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Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people's pages.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack of spam- or URL- filtering, according to Sophos.

Originally posted at News - Apple

Proposal for a global "cyberpeace" treaty has met "a lot of resistance" from industrialized nations, says head of U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union.

Facebook users who log in from multiple devices will soon have a way to make sure they are only logged in on the computer they are currently using.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security's ranking of decade's top Net swindles.

India plans to ask the three companies to set up local servers in the country so that security agencies can monitor customer communications.

New subscribers are asked for identification and existing subscribers are being encouraged to register their IDs with their numbers in what the Chinese government calls a crackdown on spam and fraud.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Researchers claim to have cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak highly sensitive communications by banks and defense agencies.

After dropping a rape case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange last month, Sweden is reopening it for further investigation, according to reports.

Efforts to make autos safer and more energy efficient with embedded computers and wireless technologies are also increasing security risks, experts say.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

India is poised to send notices to Google and Skype about the government's inability to monitor e-mail and conversations.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Cogent, which sells biometric ID systems to governments, law enforcement, and businesses, will be swallowed up by the massive conglomerate.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Indian officials say they will not ban BlackBerry services while they evaluate solutions that would allow them to satisfy security requirements.

Originally posted at Signal Strength

Spam message, which Facebook says it's looking into, is similar to ones used on Twitter earlier this year.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

RIM offers to create industry forum to discuss ways in which India can access BlackBerry information while still preserving corporate security.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Breach in 2008 was wake-up call for Defense Department to create new cybersecurity strategy, says U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Using Internet access terminals at an airport might put you at risk of losing personal information.

The Rustock botnet is shrinking in size but its spam attacks are increasing in scale and intensity, security vendor Symantec said.

A flaw in the way Windows handles dynamic-link library and related files likely affects hundreds of applications and has already been used in malicious attacks in the wild.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Apple has released a security update for OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.5 machines, which addresses a number of security holes for both the client and server versions of these OS X releases. For the client version, the update fixes several problems that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Originally posted at MacFixIt