Security

Drop ‘responsible’ from bug disclosures, Microsoft urges

Proposes name change to eliminate loaded word for bug reporting practice

Microsoft: No money for bugs

Will not follow lead of Mozilla and Google in paying bounties for reported bugs

Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue

Company has added 16 additional steps to weed out hardware issues

Lawmakers hear mixed reviews of Web privacy bill

Witnesses and some lawmakers question the bill's language allowing private privacy lawsuits

Boeing shows off commercial spacecraft

Boeing commercial spacecraft ties into Bigelow’s inflatable space stations too

Unified security

Mozilla patches 16 security bugs in Firefox 3.6

Largest set of fixes since March includes patches for 9 critical flaws

State AGs question Google about Street View Wi-Fi snooping

Connecticut's attorney general says legal action against the company is possible

Microsoft warns of Windows shortcut drive-by attacks

Hackers can exploit new zero-day by luring users to nasty sites

Obama says he can’t intervene in British hacker case

Gary McKinnon is waiting for the UK Home Office to decide whether to block his extradition to the US on medical grounds