The Glider

IT staff are still working to eradicate the effects of a Mytob worm infection that forced the shutdown of computer systems at three London, UK-area hospitals…….

A Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services survey of more than 100 Irish ecommerce websites found that 65 percent do not employ stringent online payment security measures…….

A computer virus has shut down the computer systems at Barts in the City, the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green…….

A US District Court in Florida has granted a request from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for a temporary restraining order preventing the sale of RemoteSpy keylogger spyware while its case against CyberSpy Software is pending…….

Changes to the UK’s Computer Misuse Act (CMA) criminalizing DDoS attacks and distributed attack tools have finally taken effect in England and Wales…….

Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson has taken on the case of a Boston University graduate student who has been targeted by a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)…….

David Kernell, the Tennessee college student accused of breaking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account, will face trial in May 2009…….

A Burmese blogger was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison for crimes against public tranquility and video and electronics laws offenses…….

A German man who admitted in a telephone interview to having figured out how to break into the network at computer game developer Valve evaded arrest by not taking the bait of a follow-up interview on American soil…….

A new phishing attack is spreading in the guise of a scam warning from the US Federal Reserve…….