E-Commerce News – Wednesday, April 01, 2009 There are reports that Cox and AT&T (NYSE: T) have begun cooperating with the Recording Industry Association of America’s new antipiracy strategy — first announced in December — of targeting illegal file-sharing activities through Internet service providers instead of through the courts. Once the RIAA identifies someone downloading [...]

The Associated Press April 15, 2009, 7:26PM AUSTIN, Texas — A virus has hit the Texas Department of Public Safety computer system but a spokeswoman said at no time was citizen safety compromised. DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange said in a statement that the virus that hit Wednesday affected internal communications and some external services such [...]

WEBWIRE – Friday, April 03, 2009 Cyberspace 9/11 is here. A trojan worm similar to the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 are causing havoc to companies such as Time Warner Cable, Register.com and UltraDNS owned by Neustar and to millions of their customers throughout the United States and Europe. [...]

Yahoo! News Apr 12, 2009 8:11 am SALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school’s three hospitals. University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal information, was [...]

PCWorld.com Apr 1, 2009 11:32 am The Conficker worm today has begun to phone home for instructions but has done little else. Conficker was programmed to today begin actively visiting 500 out of 50,000 randomly generated web addresses to receive new instructions on how to behave. Conficker has begun to do this, according to security [...]

Teen causes chaos, employed, hacked By John Leyden The self-confessed author of the recent Twitter worm has scored a potentially lucrative job doing security analysis and web development work. Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, a 17 year-old student from Brooklyn, New York, created a worm that exploited cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in a ham-fisted attempt to promote a [...]