E-mail snafu exposes names of confidential witnesses
From the how-not-to-keep-a-secret department comes the tale of an official at U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office in Chicago who inadvertently e-mailed a document containing the names of more than 20 confidential witnesses in a federal probe to the media.
Fake CNN malware attack spins Gaza angle
Hackers have launched a large-scale spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications about the Israeli invasion of Gaza, security researchers said Thursday, in a repeat of a massive campaign last summer that also posed as CNN alerts.
Microsoft slates single Windows patch for Tuesday
Microsoft Thursday said it will issue just one security update next week, down dramatically from last month's record-setting eight updates that patched 28 vulnerabilities.
Verizon service steps up analysis of security risks
Verizon Business is boosting the vulnerability-scanning and risk-correlation capabilities in its managed security services lineup.
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