Security

Social Milky Way space exploration project cranks up world’s second fastest “supercomputer”

MilkyWay@Home project has thousands of computers looking into space

Black Hat DC 2010: Using the Dark Side for Good

Context for discussions of mandatory certification

New Russian botnet tries to kill rival

Spy Eye steals data and can then 'Kill Zeus'

Chinese artist-dissident lauds Google plan to stop censoring

Ai Weiwei gave Google's plan the most visible support it has received from a Chinese activist

Appeals court to review standards for cellphone data requests by government

Court will decide if prosecutors need to show more than 'reasonable cause'

Identity fraud climbed 12% last year

Total cost of identity fraud reached $54 billion in 2009

Australian parliament Web site attacked

Denial-of-service attack comes after warning from Anonymous

Mozilla retracts Firefox add-on malware claim

False-positive on AV scan incorrectly pegged Sothink add-on as infected

HBGary releases Aurora detection tool

Aurora Inoculation Shot will remove malware that steals corporate data