SANS News Headlines

According to a paper released by McAfee at the RSA Conference, the attackers who breached systems at Google and other companies went after source-code management systems.......

A planned Israeli raid on a Palestinian village in the West Bank was called off after a soldier posted information about it on Facebook.......

Spanish authorities have arrested three people in connection with a botnet that comprised as many as 12.......

Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano described steps the government is taking to develop a strategic approach to cyber security.......

Microsoft has released a reworked version of the MS10-015 security update that caused problems for some users when it was released last month.......

If home users were to apply every security patch available for applications on their Windows PCs, they would be facing roughly 75 instances of patching every year, or one every five days, according to Secunia.......

Speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week, former Homeland security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that effective computer security is too complicated for average computer users.......

The White House has declassified portions of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI).......

RealNetworks has reached a settlement regarding the company's DVD-copying software, pre-empting a trial in the case.......

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has overturned a law that allowed the retention of telephone and email data for anti-terrorism investigations.......

A class action lawsuit filed last month alleges that The Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin (Illinois) leaked confidential patient information through a peer-to-peer file sharing network.......

White House Internet security adviser Howard Schmidt is expected to announce the declassification of portions of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative today, March 2, 2010 at the opening of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.......

A new Pentagon policy will allow all personnel to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter on non-classified networks.......

A US federal appeals court has ordered Whitney Harper, now 22 and a senior at Texas Tech University, to pay US $27,750 for 37 music files she shared when she was in high school.......

A bill currently under consideration in the US Senate spells out how the nation's critical IT infrastructure would be protected during a nationwide cyber attack.......

Four men have been indicted in a ticket resale scheme that involved bots and made the defendants more than US $25 million over an eight year period.......

Microsoft is investigating reports of a zero-day flaw in Visual Basic Scripting (VBScript) and Windows Help that could be exploited to place malware on Windows XP and Server 2003 computers running Internet Explorer (IE) versions 7 and 8.......

Microsoft plans to use the same legal measures it obtained to disable the Waledac botnet to target other botnets.......

Renukanth Subramaniam has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for establishing the DarkMarket underground carder forum.......