PC Pro: News: Two men arrested in connection with Zotob attacks

"Police in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two men in connection with the 'Mytob' and 'Zotob' worms which caused chaos in computer systems around the world earlier this month

The two men are Farid Essebar, 18, a Moroccan citizen originally from Russia who went by the screen name 'Diabl0' and 21 year old Atilla Ekici, who goes by the name of 'Coder,' from Turkey. The arrests follow co-operation between Microsoft, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies in Morocco and Turkey."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Poor print exposing Pin numbers

"The Pin numbers of millions of consumers are being put at risk by shoddy printing, warn security experts."

Breach Exposes U.S. Air Force Officers to ID Theft

WASHINGTON (Reuters)—More than 33,000 U.S. Air Force officers could be at greater risk of identity theft after a "malicious user" accessed a database containing personal information, an Air Force official said on Tuesday.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 2000 worm hits US firms

"More than 100 companies have been hit by computer viruses that exploit a recently found loophole in Windows.

The New York Times, CNN, ABC News and heavy plant maker Caterpillar all had computer problems caused by a family of malicious worms."

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft in $7m spam settlement

"US software giant Microsoft has won a $7m (�3.9m) court settlement from a businessman considered to be one of the world's biggest senders of spam e-mail."

InternetWeek | ID Theft: Meeting The Problem Head-On

"What’s really scary about identity fraud is the final chapter, when victims – not their banks or credit card companies – discover the crime, usually almost six months afterward, with no real advocate to help them argue their innocence and get their money back."

HP Fights Viruses With Open Source

"HP announced a slew of Linux initiatives today, including its Virus Throttle security technology and the availability of more than 200 open source packages that can run on its open source server.

The announcements come as LinuxWorld San Francisco kicks off and vendors of all stripes peddle their Linux wares to throngs of open source devotees."

How to keep data safe when outsourcing offshore - Computerworld

"As U.S. businesses, policy-makers and security experts work to stem the tide of data thefts, an equal or greater vulnerability lurks overseas -- the level of network and physical security at outsourced operations of U.S. corporations."

Technology News: Security: Virus Designer Makes Potential Threat to Microsoft Vista

"The Microsoft Command Shell technology was scheduled for release as part of Windows Vista, but is now tied to the release of Exchange 12 in the second half of 2006. It is not yet clear whether it will ever be a standard feature of Vista."

Technology News: Commentary : Reconsidering Total Information Awareness

"Following the example of the United Kingdom, San Francisco officials have installed two surveillance cameras in a high-crime area. This popular trend is perhaps only the beginning of an 'always on' surveillance society.

Compared with the 4.2 million cameras installed in the UK, San Francisco's two are perhaps laughable. Even so, they made mayor Gavin Newsom squeamish."