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In news out of the City By The Bay, a majority of the charges levied by the City and County of San Francisco against their former network administrator – Terry Childs – have been dropped. In an action on Friday, August 21st, Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy dropped three individual tampering charges laid against the [...]

Accountability? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Accountability…
Bad news, from highly respected security researchers LegitScript and KnuJon: Stunning evidence has come to light – to wit, the vast majority (over 85%) of internet-based pharmacy advertisers flogging their wares on Microsoft Corporation’s (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Bing search site (referred to by the company as a ‘decision engine’) are [...]

MessageLabs has released their 2009 Second Quarter Intelligence Report, in PDF format. Interesting statistics include: Junes’ spam levels, as measured by the company, remained unchanged from May’s numbers (apparently due to the Cutwail botnet shutdown – mh). More information, including a link to the report page, appears after the jump.

News (0n July 4th),  from the ShadowServer Foundation, of new activity attributed to Waledec infestations spamming the interwebs. More information, including the malware-laden domain names (for blocking) appear after jump.

News, yesterday, of the latest censorship actions targeting BlackHat presenters. This time, Juniper Networks has muffled the presentation slated for the hack confab by Barnaby Jack, an employee of the networking concern. Not surprisingly, his presentation, focused on Automated Teller Machine vulnerabilities, was seen as a threat. A short snippet of the original news item [...]

News,  from Wired.com’s DangerRoom of new, pernicious DDoS attacks targeting the Iranian regime, in the wake of the country’s internal policatical issues. More information, including a short excerpt of the original article, appears after the jump.

News, overnight, of the apparent leaky security stance of specific South Korean systems to cyberwar and terror related attacks. More information, including a short snippet of the original post, appears after the jump.

News, mid-week: A discovery [by Trustwave's SpiderLabs] of apparent massive, worldwide malware infections targeting automated teller machines (ATM)… Oops. A short excerpt of the original post appears, along with appropriate linkage, after the jump.

News, of a mass attack, subsequent compromise, and the resultant redirect of web sites numbered in the tens of thousands. Of course, the redirect is aided and abetted by typo-squatters, thence the redirect to a malicious site. More information, including a short excerpt of the original eWeek article by Brian Prince appears after jump.

News, last week of the recently discovered penetration of two (or more) United States Department of the Army web server platforms by  Turkish miscreants, with an eye for cybercrime. Geographically dispersed, wyet linked within the DoD infrastructure, with one at the  McAlester Ammunition Plant in McAlester, Oklahoma., while the other, reportedly is at the  United [...]