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On October 14, the US Federal Trade Commission, with help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and New Zealand police, announced that it had shut down a vast international spam network known as HerbalKing.

Some security patches take time.

Attackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in Adobe System's popular Flash Player, security researchers warned Tuesday.

Remaining platform and technology agnostic in Information Security is a progressively more difficult task as people and companies develop the skills and abilities to form professional fee-based relationships with the vendors that they previously reported about.

As I recall, November 2, 1988, started as an ordinary day at Goddard Space Flight Center where I was working in the data communications branch. By the end of the day ... well, actually, that day never ended. We just kept fighting to bring our servers and networks back to life. Our SunOS and VAX/BSD systems, which were connected to the Internet, had slowed to a stop.

News continues to worsen for business travelers carrying sensitive information. In a troubling ruling by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can continue its practice of warrantless searches through computer data held by US citizens and foreigners alike. With no cause or suspicion, the CBP may inspect, copy or seize data devices carried by anyone returning to the US. I'm not convinced that passive compliance is the best response to this situation.

Security researchers are free to investigate Microsoft's online services for security bugs, without fear of prosecution - as long as they submit the bugs they find "responsibly" to Microsoft, the company said this week.

Two months after Adobe Systems patched a serious flaw in its Flash development software, there are still hundreds of thousands of Web pages serving up buggy Shockwave Flash (.swf) files that could be exploited by hackers, according to a Google researcher.

Security researchers have uncovered "critical" security flaws in a version of the Linux kernel used by a large number of popular distributions.

Just one day after hackers showed how to exploit a number of flaws in the ActiveX software used by Internet Explorer, Symantec has spotted online criminals using one of the attacks.

So, just to be clear. We're all thieves here, right?