A Russian man who is believed to be the operator of the Mega-D botnet, one of the largest spam senders in the world, has been arrested and is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in federal court.

Adobe and Google have partnered to allow Flash to run with sandboxing technology in the Chrome browser, the two companies announced Wednesday. "This first iteration of Chrome's Flash Player sandbox for all [supported] Windows platforms uses a modified version of Chrome's existing sandbox technology that protects certain sensitive resources from being accessed by malicious code, while allowing applications to use less sensitive ones," read a post on The Chromium Blog. The release initially is available to Chrome developer channel users. In November, Adobe released its latest Reader version, X, which includes sandboxing that forces operations that display PDF files to the user to be run inside a confined environment. - DK

Lawyers, doctors and accountants may avoid having to comply with the Federal Trade Commission's new identity theft rule.

The federal government is moving quickly to deploy new security measures in light of the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents by whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is urging companies to develop a "do not track" mechanism so consumers can choose whether to allow the collection of data regarding online searching and browsing activities.

Was the delay of the Stuxnet worm cleanup the true motive behind the assassination of Iranian cyberwarfare and nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari? Was Wikileaks content responsible for the timing of the attack? Analysis follows.