The Glider

IT staff are beginning to restore access to computer systems at three London hospitals that were hit with a malware attack last week…….

The Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG) will enable federal agencies to focus their security expenditures on fixing the vulnerabilities that are most frequently exploited, before addressing those that are more hypothetical, and to enable agency inspectors general to verify that the most important problems are fixed first…….

NASA Chief Information Officer Jonathan Pettus last week issued a memo clarifying agency policy on the use of removable media…….

An in-depth look at cyber attacks directed at NASA finds that the agency has been the target of computer network intrusions for at least a decade…….

Symantec’s "Report on Underground Economy" says that some cyber criminals are breaking into companies’ computer systems for one very specific reason: to check if stolen credit card information is valid…….

The case against Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero has finally come to a close…….

Verizon Wireless has fired an unspecified number of employees for looking at President-elect Barack Obama’s cell phone records…….

Last week, the US District court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Facebook in a spam case, saying that Adam Guerbuez and his company Atlantic Blue Capital were guilty of violations of the CAN-SPAM Act…….

A buffer overflow flaw in the Windows Vista TCP/IP Stack could be exploited to hide rootkits on vulnerable computers or cause denial-of-service conditions…….

Microsoft said that the November version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool cleaned phony security software from almost one million computers in just nine days…….