Microsoft confirms IE6, IE7 zero-day bug
Microsoft today confirmed that exploit code published last week can compromise PCs running older versions of Internet Explorer, but said its security team has not yet seen any in-the-wild attacks. Read more...

New iPhone worm steals online banking codes, builds botnet

NASA's Atlantis astronauts take final spacewalk, prepare for return

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New attack fells Internet Explorer

Global warming research exposed after hack

Teen gets prison term for attack on Scientology Web site

iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code

Judge sets schedule for Google book search case

Banks on watch after suspected card breach

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4 Cheap Options to Monitor Networks for Evidence
Investigations manager Brandon Gregg explains how to collect evidence for network investigations on the cheap without damaging the mission at hand.

Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

Three indicted for Comcast hack last year
Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008.

Security pro says new SSL attack can hit many sites
A Seattle computer security consultant says he's developed a new way to exploit a recently disclosed bug in the SSL protocol, used to secure communications on the Internet. The attack, while difficult to execute, could give attackers a very powerful phishing attack.

Cyberattacks on U.S. military jump sharply in 2009
Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday.

Supply Chain Data on Holiday 2009 Hotties
New supply-chain import data analyzed by Panjiva, as well its new Trends product, shows who's hot and who's not this holiday gift-giving season. Watch out kiddos: Coal imports are on the rise!

When the Backup Drive Gets Full
Rat74136's external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.

A Tale of Two Insiders
In 1992, a British bank sent an employee to Singapore to launch and manage its trading operations. The employee engaged in speculative derivatives trading which counted on the Japanese market remaining stable. Unfortunately for him, the Kobe earthquake in 1995 sent the Nikkei into a state of volatility. His risky trades led to $1 billion in losses for the bank.

Q&A: Encryption effort on track despite VeriFone dispute, says Heartland CEO
In a conversation with Computerworld today, Heartland CEO and Chairman Robert Carr blasted VeriFone's lawsuit and its suggestion that Heartland is incapable of supporting VeriFone customers.

The Botnet Hunters
A self-proclaimed geek from the age of 14, Andre DiMino had always been interested in computers and networking. But it wasn't until he entered his professional life many years later that he became interested in the security side of that world.

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