Robert McMillan

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Security company launches eBay for bugs

A company in Switzerland is offering software vulnerabilities for sale online to qualified buyers. Security experts cautioned this could become an e-bay for flaws.

Cyber attack prompts US to send team to Estonia

A cyber attack two months ago that targeted much of Estonia's online infrastructure has resulted in the U.S. government sending cyber investigators to the Baltic state to assist them in understanding what went wrong.

Homeland Security to host security forum in August

The U.S. Department of Homeland security will host a invite-only conference two months from now that will bring together security experts from law enforcement, Internet service providers, and the technology industry

IIS twice as likely malware host, according to Google research

Web sites running Microsoft Corp.’s Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as other Web sites, according to research...

Security doesn’t mean locking down the enterprise PC, says Google CIO

Google has generally been quiet when it comes to talking about security and it has kept the team that keeps Google's Web sites secure under wraps. Not so anymore

Network trouble made nuke plant shut down

Water pumps need firewalls too.That

U.S. govt. plan to combat ID theft being unveiled today

The U.S. federal government will release, on Monday, its plan to combat identity theft in that country. After nearly a year's work, the President's Identity Theft Task Force will release its findings at a press event in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's offices, the FTC said in a media alert.

China

The amount of spam pumping out of China dropped precipitously in the first three months of 2007, security vendor Sophos PLC reported Wednesday

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