Robert Lemos

Prosecutors and consumer advocates are on the attack against adware. Is a future without deceptive ad software attainable?
PC Magazine

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I saw this post over at the EmergentChaos blog and wanted to provide some different numbers. Basically, Adam estimates that 8.9 percent of the U.S. population is affected by the recent data leak at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Actually, the percentage at risk is a bit higher, if you look at the right population.

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The records of nearly 26.5 million veterans–including names, social security numbers and dates of birth–were stolen from the home of a federal employee.
SecurityFocus

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Today, cell-phone viruses are not a big deal. But if you think your phone will always be safe, think again.
PC Magazine

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Under threat of further attacks on its service and users, an Israeli anti-spam startup decides to shutter its service.
SecurityFocus

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Concerns raised by a rural county in Utah helped an electronic voting watchdog discover a critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems’ touchscreen terminal–a flaw that state election officials and security experts warn could pose a risk to elections.
SecurityFocus

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Carl Linnaeus would be disgusted by today’s virus alerts. The 18th-century botanist herded the scientific community of the day into accepting his hierarchical classification system for plants and animals. Thanks to Linnaeus, scientists today can discuss living things using a shared nomenclature.
PC Magazine

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Threatened by investigators’ ability to tap into chat-based command-and-control networks, bot masters increasingly look to peer-to-peer communications, encryption and other technologies to hide their tracks.
SecurityFocus

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