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The Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG) will enable federal agencies to focus their security expenditures on fixing the vulnerabilities that are most frequently exploited, before addressing those that are more hypothetical, and to enable agency inspectors general to verify that the most important problems are fixed first.......

NASA Chief Information Officer Jonathan Pettus last week issued a memo clarifying agency policy on the use of removable media.......

An in-depth look at cyber attacks directed at NASA finds that the agency has been the target of computer network intrusions for at least a decade.......

Symantec's "Report on Underground Economy" says that some cyber criminals are breaking into companies' computer systems for one very specific reason: to check if stolen credit card information is valid.......

The case against Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero has finally come to a close.......

Verizon Wireless has fired an unspecified number of employees for looking at President-elect Barack Obama's cell phone records.......

Last week, the US District court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Facebook in a spam case, saying that Adam Guerbuez and his company Atlantic Blue Capital were guilty of violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.......

A buffer overflow flaw in the Windows Vista TCP/IP Stack could be exploited to hide rootkits on vulnerable computers or cause denial-of-service conditions.......

Microsoft said that the November version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool cleaned phony security software from almost one million computers in just nine days.......

Apple has released an update for the iPhone and the iPod touch.......

IT staff are beginning to restore access to computer systems at three London hospitals that were hit with a malware attack last week.......

To halt the spread of a worm through US Department of Defense computer systems, the commander of US Strategic Command has banned the use of all removable data storage devices, including USB drives, CDs and flash media cards.......

The shutdown last week of web hosting company McColo resulted in the disabling of an estimated 500,000 PCs infected with bot malware.......

A survey of 1,000 healthcare workers in the UK and the US found that more than one-third store sensitive patient data on portable data storage devices, including laptop computers, Blackberrys and USB sticks.......

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has denied a complaint filed by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) asking that CRTC stop Bell Canada from throttling certain types of Internet traffic.......

A teenage hacker from Massachusetts, who uses the online name "Dshocker," has pleaded guilty to charges of computer intrusion, interstate threats and wire fraud.......

A Kentucky college student has been charged with identity theft and unlawful access to a computer for allegedly breaking into other students' email accounts at the University of the Cumberlands and using the access and information to blackmail them.......

The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) has extended the compliance deadline for regulations that require companies doing business with Massachusetts residents to use encryption and other strong data security measures to protect residents' personal information.......

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) wants the authority to fine companies up to 10 percent of their revenue for violations of the Data Protection Act, which would match the maximum penalty that can be imposed by the Financial Services Authority on companies that do not comply with financial regulations.......