According to Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, on January 9, February 21 and March 14 of this year, because of "an outrageous breach of security and privacy", the passport records of Sen. Barack Obama were accessed by three contract workers.

The Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain said a breach of its computer system led to the theft of about 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from its Hannaford and Sweetbay stores and other locations. Local shoppers said they were stunned yesterday by a major supermarket's announcement that 4.2 million customer credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a security breach.

The Department of Homeland Security's second iteration of Cyber Storm is responsible for a massive cyber attack simulation. Through it, and with the help of a congressionally mandated exercise, white hat hackers tested whether  the government and business officials can handle cyberthreats to critical networked services.

According to security firm MessageLabs, the large number of spam coming from Gmail is the result of those spammers who have broken the captcha mechanism deployed by Gmail, mechanism designed to check if a person and not something else is opening an e-mail account.

Internet scammers, crooks and other human-malware should watch out! New Security suite including SPEAR Forensics, Chat Watch SPEAR and Forensic P2P  is announced with much ado by Zemerick Software, Inc. This is investigative software and the law enforcement agencies can have it for free.