| The white knight of phish-busting, 12/24/2007 Until just a few months ago, Gary Warner did not have the kind of day job you'd expect from an antiphishing crusader. He didn't work for a security ... Hackers quickly move to exploit Bhutto assassination, 12/28/07 Within hours of yesterday's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware makers exploited the breaking news to dupe users into downloading attack code, security researchers said Friday. Google replies to lawmaker's questions on privacy, 12/24/07 Google has responded to a U.S. congressman's series of questions about its privacy practices, with the company defending its use of consumer data. Storm worm tempts with Christmas strip show , 12/24/07 The criminals behind the Storm botnet waited until the last minute, but they've finally started delivering unwanted Christmas presents. U.K. health chief defends plan for records database, 12/24/07 The head of the U.K. National Health Service has defended plans to build a centralized database of patient records following another embarrassing loss of personal information by the government. Enterasys-Bluesocket union in the works?, 12/21/07 Speculation is swirling that network equipment maker Enterasys Networks is buying wireless security company Bluesocket, which recently announced its first 802.11n products. McAfee to pay $13.8 million to settle backdating lawsuits, 12/22/07 McAfee has taken two major steps toward closing the stock-option backdating scandal that has plagued the company for the past two years. 'Bricking' bug threatens most HP, Compaq laptops, 12/20/07 The hacker who posted an exploit last week that threatened a large swath of HP's laptop lineup followed up Wednesday with new attack code that can "brick" nearly every HP laptop. Russians close to prosecuting 'Pinch' Trojan authors, 12/21/07 Russia may soon prosecute the authors of the "Pinch" Trojan, an easy-to-use malicious software program available on the Internet that steals a variety of data. Forget the U.K.: What happens here if the IRS loses our data?, 12/20/07 Could the loss of data from the huge Internal Revenue Service master files cause a financial meltdown in this country? That's what some experts are pondering as the U.K. mops up the mess left in the wake of the disappearance of two password-protected CDs containing the country's entire database of child benefit recipients -- 25 million people. The breach, which happened when a third-party delivery company lost the discs, affected four out of 10 people in the U.K., the largest relative segment of a country's population involved in a privacy violation ever publicly disclosed. Dutch spyware makers fined $1.45 million, 12/20/07 The Dutch telecommunications regulator OPTA has fined the two companies behind the DollarRevenue adware program €1 million ($1.45 million). | 
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