LulzSec brought down by own leader

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17270822

EXCLUSIVE: Infamous international hacking group LulzSec brought down by own leader | Fox News

Sony hit again...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13288532

WikiLeaks

Does leaking secret or governmental information endanger world peace or improve transparency?
Who watches the watchers?
Who is guilty of what and under which jurisdiction?
How does it differ from someone leaving an unencrypted laptop in a public place, and the contents published by a traditional media outlet?

Symantec's Stuxnet Dossier

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/w32_stuxnet_dossier.pdf

New attack bypasses virtually all AV protection

This looks ominous...
New attack bypasses virtually all AV protection • The Register

Report: Google Hackers Stole Source Code of Global Password System | Threat Level | Wired.com

Report: Google Hackers Stole Source Code of Global Password System Threat Level Wired.com

Bank Worker Pleads Guilty to Hacking 100 ATMs

Bank Worker Pleads Guilty to Hacking 100 ATMs Threat Level Wired.com

Spy Eye trojan kills Zeus

Not for the first time, one trojan tries to kill another:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9154618/New_Russian_botnet_tries_to_kill_rival/

Zeus Trojan aka Kneber infection count over 74000

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10455525-245.html?tag=mncol;title

China shuts down training website for hackers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/as-a-pacific/8503637.stm

Rapid 7 aquires metasploit!

Let's see how this one pans out going forward!
http://www.csoonline.com/article/505574/Making_Sense_of_Rapid7_s_Metasploit_Acquisition

Clampi Trojan: bigger and better

Another professionally written piece of malware:
http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218800077
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10298233-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1009_3-0-20

Your mobile number available to anyone?

This looks like a genuine worry:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/8091621.stm

This potentially opens the door to more SMS spam to find its way to your inbox.

This should be an opt in service rather than opt out.

You can either send a text to 118800 or do it on their website, which must be hammered as it is down:
http://www.118800.co.uk/

The Guardian seems to confirm this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jul/13/mobile-phone-directory-suspended

Kon Boot illustrates why physical security still matters most

http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/

This little utility allows modification of the Windows and LINUX kernel whilst booting to allow log on without knowing the password.

Crypto attack puts digital sig hash on collision course

At the register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/digital_signature_weakness/

We truly never learn!

Laptop left in boot of car overnight in Edinburgh contained information about thousands of soldiers...
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Army39s-stolen--laptop-sparks.5283785.jp

I use a Mac so I'm ok

Java vulnerability on Mac is still not patched 6 months on:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/19/unpatched_apple_vulnerability/

It sounds like it is being actively exploited. The mitigation is to disable the browser's Java applets as well as the "Open safe files after downloading" setting in Safari.

What took them so long to get infected?

The U.S. Marshals Service, a division of the Department of Justice, recently got crippled by Neeris. The virus was first discovered on 12th September 2007. The service was running anti malware, but that had not been updated for three years, and Windows patches had not been applied either.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052109-marshall-malware.html?hpg1=bn

Storm Worm botnet cracked wide open

Interesting article, especially concerning the legal implications of eradicating a rather large botnet:
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Storm-Worm-botnet-cracked-wide-open--/news/112385

Kaminsky's DNS flaw story

Not new, but an interesting read in this Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kaminsky?currentPage=all