Robert McMillan

Defcon attendee shipped her wallet from Boston and flew to Vegas with no ID

Seven months after the Beacon fiasco, the popular social networking site has botched its efforts to protect sensitive personal data. A Sophos techie discovered the error while looking at Facebook

Arrested for allegedly locking up San Francisco's network, network administrator Terry Childs still refuses to provide the password

The software updates address a total of nine security problems identified in SQL Server, Exchange and Windows. The DNS bug can re-direct Web surfers to malicious sites.

Gotuit Media complains Silverlight infringes on three patents because it gives users a means to enhance video with metadata tags to search and navigate videos. It also accuses Microsoft of infringing on its patents with its upcoming on-demand video coverage of the Beijing Olympics.

Malware writers have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers by waiting for system administrators to log onto infected PCs and then using a Microsoft administration tool to spread their malicious software throughout the network

Two months after their Web site was hacked, the organizers of Barack Obama's presidential campaign are looking for a network security expert to help lock down their Web site. "Obama for America is looking for a network security expert who wants to play a key role in a historic political campaign," reads the ad, posted to the Barackobama.com Web site.n

The company is sensitive about security after a massive data theft exposed customers' credit and debit information last year. Posters to security Web sites sympathize with the staffer, says the CEO of Sectheory.com