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Chinese Police Close Down Black Hawk Safety Net Hacker Site (February 8, 2010)

Chinese police have shut down a hacker site that was allegedly involved in recruiting and training thousands of people in malware and cyber attacks.......

Security Chip That Does Encryption in PCs Hacked (February 9, 2009)

Christopher Tarnovsky discovered a way to crack the TCP chip on which many military and commercial security schemes rely.......

UK Legislative Committee Concerned About Pending Anti-Piracy Law (February 5, 2010)

The UK's Joint Select Committee on Human Rights has expressed concern that pending anti-piracy legislation could violate Internet users' rights.......

FBI Wants ISP to Retain Sites Visited Data for Two Years (February 5, 2010)

The FBI wants Internet service providers (ISPs) to keep records of which websites its customers visit and to retain the data for two years.......

FBI Wants ISP to Retain Sites Visited Data for Two Years (February 5, 2010)

The FBI wants Internet service providers (ISPs) to keep records of which websites its customers visit and to retain the data for two years.......

Penn State Researchers Develop Algorithm That Fights Stealthy Worms (February 5 & 8, 2010)

Researchers at Penn State have developed code that targets local scanning worms.......

Prosecutors Transfer NASA and Cisco Hacker's Case to Sweden (February 8, 2010)

US prosecutors have announced that the case against a man who allegedly broke into computer systems at NASA and stole sensitive data will be transferred to Sweden.......

Microsoft Reminds Users of Windows Support Cutoff Dates (February 8, 2010)

Microsoft will stop support for Windows 2000 and certain versions of XP and Vista over the next few months.......

P2P Users Still Leaking Sensitive Data (February 5, 2010)

Researchers gave a presentation at ShmooCon last week that indicates that people using peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing programs are unaware of exactly what information they are making publicly available.......

Cyber Thieves Hit Poughkeepsie, New York Town Bank Account (February 5 & 8, 2010)

The town supervisor of Poughkeepsie, New York, has called it "unacceptable" that a local bank failed to notify her office of several attempted fund transfers to a bank account in Eastern Europe.......

Mozilla Removes Trojan-Laced Plug-Ins From Firefox Download Site (February 5 & 8, 2010)

Mozilla has removed a pair of plug-ins from its Firefox add-on site after learning that they contain malicious code.......

Oracle Releases Out-of-Cycle Patch for WebLogic Server Flaw (February 5 & 8, 2010)

Oracle has issued an out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in its WebLogic application server that was disclosed several weeks ago.......

Microsoft Issues 13 Security Bulletins to Address 26 Vulnerabilities (February 4, 2010)

Microsoft issued 13 security bulletins today.......