SANS News Headlines

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.......

A botnet family dubbed YoyoDdos is believed to be responsible for nearly 200 attacks on websites in China, the US, Germany and South Korea.......

Microsoft has issued an advisory about the insecure DLL loading vulnerability.......

US legislators want to know why US Marshalls Service stored images of body scans taken at a Florida courthouse.......

Microsoft says it will not issue patches to fix the critical DLL (dynamic link library) flaw in multiple applications, but will instead address the issue in future Windows and Office service packs.......

Four people have been arrested in Calgary in connection with a payment card fraud scheme.......

Police in India have arrested researcher Hari Prasad for refusing to name the individual who provided him with an electronic voting machine that had been used in recent elections.......

Police in Germany have confiscated five PCs and associated storage media while serving a search warrant for the house of an administrator who works for Perfect Privacy, a VPN (virtual private network) provider.......

Blog platform Blogetery.......

Google has released an updated version of its Chrome browser, 5.......