July, 2009:

• New Firefox URL bug
• NASA hacker loses another appeal, few options remain
• Researchers simulate a botnet of 1 million zombies
• Black Hat: Breaking SSL network transactions
• Black Hat: Hackers crack smart parking meter hole
• Adobe updates Flash Player for 10 vulnerabilities
• McAfee to acquire MX Logic
• Black Hat: SMS bug can disable iPhone usage
• Black Hat: Clampi banking trojan spreading rapidly
• SC Magazine wins 7 ASBPE Awards
• Red Flags delay
• Black Hat: Less gov't involvement would be a good thing
• Black Hat: Vulnerability mitigation is working, sort of
• New BIND 9 DNS flaw is worse than Kaminsky's
• Black Hat: Organizations, security teams must share risk
• Search partners
• First lady's safe house location leaked on P2P
• Emergency patches issued for IE and Visual Studio
• Browser SSL warnings shown to be ineffective
• Sophos - Top tips to keep data under your control
• IBM buys source-code security firm Ounce Labs
• A rise in cybercrime hits SMBs
• Cisco patches its WLCs
• Strained budgets cause severe security cutbacks
• Network Solutions was PCI compliant before breach
• Microsoft set to deliver two emergency updates Tuesday
• Malware served up thanks to solar eclipse
• Forrester: The good and bad of security technologies
• Leahy, for third time, submits federal data security law
• The convergence of eDiscovery and eCompliance
• SC Magazine wins seven ASBPE Awards
• Taming Compliance: One for all, and all for one!
• Major spam campaign abusing Yahoo Groups
• Malware pace quickens dramatically
• July 20, 2009: Adobe's latest vulnerabilities
• Patient data check-up: First Medical Management and Fortinet
• Adobe's latest zero-day being exploited in the wild
• Protect yourself from business partners
• Lack of cyber talent threatens national security
• Health care organizations unprepared for digital transition
• Potential Adobe zero-days
• Firefox 3.0 security patch
• Every 3.6 seconds a website is infected
• How to choose a QIRA
• Web browser flaw enables attacks against EV SSL
• Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO, WhiteHat Security
• Companies offer to pay breach fines
• Industry group releases software integrity framework
• Fake Erin Andrews clip
• Getting down with EPHI: The Security Rule 101
• Report finds OMB must have bigger role in agency infosec
• United States is world's No. 1 spam sender
• Mozilla denies reports of new Firefox exploit
• Scott Swartz, energy infrastructure and cyber security adviser, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• July 13, 2009: The DDoS attacks
• "Harry Potter" malware hits
• Hacker breaches San Diego hospital patient records
• PCI clarifies procedures to secure Wi-Fi
• Microsoft sues to stop Windows Live Messenger spam
• Firefox releases update to fix severe vulnerability
• Web-based threats: More prevalent, stealthy and changing constantly
• Cybercriminals modernize, but stick to vintage exploits
• Twitter hack spurs cloud computing security debate
• One in six reply to spam
• The payment industry must reinvent itself
• New rogue AV quashed
• Miami inside hacker sentenced to one year
• IT admin sentenced
• Intellectual property belonging to Twitter exposed in hack
• Report: Data attacks more frequent than CEOs think
• Oracle issues security patches in seven product lines
• Security bug found in latest Firefox version
• New Salt Lake City school district loses flash drive
• Microsoft distributes six patches for nine vulnerabilities
• Realtor charges dropped
• Koobface hits Twitter
• Investigation of government DDoS attacks deepens
• Gmail verifies senders
• Richard Marshall, senior information assurance representative, Office of Legislative Affairs, National Security Agency
• AT&T temp indicted in ID theft scheme
• Cyber retaliation debate: Is North Korea guilty of DDoS?
• Another ActiveX zero-day bug from Microsoft
• Study finds more breaches
• Robert Martin, principal engineer, MITRE Corporation
• July 6, 2009: Microsoft zero day
• Social network site sued for spamming
• Cyberattacks: A call for collaborative action
• Microsoft reveals additional details on ActiveX flaw
• Spam trends highlighting holiday, tragedy themes
• Passport snoop sentenced
• WordPress patched
• Symantec wins piracy cases
• IBM develops selective data hiding on the fly
• MasterCard will not permit automated encryption upgrade
• DirectShow, ActiveX 0-days among planned Microsoft fixes
• Waledac bot profligacy
• Dov Yoran, partner, co-founder, MetroSITE Group
• Safari 4.0.2 released
• Mass attacks on government, financial sites continue
• Security redesign coming in Google Chrome OS
• Mac trojan circulating
• Milw0rm closes shop
• Spammers exploiting trust in shortened URLs
• Cybercrime and collaboration: Security considerations for today's complex environment
• Howard Cox, assistant deputy chief, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, U.S. DoJ
• FTC website experiencing "technical problems"
• SecureWorks-VeriSign deal
• Researchers guess SSNs
• Programmer charged with stealing code freed on bail
• FBI trying new ways to stem cybercrime tide
• Anish Bhimani, managing director of risk & security management, JP Morgan Chase
• Koobface variants explode
• Firewall Audit Webcast: Rule Your Firewalls with Automated Firewall Auditing
• Source of Adobe zero-day bug patched
• Report: NSA will monitor government networks
• Microsoft warns of Video ActiveX control flaw
• The changing role of log management
• Company laptop mysteriously turns up at repair shop
• Cloud gives federation life again
• Letters
• Engage all to protect data
• Defining the 21st Century CIO
• Fed cyber review revealed, action awaited
• Threat of the Month: Inf/Autorun
• Evaluating the staff's secure behavior
• Pros and cons of user-driven content
• Practical forensics
• Data breach defense: Response ability
• SC World Congress: Innovative thinking
• Across the university: University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston and Novell
• Security budget: Dollars and sense
• Ron Baklarz, CISO, Amtrak
• Jerry Archer, SVP and CSO, Sallie Mae
• Kimberly Peretti, senior counsel, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice
• William Kovacic, commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• June 29, 2009: Online brand abuse
• Fourth of July spam
• "Fourth of July" hacker jailed after hospital hack
• iPhone hacker reveals SMS vulnerability
• Time to look inward instead of threatening legal action
• Spam increased in Q2, despite 3FN takedown
• Hot or not: SCAP is heating up
• Rolling Stone magazine hacker arrested
• Malicious server used to propagate Zbot shut down
• Bob Carr, chairman and CEO, Heartland Payment Systems
• Juniper pulls researcher's Black Hat ATM talk