SEC investigating Mark Hurd’s departure from HP: report
The SEC is examining whether Hurd provided insider information on the 2008 EDS acquisition
Executives at Dell, AMD sold inside information: FBI
Other executives at Flextronics and TSMC allegedly sold iPhone sales forecasts and other data
Former contractor says FBI put back door in OpenBSD
IPsec code was developed 10 years ago, says Gregory Perryrnrn
Student who hacked Bill O’Reilly gets 30 months
The prosecution asked for a tougher sentence after the defendant lied about his synthetic cannabis businessrnrn
Microsoft releases biggest-ever security update
Forty-nine bugs are fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday releasernrn
Facebook’s new groups feature worries some
Some complain there’s no opt-out system; some misunderstand how it worksrnrn
Facebook not finished with Canada’s billion-dollar spammer
A Canadian court has ordered Adam Guerbuez to pay $1 billion, but “the case isn’t done,” Facebook saysrnrn
Canadian Facebook spammer hit with US$873 million fine
A Canadian court has upheld a $873 million ruling against a publicity-hungry Montreal man
‘Here you have’ e-mail worm spreads quickly
The worm links to a malicious screensaver filernrn
Symantec: Most hacking victims blame themselves
Worldwide, 65 per cent of Internet users are victims of online crime
Apple exec stashed $150,000 in shoe boxes
Bail for Paul Devine is set at $600,000 plus any money he has in foreign bank accountsrnrn
With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks
Microsoft as now tracked 25,000 attempts to exploit a flaw in XP’s Help and Support Centerrnrn
iPhone falls in Pwn2Own hacking contest
Hackers bypassed tough security measures introduced in iPhone 2.0; IE, Safari and Firefox hacked too
Security companies warn of uptick in new IE attack
Unpatched flaw affects IE 6 and IE 7
Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts
Some default settings mean third parties can see who Buzz users have been e-mailing