cybercriminals
• Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet Chalk up one for the defenders. Here’s how a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet.
• Hot Security Predictions for 2010 I'm looking forward to 2010, while trying to erase the memory of 2009. Here are my security predictions for the new year.
• 2009's Top 5 Data Disasters From Internet leaks to lost hard drives, this year's security snafus are ordinary but still draw scrutiny of policies.
• 13 Microsoft Milestones in 2009 A countdown of 13 of Microsoft's most important products of the past year.
• Why Can't the Law Get the Crooks? Victor Rodriguez wants to know why law enforcement agencies can’t stop the criminals infecting our PCs
• Smartphone Attacks, Cloud Breaches Top 2010 Security Concerns There has never been a year in which security threats diminished, so expect more hacks, exploits, and scams in 2010, researchers warn.
• As DDoS Attacks Go, This One's a Dud Key Internet retailers were knocked offline briefly by a would-be Scrooge -- but it couldn't stop the shopping.
• Hacker: I Broke Kindle's DRM Hacker claims he can break through copyright protection on e-books formatted for the Amazone Kindle.
• What a Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech A year-by-year look back at the biggest blunders and goofiest stories of 2000 through 2009.
• Cyber Czar Choice: Smartphones, Social Networks Are Worries In choosing Howard Schmidt as cyber czar President Obama has gotten someone who has held a similar job in a previous administration and has varied experience.
• Privacy Guide for Kindle, Other E-Book Readers The Electronic Frontier Foundation put together a guide to the privacy policies and practices of Google Books, Amazon's Kindle, and other readers.
• Facebook Trojan: Brazen, but (Luckily) Benign Third-party application called "Phutos" was able to mimic Facebook's native functionality.
• Cybercrooks Target File-Sharing Networks Security experts at Kaspersky Labs warn that cybercriminals are shifting their focus from worms and spams to file-sharing services.
• Privacy Worries on Facebook? Just Wait A CMU researcher warns that technology needs to strike a balance between privacy concerns and useful data mining.
• Italian Police Arrest Hacker Sought for Fraud Italian police have arrested an alleged hacker who is accused of defrauding banks and mobile phone operators out of several million dollars.
• Twitter's DNS Provider Denies Hack Rerouting was managed from within Twitter's own account, says the microblogging site's domain manager.
• World Tech Update: Lawsuits, RFID, and PhotoDNA The EC ends its investigation of Microsoft, the FTC files a lawsuit against Intel, TeliaSonera launches an LTE network, and PhotoDNA helps find missing children.
• Google’s Dashboard Approach to Privacy Dashboard gathers privacy controls and settings for most Google services onto one page--but only for Google accounts.
• Bugs and Fixes: Zero-Day Patch for Internet Explorer 6 or 7 A critical bug in IE; plus patches for Office, Java, Shockwave, and Mac OS X.
• Predator Drone's Video Feed Hacked on the Cheap U.S. officials say Iraqi militants have obtained access to the drone’s video feeds by using $26 programs like SkyGrabber.
• Twitter Goes Down: Apparently Hacked? Twitter went down for a time late Thursday night, amid reports of a possible hack.
• Is Backing Up Online Safe? LaTonya Powell asked if online backup is really secure