Top 10: Economic woes, AMD splits, Microsoft developments   10 Oct 2008 21:38 GMT
Not all of this week's news involved global financial turmoil. While IT budgets are being cut and AMD is breaking itself up, a security tool was released for Firefox that prevents "clickjacking" and Microsoft said that Windows 7 will fix issues in Vista's user account control feature.
Source: InfoWorld

US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures   10 Oct 2008 16:45 GMT
The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...
Source: ZDNet

ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market   10 Oct 2008 15:20 GMT
The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...
Source: ZDNet

Consumers score a partial win against Walmart   10 Oct 2008 12:24 GMT
Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
Source: ZDNet

U.S. gov't proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file   10 Oct 2008 12:21 GMT
The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers.
Source: InfoWorld

Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator   10 Oct 2008 03:50 GMT
We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...
Source: ZDNet

MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical   09 Oct 2008 23:12 GMT
It will be a very busy Patch Tuesday for administrators managing Microsoft Windows computer systems. According to Microsoft's advance notice mechanism, 11 security bulletins will drop next Tuesday (October 14, 2008), covering a wide range of serious vulnerabilities. Four of the 11 bulletins are...
Source: ZDNet

Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed   09 Oct 2008 22:18 GMT
Apple has shipped another whopper of a patch to cover a total of 40 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X ecosystem. The Security Update 2008-007, available for Tiger and Leopard, covers a range of third-party components and Mac OS X flaws that could users at risk...
Source: ZDNet

Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!   09 Oct 2008 21:26 GMT
Proud owners of ASUS's Eee Box mini PC got more than they bargained for - malware. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Source: ZDNet

Microsoft to improve Vista's problematic UAC in Windows 7   09 Oct 2008 18:32 GMT
Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned UAC (user account control) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista has caused unnecessary problems for users.
Source: InfoWorld