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Microsoft's Kelihos kingpin suspect: It wasn't me Sabelnikov denies botnet herder allegation The Russian man named by Microsoft as the mastermind behind the Kelihos botnet has stepped forward to plead his innocence.… 4 Sun journos, 1 cop bailed in police bung probe Cuffed on suspicion of corruption after tip-off from News Corp Police officers investigating allegations of illegal payments to cops as part of a larger probe of News International arrested four journalists on Saturday. All four were either current or former hacks at Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun. Police also arrested a Metropolitan police service officer at the weekend.… Google spews out 'privacy' email to Sky punters too Not just Virgin Media customers fuming over web giant's intrusion Sky users have joined Virgin Media subscribers in receiving emails directly from Google about its new privacy policy.… Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades 'Very bright kids' too bright for their own good Three high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to their classmates.… Facebook flings clickjack spam lawsuit at ad-slingers Social network teams up with Washington State to hound marketing firm Facebook and US state of Washington have filed lawsuits against marketing firm Adscend Media over alleged clickjacking and spam practices, as the social networking giant finally gets tough with scammers operating on the site.… US lawmakers question Google over privacy policy Politicos ask if Chocolate Factory's new rules violate an FTC agreement Google is insisting that its new privacy policy will still give its users control, after criticism in a letter from US members of Congress.… Judges set timetable for McKinnon case resolution Pentagon hacking suspect has been waiting for 10 YEARS... Senior judges have set a timetable to speed up resolution in the long-running Gary McKinnon extradition case, effectively setting a deadline for the Home Office to respond to evidence that McKinnon is too infirm to withstand the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment over alleged Pentagon hacking offences.… Microsoft exec says Safe Harbor framework is 'alive and well' Privacy critic: 'It's dead. We just forgot to bury it' CPDP Privacy advocates have expressed concern about Brussels' Commissioner Viviane Reding's decision to leave in place the Safe Harbour framework used by some companies to transfer data from Europe to the US.… Google emails Virgin Media subscribers ... about privacy Infuriated customers want to know how the Goog got their addresses Fuming Virgin Media customers have taken to the telco's forum to complain that their email addresses have been used by Google, instead of being kept private.… Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike Report: Conficker also still causing mayhem Fake anti-virus scams are on the wane but drive-by-download threats have rocketed over the past year thanks to the hugely popular Blackhole crimeware kit, while Conficker remains prolific some three years after its release, according to Sophos.… Symantec's profits up in calm third quarter Growth in security and compliance keeps ship steady CEO Enrique Salem stands crisp and smart on the poop deck of the good ship Symantec, looking back at a straight course and ahead to more growth. It's a pretty unexciting third quarter story really.… Why O2 shared your mobile number with the world And why they'll probably do similar again O2 has been sharing customers' phone numbers with every website they visited, but O2 isn't the only offender - it's just the one that slipped up and got caught.… pcAnywhere let anyone anywhere inject code into PCs Symantec plugs holes in desktop remote-control tool Symantec is urging users to patch pcAnywhere, its remote control application, following the discovery of a brace of serious security flaws.… OpIreland hackers spank gov sites as 'Irish SOPA' nears Angry hacktivists land on Irish shores Anonymous took out several key Irish government websites last night and promised more disruption to come in retaliation for new SOPA-like legislation which it claimed would make it easier for copyright-holders to block access to file sharing and other sites in the country.… Pwn2Own 2012 touts bigger prizes, drops mobile hacks Make $60,000 with a few carefully injected bytes Organisers of security conference CanSecWest have changed the rules for the next outing of its Pwn2Own computer hacking contest.… O2 3G stops giving punters' mobile numbers to websites HTTP header blooper stamped out within hours after outcry After a flurry of complaints, O2 engineers appear to have shut off the proxy server quirk that leaked to websites the phone numbers of punters browsing the net on 3G connections.… Reding's 'right to be forgotten' bill polarises Euro biz world Rewriting data protection law in internet age EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding will imminently table a draft bill that will – if passed in Parliament – require internet firms to be upfront about the user data they hold.… Super-powered 'frankenmalware' strains detected in the wild Virus-worm crossbreeds will trash systems faster than ever before Viruses are accidentally infecting worms on victims’ computers, creating super-powered strains of hybrid software nasties.… Judges probe minister's role in McKinnon extradition saga Pentagon hacker's medical files ignored The long-running case of Gary McKinnon returns to court on Friday.… Nokia busted for dodgy SMS to customers Spam Act breach draws $AU55k wrist-slap Nokia has fallen foul of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, incurring a $AU55,000 fine following consumer complaints over its SMS marketing practices.… US govt security advice site trashed by hackers Hacktivist campaign against SOPA, PIPA and ACTA continues Anonymous and LulzSec members have hacked US government security web site OnGuard Online and defaced it, forcing it offline, in retaliation for the recent MegaUpload takedown and the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the groups have announced.… Councils tout £1.2bn for IT whizkid to grab their backend Outsourced IT includes crim record checks and payroll A one-billion-pound contract is up for grabs as three London councils hunt for IT hotshots to streamline their back-office systems - handling everything from criminal record checks and financial accounts to the payroll and psychometric testing.… Campaign launched to teach consumers about ad-stalking Ad body produces guide to online behavioural advertising An organisation representing US marketing bodies has launched a new advertising campaign to raise consumer awareness of online behavioural advertising (OBA).… US Senator's Twitter account back after hack Anti-SOPA activists play 'occupy @ChuckGrassley' The office of US Senator Chuck Grassley has confirmed that his Twitter account was taken over and used to launch anti-SOPA messages on Monday, US time.