The case against a computer hacker who faced extradition to the US on charges of breaking in to sensitive military computers has been adjourned.
New home secretary Theresa May has paused Gary McKinnon’s extradition proceedings so she can fully consider the issues in his case.
Free antivirus started life nearly two decades ago as security’s poor relation, little more than a way of ensnaring users with limited features that would give them an excuse to upgrade to paid-for software later on. A number of software vendors built their marketing on such products, even if the bigger brands were sometimes too sniffy to dare offering something as lowly as a ‘free’ product.
The internet mailbox for the Chinese version of the ‘got talent’ TV talent show has been compromised with sensitive information exposed.
Hackers have penetrated German underground forum carders.cc, copied login details, e-mail addresses and private e-mails from several thousand members and published them on RapidShare. According to a list seen by The H’s associates at heise Security, the forum software had also logged the IP addresses of nearly one thousand members over a specific period. These have also been published.
The latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report from Symantec Hosted Services is filled with interesting and useful information regarding the current state of malware and e-mail borne threats as well as the trends over time. Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that “any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine.”
Microsoft has announced the release of the latest versions of the business editions of Office and SharePoint.
Internet users in Germany can now be fined up to €100 if a third party takes advantage of their unprotected WLAN connection to illegally download music or other files.
Linux systems are five times more likely than Windows machines to be used to send spam, according to a Symantec report that highlights the part that Linux plays in the growing spam problem.
European data protection advisers have said it was ‘unacceptable’ for Facebook to make some of its users’ data public without their permission at the end of last year.