The European Commission has given up on plans to fully harmonise consumer protection law in Europe in a bid to win support for a watered-down Consumer Rights Directive from Members of the European Parliament (MEP).

Phony email message claims Sony laptop is on the way. Security researchers at SophosLabs have discovered yet another new phishing campaign aimed at users ofAmazon.com. A fraudulentAmazon.com email message claims a Sony VAIO A1133651A laptop has been ordered and is being shipped. The email includes an attached file that supposedly contains the tracking information [...]

Some presents just aren't the kind you want. You buy a new product get it home only to find it's busted. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. found that out the hard way recently after they purchased National City Bank. Turns out that prior to the acquisition there was a data breach affecting customers. Much like [...]

An outdated Java runtime environment leaves security holes in the backup software

Interesting research: Psychologist Jeremy Ginges and his colleagues identified this backfire effect in studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2007. They interviewed both Israelis and Palestinians who possessed sacred values toward key issues such as ownership over disputed territories like the West Bank or the right of Palestinian refugees to return to villages they were forced to leave—these people viewed...

A hacker has written exploit code which can tunnel a shell connection through firewalls via DNS

I used a perl script to convert syslog Symantec A/V logs to CSV files and loaded the data into Advizor Analyst. This type of graph shows interesting re-infection patterns for individual hosts (horizontal lines), signature updates following malware blooms (vertical patterns with the same colors) as well as others.

SANS: Dangers of copypaste

The Register: One in four UK schoolkids admits hacking One in four UK youngsters have tried hacking into Facebook or webmail accounts, according to a new survey

Wired: Judge Approves $9.5 Million Facebook Beacon Accord