May, 2013:

• Privacy-bolstering "Apps Act" introduced in House
• Microsoft readies permanent fix for Internet Explorer bug used in energy attacks
• Weakness in Adobe ColdFusion allowed court hackers access to 160K SSNs
• Feds: $45M drained from bank accounts in international cyber heist
• Hackers raid Washington state court system to steal 160,000 SSNs, 1M driver's license numbers
• Adobe ColdFusion exploit spreading
• Hackers hit domain registrar, access credit card data and passwords
• Microsoft offers temporary fix for live Internet Explorer exploit
• Another Subway hacker pleads guilty
• Curtis Levinson, United States cyber defense advisor, NATO
• Derrick Webber, digital forensics team lead, CGI Information Systems & Management Consultants Inc.
• Scott Wright, security coach and consultant
• OpUSA hacktivist campaign failed to produce much mayhem
• Senators introduce bill that would flag countries, products that benefit from espionage
• Convenience store operator discloses payment card breach
• Personal California birth records found in "unsecure" location
• SpyEye trojan developer and marketer extradited to U.S. to face charges
• Pentagon clears new versions of Samsung, BlackBerry for mobile use
• Stats confirm that trojans spreading, malware being built at record rates
• $20m to fund cyber strategies
• Report due on business risks from cyber crime
• Canadian government gets serious about storage devices
• Canadians savvy on privacy
• McAfee acquires Stonesoft for next-generation firewall technology
• U.S. Department of Labor website was serving zero-day Internet Explorer 8 exploit
• Medical identity theft to be explored at FTC hearing
• Follow me on this, your security team includes non-security people
• Adobe confirms PDF tracking issue, plans to ship fix soon
• Video: The continued rise of DDoS
• U.S. Department of Labor web page serves watering hole attack
• Websites gradually shedding vulnerabilities, though most still contain a serious one
• Company that manages users' online reputation hit by breach
• Report: Army database housing sensitive data on major U.S. dams breached
• Specialized IT project managers are in demand
• Digital forensic tools mature
• Of photographs and misogyny
• Company news: A new CTO at Easy Solutions and Tufin Technologies' new hire
• Me and my job: Marty Edwards, ICS-CERT
• 2 minutes on: The rule of war
• Threat of the month: pdf.exe.zip files
• Debate: Is advanced malware no longer a problem when administrator rights are removed?
• News briefs: Malware cripples South Korea, largest DDos ever, and more
• Trained pros should lead discovery
• Executive order can provide boost
• Behind the scenes: Privacy and data-mining
• The great divide: Reforming the CFAA
• Money talks, but at what cost?