SANS News Headlines

Indian authorities have postponed a planned ban on BlackBerry services for 60 days while they study and test a proposal from Blackberry parent company Research in Motion (RIM) to allow security agencies more access to certain Blackberry communications.......

Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin has been charged with wire fraud and access device fraud for his alleged involvement with an attack on RBS WorldPay.......

A storage area network (SAN) memory card failure at the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) left at least two dozen agencies without the ability to conduct business.......

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking proposals for technologies to help detect insider threats quickly.......

Hari Prasad, the Indian researcher who was arrested for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine, has been released on bail.......

Eight hosting providers that had been supporting command and control servers for the Pushdo botnet have cooperated with efforts to take down the machines.......

The Zeroll worm spreads through various instant messaging (IM) clients, tailoring the language of the accompanying message to the country in which the computer appears to be to increase its chances of spreading.......

An experiment involving the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) went awry last week, disrupting one to two percent of Internet traffic for about half an hour on Friday, August 27 at 9:00 am Greenwich Mean Time.......

In a letter to LimeWire CEO George Searle, US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Associate Director Mary Koelbel Engle said that following an investigation, no further action will be taken against the company.......

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found the Yorkshire Building Society to be in violation of the UK's Data Protection Act.......

The Pentagon has acknowledged that a cyber attack in 2008 allowed an unnamed foreign intelligence agency to gain access to US military computer systems.......

Noting that "it's hard to get a measure like cyber security passed on its own," US Senator Tom Carper (D-Delaware) said that legislators may attach cyber security legislation to a defense authorization bill, which is likely to pass before November's mid-term elections.......

The UK's Financial Services Authority has fined the UK branch of Zurich Insurance GBP 2.......

Privacy attorney Joseph Malley has filed a lawsuit against Specificmedia for using technology to respawn cookies that users have deleted.......

The IBM X-Force 2010 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report notes a 36 percent increase in the number of new vulnerabilities reported during the first half of 2010 when compared to the same period in 2009.......

The Chinese government has told banks and other large companies to limit their use of computer security technology from outside the country.......

Apple has issued a security update for OS X to address 13 security flaws.......

California legislators have passed a bill that would specify what information companies must include in data breach notification letters.......

For the second time in a week, the website of Ireland's Central Applications Office (CAO) was the target of a cyber attack.......