Information Protection and Security

People often wonder what it takes to shut down a botnet. Here are the key steps, which apply to “traditional” botnets, which don’t rely heavily on peer-to-peer protocols for their command and control (C&C) implementation.
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Cyberbullying can turn cool technology tools into a nightmare for victims-and online bullying may now be considered a criminal offense.
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Unfortunately, many of these sites are more likely to make your data inaccessible than actually delete it. And even if you do manage to delete your files, copies are almost certain to remain in the companies' backup systems.
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Connecticut's attorney general is looking for tougher protection for healthcare providers after records, which could be useful to identity thieves, were lost.
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Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers to third party brokers, the firm has confirmed.

A number of insurance products protect against loss arising from IT-related risks.

The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain's top private hospitals.

European researchers discovered the so-called iPhone/Privacy.A malware, which targets jailbroken iPhones and iTouch handsets, via a wireless network. Jailbroken devices are disabled such that the user can run code or apps on the device that aren't "signed" by Apple.
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Hundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked in recent days by users pointing out what they say is a weakness in how the social-networking site handles the administration of its groups.
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passes two bills that establish federal guidelines for data breach notifications.
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