Security

Malware popping up on popular sites

* Patches from Mozilla, Debian, Gentoo, others * New Word attacks pose as news about Tibet * Snopes.com stops serving adware, and other interesting reading

Network companies grab up venture capital cash

Aveksa, Cirba, Virtual Iron and Zenoss end January with more money in hand

Large block in 700MHz auction meets reserve price

FTC goes after alleged MySpace hijackers

Cisco veteran launches net management start-up

Former Cisco product manager launches Pari Networks, a network change and configuration management start-up that promises to solve compliance headaches

Spyware forum: Computer users cause major problems

New Skype bug opens users to easy hijack, says researcher

Critical flaws found in MySpace, Facebook ActiveX controls

The future of network security

Plus: 10 questions to ask when determining your future security architecture

Google blog used to spread malware

Latest example of a bogus blog posting used to spread malware.