Security

FAA mandates major aircraft ‘Black Box’ upgrade

US completes advanced tsunami warning network

FTC puts final nail in spyware operation

Preventing Management Frameworkitis

Which application security approach really does the trick?

Payment-industry security rules push software code review or Web application firewall

Google researchers study the delivery of malware

* Even innocent Web surfing can be hazardous these days

Is the metadirectory dead?

* Have metadirectories lost their appeal?

Four critical patches coming from Microsoft

* Patches from Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, others * From SMTP to HTTP to FTP * Behavior-based malware detection software on the way, and other interesting reading

Rise in Gmail spam indicates more solved CAPTCHAs

Bogus security promises and how to detect them

Data leakage, smartphone malware, hotspot threats are discussed by security analyst Nick Selby in a Network World chat.