The FBI is attempting to allay concerns about user privacy over its plan to monitor social networking sites by making assurances that all its activity will comply with privacy and civil rights requirements.......

The European Court of Justice has ruled that copyright holders may not force social networking sites to use filters to thwart illegal filesharing.......

US legislators sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking why the company does not require iOS developers to obtain permission from users before apps download users' contacts.......

Republican Senators have expressed concern that the recently introduced Cyber Security Act is moving too quickly, saying that the legislation needs to go through hearings and markup.......

Adobe has released an updated version of Flash that addresses seven vulnerabilities, one of which is currently being actively exploited in the wild.......

Of the 21 vulnerabilities addressed in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for February 2012, the general consensus is that the bulletin addressing flaws in Internet Explorer (IE) is the most critical.......

Information stolen from Stratfor is reportedly being used to send email containing malicious links to government clients of the geopolitical analysis company.......

The UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) has shut down the RnBXclusive.......

The Waledac botnet is back, and it's meaner than ever.......

Emerging news stories indicate that executives at Nortel knew of a breach of their data systems that occurred more than a decade ago, but took no action.......

The Cryptome.......

The National Security Agency (NSA) has developed an approach to application whitelisting that consumes considerably fewer resources to deploy than standard whitelisting techniques.......

A bill scheduled to be introduced in the US Senate on Tuesday, February 14, would grant the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to strengthen security standards for privately owned network that support the country's critical infrastructure.......

Valve says that hackers have likely stolen encrypted payment information, including credit card numbers, belonging to users of the Steam online game distribution platform.......

Ticketmaster has acknowledged that hackers accessed a computer system at its TicketWeb subsidiary.......

The website of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack late last week, and appears to be continuing to experience intermittent connectivity issues as of Monday, February 13.......

Google has temporarily blocked the use of pre-paid cards through Google Wallet while it addresses a pair of flaws that could be exploited to steal funds from users' accounts.......

Microsoft's online store that serves customers in India has fallen prey to hackers.......

Mozilla has pushed out a fix for a critical flaw in Firefox 10, just a week after the newest version of the browser was released.......