The Register: PayPal says sorry to Cryptome PayPal's chief of legal affairs has apologised to Cryptome

Computer World UK: Google to pull out of China soon, reports say Both Google and the Chinese government appear to be leaking word that the search firm may soon shutter its operations there as negotiations between the two break down

c|net: SXSW 2D bar code badge system confuses many

Wired: Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raise Questions

Over the past week, security researchers and vendors have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with a cybercrime-friendly ISP known as TROYAK-AS, one of the key "phone back" locations for the command and control servers of Zeus-serving malware campaigns for Q1, 2010.

Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well. Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web. Ever wondered what targeted attack emails look like? This post shows you. What do the Targeted Attack emails look like? - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab Tags: ( malware phishing ) So, how do the bad guys [...]

Core Security issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations and consumers using Microsoftaposs Virtual PC virtualization software and leave them open to p...

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Some applications with bugs that are not exploitable when running in a not-virtualized operating system are rendered exploitable if running within a guest OS in Virtual PC.

Google decided to appease privacy advocates by making the unique ID feature disappear when the Chrome browser checks for updates for the first time after the installation. The feature is used t...