Security

Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox

Joins Google, Adobe in auto-update movement to take patching out of users' hands

Microsoft to thank Google researcher for privately reporting Windows bugs

Tavis Ormandy, who kicked off bug reporting debate, to get credit for reporting four flaws

Heroix, Nimsoft roll out cloud management features

* Tools give IT the ability to monitor private and public cloud services and other infrastructure from a single console

Cisco firewalls hit again by DoS condition

Company issues advisories on switch, router module and ASA appliance

NASA goes after lighting storms on Earth

NASA set to launch large-scale storm research project

Stuxnet industrial worm was written over a year ago

The first confirmed attacks were in January 2010, Symantec says

Indonesia presses RIM over its BlackBerry service

The country wants RIM to put a server in the country so it can verify that data is secure

Fighting today’s malware

Elcomsoft releases iPhone 4 password cracker

Apple changed the iPhone 4 software in a way that makes it easier to recover the plain-text password used to encrypt data

Germans sound iPhone attack alarm as Apple claims fix ready

But no word on when Apple will plug the jailbreak exploit holes