Personal identification, health, and medical information is available on Gnutella and eDonkey.
Tags: security, news, P2P, network, researchers

The Penguin News' site was replaced with a list of claims regarding the Falkland Islands.
Tags: hackers, news, penguin, Web site, hacked

French anti-doping authorities have accused Floyd Landis of hacking into a lab computer in order to discredit test results.
Tags: data, hackers, database, news, hacking

The credit reporting firm has sent W-2 forms to its employees with their Social Security numbers visible.
Tags: security, news, social security number, service, payroll

Chinese news reports are offering limited if any coverage of last week's cyberattack on Google.
Tags: Publishing, Google, news, newspapers, Chinese

The German company's DNS service was almost brought down by the attack.
Tags: security, servers, DNS, news, DDOS Attack

The test will be used to assess how well banks, payment processors and retailers can handle the threats.
Tags: services, security, vulnerabilities, news, online banking

Three congressman have asked Janet Napolitano to look for ways to stop Web sites from reposting the TSA security manual.
Tags: security, media, IT, news, Wikileaks

The court ruled that the plaintiffs had not proved their allegations that Heartland had failed to safeguard consumer data adequately.
Tags: security, IT, news, security, CNET

Files containing the names, Social Security numbers, and zip codes of more than 24,000 employees were inadvertently posted on a publicly accessible Web site.
Tags: security, Brown, data, news, Web site

The company has released a report detailing how breaches happen and making recommendations on how to protect data.
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The plan contemplates having infected computers automatically connect to a special Web page every time they go online.
Tags: security, IT, government, news, viruses

The company’s leading areas of concern include banking Trojans, pharmaceutical spam, and click fraud.
Tags: Cisco, security, news, security, URLZone

Art Coviello rejected an offer from the Obama administration to become cybersecurity coordinator.
Tags: IT, news, RSA, job, HTML

The company filed a lawsuit this week in federal court in Utah over scams using its name.
Tags: consumer, Google, news, how-to

A Sophos study finds that most Facebook users are too willing to share personal information.
Tags: Facebook, e-Mail, security, news, security

The company has warned of security vulnerability that can be exploited via a malicious .eps file.
Tags: security, software, data, news, Adobe

Experts warn that the launch of internationalized domain names may cause a spike in phishing.
Tags: e-Mail, security, spam, phishing, news

McAfee’s new Mapping the Mal Web report names .cm as the world’s riskiest domain.
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Troj_Agent.AMRL is a Trojan that may be downloaded from a remote site.
Tags: Internet Explorer, IT, Internet Explorer, news, Internet