Robert Lemos

YEAR IN REVIEW: High-profile data breaches leaked more than 50 million database records in the United States, while phishing, bot networks, and targeted Trojan horses compromised millions of PCs worldwide.
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A 20-year-old German man turned himself in to authorities after receiving a copy of the mass-mailing virus, which arrives attached to an e-mail message claiming that law enforcement is investigating the recipient.
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Online auctioneer eBay pulls a seller’s second attempt to make money from a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel as security professionals argue that a free market in vulnerabilities could improve software security.
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The online auction giant shuts down the bidding for a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet program, saying that the sale of flaw research violates the site’s policy against encouraging illegal activity.
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A study of Internet users finds that fewer home PCs had been compromised by spyware or a virus infection than the year before, but the large majority still lack spyware protection, up-to-date antivirus or a properly configured firewall.
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Data from Microsoft sheds light on the extensive spread of “the threat that replicated to more computer systems than any other malicious software in history.”
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A federal database of software vulnerabilities funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has decided on a common method of ranking flaw severity and has assigned scores to the more than 13,000 vulnerabilities currently contained in its database, the group announced this week.
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