Robert Lemos

An ongoing investigation, dubbed Operation Rolling Stone by the U.S. Secret Service, has turned up links to the massive debit-card breaches that have worried banks and consumers.
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Citing an ongoing investigation into the deal by the U.S. Treasury Department, the companies decide to call it quits.
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Even as media giant Sony BMG settles six cases in New York, a security researcher finds hundreds of thousands of networks appear to still contain PCs with the controversial copy protection installed.
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After three years of modest or no gains, the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities jumped in 2005, boosted by easy-to-find bugs in Web applications. Yet, questions remain about the value of analyzing current databases, whose data rarely correlates easily.
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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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The Attorney General for Texas announces the state is suing Sony BMG, calling the company’s copy-protection technology “illegal spyware.”
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced plans on Wednesday to pull from store shelves nearly 2.6 million CDs that include a controversial copy-protection program, offer consumers an opportunity to return the discs, and create a more secure program to help remove the software from people’s computers.
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Wary of the increasing number of online attacks against industrial control systems, the U.S. government has begun a major push to secure the systems used to control and monitor critical infrastructure, such as power, utility and transportation networks.
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A federally funded group of voting system experts called on the United States’ Election Assistance Commission, which oversees the nation’s state-run elections, to revamp its recommended process for evaluating the security of electronic voting devices.
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Three Chinese researchers refine an attack on the encryption standard used to digitally sign documents, leaving cryptographers to debate whether the Secure Hash Algorithm needs to be mothballed more quickly.
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