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Sarah Brown's tears for Gary: PM's wife backs Mail campaign to stop extradition of man who hacked Pentagon

Face to face in Downing Street, two women wept yesterday over the plight of an autistic man threatened with life in a U.S. jail.

MSC - First 13.56MHz RFID device with 64-bit embedded cryptographic engine

MSC - First 13.56MHz RFID device with 64-bit embedded cryptographic engine Designed to prevent counterfeiting, Atmel's CryptoRF is now available from MSC Vertriebs. CryptoRF is the world's first 13.56MHz RFID device with 64-bit embedded cryptographic engine, dual authentication capability, and 1 to 64 Kbits memory, each with up to 16 individually configurable sectors. CryptoRF provides superior security in its class, flexibility, and a wide range of memory densities, says the company.

Kentucky payroll phishing scam nets small fortune

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Brown's tears for Gary: PM's wife backs Mail campaign to stop extradition of man who hacked Pentagon

Face to face in Downing Street, two women wept yesterday over the plight of an autistic man threatened with life in a U.S. jail.

So why is the U.S. so eager to lock up the Asperger's Syndrome hacker?

The case was launched against Gary McKinnon in the aftermath of 9/11 attacks when the U.S. was on high alert

McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide

IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death.

Nasa hacker petition presented to Numb...

Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US.

Marketers Threaten Twitter Over Spammers.

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'Remembering Michael Jackson' is a virus

SINGAPORE:Michael Jackson is gone, leaving behind his legacy of music, a controversial life and a huge liability. Since everything pertaining to eternal MJ is news, cyber criminals are finding it easy to make hay in the name of the legendary pop star.

PC makers offer China Internet filter

SHANGHAI (AFP) - Several PC makers said Friday they were voluntarily including China's controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing's decision to postpone making it mandatory.

Ex-Wurld employees: Show us the money: Former workers seek back pay and damages from escrow account

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Nineteen former employees of Wurld Media Inc. want to pry open an escrow account set up after the sale of the company's assets two years ago.

Obama Cybersecurity Plan To Involve NSA, Probably AT&T... (DJ)

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES The Obama administration plans to proceed with a Bush era cybersecurity program to use help from the National Security Agency to screen traffic between government computer systems and private-sector networks, with AT&T Inc. (T) as the probable test site, according to the Washington Post, citing three current and past government officials.

Kentucky payroll phishing scam nets small fortune

A gang of cybercrooks has made off with $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky following the conclusion of an elaborate phishing scam, The Washington Post reports.

"Luxembourg attacks" on AES encryption

A team of cryptologists at Luxembourg university have made substantial theoretical progress with attacks on the AES-192 and AES-256 encryption standards. In their paper, scientists Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich describe how to crack an AES-256 key with a time complexity of 2^123 and an AES-192 key with a time complexity of 2^176 under certain circumstances. Due to some special characteristics, however, the attacks have no practical relevance for the security of AES-encrypted data.

New Digi TransPort VPN concentrator enables easy end-to-end connectivity of remote wireless devices

Digi International introduced the Digi TransPort VC7400, an enterprise-class virtual private network (VPN) concentrator that provides easy, secure connectivity to large installations of remote cellular or wired devices. It is ideal for retail, financial/ATM, lottery and telemetry applications. Coupled with Digi's VPN enabled cellular routers at remote sites, the centralized Digi TransPort VC7400 makes it easy to set up a secure, reliable and fully integrated VPN solution.

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Gaze-tracking software offers new approach to computer security

BALTIMORE — Bill Anderson calls it his "a-ha" moment — a flash of insight from which he drew a career-altering connection between decades-old research and his job as a computer security expert.

A Self-Healing, Self-Protecting Collaborative Intrusion Detection Architecture to Trace-Back Fast-Flux Phishing Domains

Overview: Millions of users divulge their personal information on phishing websites, which causes over a billion dollars loss every year. Phishing domain take-down is the most promising approach to address this security issue, since there will be nothing there for a misled user to see if the fraudulent website has been removed completely. A key part of the take-down procedure is phishing hosting system trace-back. Traditional phishing hosting machines can be identified relatively quickly by their public DNS name or directly if their IP address is embedded within spam email. This paper proposes a decentralized collaborative intrusion detection approach to address this defense challenge, which is based on Collaborative Intrusion Detection System (CIDS) architecture.

Hackers crack ColdFusion

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Hackers target mobile phones

Increased access to the internet via mobile phones has increased the risk of being targeted by the viruses and hackers that prowl the Internet. Security experts today all concur that mobile phones are the least protected devices in the entire computing arena leaving them at the mercy of internet evils.

Cyberspace: The Next Battleground

European space transportation provider Arianespace has launched its largest satellite ever on behalf of TerreStar Networks, which plans a hybrid satellite/cellular service in the U.S. and Canada.

PGP Whole Disk Encryption 9.10

PGP's Whole Disk Encryption is a software application that provides multiple encryption options for a host machine. This includes the entire disk (boot sectors, system and swap files) as well as removable media and custom volume encryption. WDE can be used as a standalone product, but is also bundled with PGP's Desktop suite. PGP uses keys or passphrases to encrypt and decrypt data on the storage device. Keys and policies can be managed using PGP's Universal Server, but we did not test this management component. Version 9.10 of WDE can be installed on Windows 2000, XP, Vista (32- and 64-bit) and is now compatible with Mac OS X.

Obama Cybersecurity Plan To Involve NSA, Probably AT&T -Report

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Obama Cybersecurity Plan To Involve NSA, Probably AT&T -Report

The Obama administration plans to proceed with a Bush era cybersecurity program to use help from the National Security Agency to screen traffic between government computer systems and private-sector networks, with AT&T Inc. (T) as the probable test site, according to the Washington Post, citing three current and past government officials.

Apple Mac, iPhone, iPod touch exempt from Chinese Internet filter

"Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country," Owen Fletcher reports for IDG News Service.