Adobe and Sun have released patches for several critical
vulnerabilities that affect their respective Flash Player and Java
Runtime Environment. Many of these vulnerabilities can be exploited to
execute arbitrary code on victims' computers just by making them access
a malicious URL using any application that invokes Flash Player or JRE.

Some users of the smashing Yoomba email calling service are accusing the system of spamming their email contact lists by sending out email notifications to their most active 50 contacts.

BitDefender Labs released  a warning today about a new threat called Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A which uses Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to send e-mail spam.

The mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter's saga deepened today with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details -- but publishers warned the details could be fake.

The spammers behind last year’s destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the ‘Storm Worm’ malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.

It happened already! A few days ago I was warning you to Never Share Confidential Data in P2P Networks ! An employee's illegitimate usage of P2P networks leaked personal information on more than 17,000 current and former workers at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

It appears that the root of all evil in TJ MAXX Marshalls security breach was the use of weak encryption (WEP) in  wireless access points. Despite a market capitalization of almost $13bn, the company apparently couldn't afford to secure its Wi-Fi network with anything more robust than the sadly inadequate Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. (The much more secure Wi-Fi Protected Access has become standard on most routers for four years now.)

A database containing the personal and financial details of almost 60 million students had constantly been accessed by some lending companies in a manner that violated federal privacy laws.

For the first time since unveiling the security breach more than two months ago, TJX put a number on how much card data was compromised : 45.7 milions - and it's a number TJX Cos. admits could go still higher.

A security breach in California set hundreds of thousands of Social Security Numbers online for 6 bucks a piece.
From what we know, these records have been available for sale on the World Wide Web since 2004, making this potentially the longest running government breach in California's history.