Tiger Woods' car accident on Friday has already sparked malware attacks. Websites offering video footage take victims to the inevitable fake codec.
UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson is to let the US extradite NASA hacker Gary McKinnon after deciding that recently announced medical evidence was not sufficient to keep him in the country. His family and lawyers allege that he is suicidal and may end his life if he is forced to leave the country for the US, where he faces harsh sentencing.
A new variant of the Koobface malware is now targeting Skype users. It steals their contact lists and can instant message those people to spread itself.
Clearly, malware does pay - in more ways than one. Proof of concept iPhone worm developer Ashley Towns has been hired by Australian iPhone applications firm mogeneration.
Red Condor has warned of a spam campaign that uses phishing and malware together. The phishing mail asks victims to update their Flash player, but serves them a banking trojan instead.
Worm_Piloyd.B is spreading like wildfire in China.
Neil Felahy of California pled guilty to selling counterfeit computer processors to the US Navy. The maximum sentence for conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit goods is 10 years and a $2 million fine.
Proving than in the malware world nothing is sacred, The Shaolin Temple's web site has been hacked. This is the latest attack on the temple's website, this time by a prankster who posted a fake message apologizing for its commercial activities.
In yet another governmental gaffe, the Department of Defense has lost 72 000 health questionnaires that were supposed to be incorporated into its database, said the Government Accountability Office in a report called Defense Heath Care: Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Documentation Needs Improvement.
But the government is helping the private sector, at least. Richard Schaeffer, information assurance director at the National Security Agency, told a congressional committee that the Agency was helping Red Hat, Sun, Microsoft and Apple to harden their operating systems.