… Bletchley Park flogs Alan Turing first day covers Enigma codebreaker puts his stamp on 2012 Computing pioneer and Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing is to be commemorated next month in a series of limited edition first day covers for stamps designed to celebrate the centenary of his birth and help raise some more funds for the renovation of Bletchley Park.… Sourcefire jumps into anti-malware market Cyber-outbreak defence tech to shore up big biz Sourcefire, the security biz behind the commercial versions of the open-source Snort intrusion-detection software, is bowling itself at enterprises and touting tech designed to quickly detect and block malware outbreaks.… Android hackers mull rooted mobe app marketplace As if things weren't complicated enough Android hackers are discussing the creation of a specialist app store, listing software for rooted handsets and other things that even Google won't allow.… iPad 2, iPhone 4S finally jail-broken Tut, what took you so long? The Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have finally fallen to jail-breakers.… ITV wrist-slapped for showing video game as IRA attack Not fined for YouTube rip and bungled riot coverage ITV has escaped a fine for using video game footage to illustrate IRA activities, and portraying the wrong riot, but will tighten up procedures to stop it happening again.… SharePoint gods peek into colleagues' info – poll Security is for other people SharePoint admins are abusing their privileged status to sneak a peak at classified documents according to a poll that shows consistent abuse of security in Microsoft's business collaboration server.… DreamHost nightmare attack sparks passwords reset Hackers inappropriately touched customer database US-based hosting firm DreamHost is advising customers to change their passwords following a database breach.… 'Hannibal' leaks '100,000 Facebook logins' Then demands Middle East cyber-war truce The tit for tat between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel hackers escalated at the weekend after a hacker called Hannibal claimed to have leaked the Facebook login details of "100,000 Arabs".… Europe exposes its stiff data protection law this week Time for Facebook, Google et al to lobby hard Stringent proposals for the revision of Europe's outdated 1995 data protection law are to be revealed by officials this coming Wednesday.… Romanian who hacked NASA spared cooler stint If you can't do the time, well, do the crime anyway A Romanian hacker who admitted breaking into NASA's network has avoided jail, receiving a three-year suspended prison sentence instead.… Mozilla pushes browser-based alternative to passwords Give us your keys to look after, we're lovely Mozilla is promoting a browser-based alternative to usernames and passwords for website logins.… Feds cuff coder accused of US bank source code swipe Alleged thief 'nicked $9.5m software to train his students' A computer programmer has been charged with stealing source code worth $9.5m from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to the FBI and prosecutors.… Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit Ironic server-side flaw exploited, patch promised McAfee is promising to patch a vulnerability in its hosted anti-malware service after it found a flaw that allowed systems where the product was installed to be turned into potential spam-relay nodes.… Japanese cops cuff six smut-scam ransomware suspects Victims forced to pay stiff charges Japanese police have arrested six suspected cyber-crooks over a one-click billing fraud scam that allegedly targeted sweaty smut surfers.… Facebook, experts spar over Ramnit worm contagion Security boss says stalking site is free of bank account-raiding malware Facebook has downplayed the significance of Ramnit, a recently discovered worm that attempts to steal login credentials for the social networking site.… Careless care charity loses unencrypted patient data stick Whoops, won't happen again A care provider with offices in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland has committed to improving its data protection standards after losing a memory stick containing unencrypted patient data.… Alleged Muscovite cybercrime daddy hauled in to face US court Feds allege père et fils duo scooped $100ks using malware A suspected Russian cyber-crook has arrived in the US to face charges of security fraud, computer hacking and ID theft following his deportation from Switzerland.… Five Koobface botnet suspects named by New York Times Trojan coins millions for its masters, say researchers Five suspected masterminds behind the infamous Koobface botnet have been unmasked in a move abetted by Facebook to put the heat on cyber-crimelords.… New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage Victims must pay $25 to get back into stalkerbase A new strain of cybercrime Trojan is targeting Facebook users by taking over their machines and shaking them down for cash.… NSA constructs hardened Android, unleashes it on world Vicious apps squashed by super-spook mobile OS The US Defense Department's The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a security-hardened version of Google's mobile OS, Android.… Japanese boffins fear virus nicked spacecraft blueprints Tokyo, we have a problem Japanese space engineers have admitted one of their computers has been infected by a Trojan that may have leaked sensitive data, including system login information, to hackers.… GAME: Our website wasn't hacked! Leaked account login details are bogus, says chain Video games purveyor GAME says it has not been hacked after reports yesterday claimed that the retail biz had suffered a security breach.… Olympics volunteers urged not to blab online A journo might be reading, fear organisers Volunteers at this year's Olympics should not "get involved in detailed discussion about the games online", according to guildelines issued by organisers, a report says.… Taxman two months late on cyber-crimefighters deadline HMRC still wants our dosh on time though HMRC has missed a key deadline to create teams of cyber crime investigators and launch initiatives to counter the increased threat of web attacks on the authority's systems and customers.… Zappos coughs to HUGE data breach Up to 24 million users zappwn3d Online shoe and apparel outlet Zappos.com has apologised over a massive data breach that exposed the personal details of millions.… US military access cards cracked by Chinese hackers Access to buildings and intranets harvested by super-spy Trojan A new strain of the Sykipot Trojan is been used to compromise the Department of Defense-sanctioned smart cards used to authorise network and building access at many US government agencies, according to security researchers.…