In letter to Congress, Google defends privacy changes

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• In letter to Congress, Google defends privacy changes
• Coverity and Wind River target development insecurity with new alliance
• Student privacy activists due to meet with Facebook
• Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS rootkit
• Many pcAnywhere systems still sitting ducks
• Cybersecurity Report Stresses Need for Cooperation
• Cybersecurity report: All countries lag behind the bad guys
• Lawmaker pushes consumer notification bill in wake of Carrier IQ concerns
• SOPA, PIPA, Anonymous: Can I have a little hope?
• Feds say Megaupload user content could be deleted this week

In letter to Congress, Google defends privacy changes Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:03 PM PST In a letter sent to eight members of Congress, Google yesterday defended its move to consolidate its privacy policies and users' personal information.

Coverity and Wind River target development insecurity with new alliance Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:50 AM PST Software development testing firm Coverity and embedded and mobile software firm Wind River have integrated Coverity's security development testing platform with Wind River's embedded software system.

Student privacy activists due to meet with Facebook Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:22 AM PST Austrian student activists say they expect to meet Facebook representatives in Vienna next Monday in an attempt to resolve their disagreements over the social-networking site's privacy policies.

Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS rootkit Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:32 AM PST Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web security firm Websense.

Many pcAnywhere systems still sitting ducks Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:15 AM PST Symantec warns that its product should not be connected directly to the Internet, yet an estimated 140,000 computers are configured to allow direct external access

Cybersecurity Report Stresses Need for Cooperation Posted: 30 Jan 2012 01:06 AM PST A lack of honest information-sharing between public and private sectors and among nations hampers cyber defenses, warns a new report by McAfee and the Brussels-based Security and Defense Agenda.

Cybersecurity report: All countries lag behind the bad guys Posted: 30 Jan 2012 12:24 AM PST The U.S. and U.K. are relatively well prepared for cyberattacks, compared to many other developed nations, but everyone has more work to do, according to a new cybersecurity study from McAfee and Security & Defence Agenda (SDA).

Lawmaker pushes consumer notification bill in wake of Carrier IQ concerns Posted: 29 Jan 2012 11:12 PM PST U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has proposed a bill that would require all phone companies to notify consumers of any user tracking and monitoring software in their cell phones.

SOPA, PIPA, Anonymous: Can I have a little hope? Posted: 29 Jan 2012 11:02 PM PST I think when we look back at this January, we may view it as a turning point in how businesses protect their intellectual property (IP). Several key things happened:

Feds say Megaupload user content could be deleted this week Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:16 PM PST Federal prosecutors say that two companies hosting Megaupload's servers in the U.S. could begin deleting all user content on them as early as Thursday.

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