Robert Lemos

Malicious coders are increasingly playing a shell game, using a technology known as “fast flux” to make locating key servers more difficult.
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Hearings on the Hill reveal a significant number of security breaches at the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, State and Energy.
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Following a judge’s ruling to throw out a verdict based on faulty digital forensics, a group of security professionals, legal experts and educators look to the future.
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A working group of security researchers, digital-rights activists and government prosecutors discuss whether bug hunters can find vulnerabilities in Web sites without violating laws.
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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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The Phoenix New Times has a good investigative piece on one of the co-founders of identity-protection firm Lifelock, Robert Maynard, Jr., who apparently has had a checkered past.

According to the piece, Maynard has filed for bankruptcy; he had to close down his previous company, a credit-repair service, after the federal government banned him from the industry for fraud; and he reportedly ran up more than $150,000 on an American Express card that he took out in his father’s name, an act that the New Times rightfully compares to identity fraud.

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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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