Robert Lemos

A great story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about a woman who happen to see the thief who had stolen her identity six months before. The woman, Karen Lodrick, followed and then, when she was found out, chased the thief through San Francisco.

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A Connecticut judge grants a new trial for substitute teacher Julie Amero, saying that forensics information discovered after her conviction has direct bearing on her case.
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A security analyst tries his hand at selling two vulnerabilities and finds that economics and time are against him.
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A security researcher warns that an insecure update mechanism for some of the open-source browser’s third-party add-ons could allow an attacker the ability to install malicious code.
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Attackers compromise the hub servers of the DC++ peer-to-peer network, turning hundreds of thousands of clients into hard-to-stop distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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A Congressional committee calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.
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Wired Magazine has a nice feature article on the Linkin Park cyberstalking incident, including extensive interviews with the private investigator involved and with the Linkin Park lead singer Chester Charlie Bennington and his wife.

The case hit the press last November, when investigators arrested a 29-year-old employee of Sandia National Labs for allegedly committing the crimes.

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Only a few weeks after researchers raised the design issue in the next-generation Internet protocol, two drafts to the Internet Engineering Task Force propose different fixes.
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Federal prosecutors claim the company and its owners violated federal funds transfer laws, saying it knowingly served online scammers, identity thieves and child pornographers.
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Researchers use a previously unknown flaw in Apple’s Safari browser to compromise a MacBook Pro and win the PWN to Own contest, but does the hack actually prove anything?
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UPDATE: More on the vulnerability, which is a Java flaw in QuickTime.

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