Wadelac Worm Spreading Fourth of July Malware

The Wadelac worm is spreading across the web, sent out by a botnet of infected PCs to pwn your system. Don't become a statistic. If you get an email urging you to watch a Fourth of July video, don't click the link....

Verified Identity Pass: Clear Data Handling Still a Mystery

Verified Identity Pass, which went out of business last week, still has the personal data of all of its customers. Now, the TSA wants to know exactly what is happening to all that data: is it getting deleted? Stored somehow in case the Clear system is acquired by another...

U.S. can't sway Canada on Afghan pullout: Cannon

Canada's foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon had stated that Canada will not extend its stay in Afghanistan beyond 2011. "Let me be perfectly clear: Canada is abiding by the motion that was adopted in our...

Sri Lankan military maintains fishing restrictions in the north

The Colombo media reported that Sri Lankan government had removed the wartime fishing restrictions. This had come after a fishermen's meeting organized as part of the government's campaign to boost its image.  This meeting was attended by several government officials,...

Twitter Invite Email Worm: Invitation Card.zip

If you get an email that claims to be a Twitter invite, and comes with an attachment called Invitation Card.zip (or anything similar), please, oh please do not open the attachment. It's a worm. Don't get pwned....

Abandon ID cards

"The Identity Cards Act was introduced during the period of global insecurity following 9/11 – and during what some would say was the paranoia of the era of President Bush and his vice-president Dick Cheney. The rule of law in the US was under constant threat, the Patriot...

Digital Britain Report: Broadband Roadmap Made Public

Introduced to Parliament earlier this year, the UK's Digital Britain Report has been made public. Two elements that are making headlines -- and raising hackles-- today are the proposed breakup of the BBC license-fee monopoly and the further empowerment of Ofcom to enforce...

Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, Holocaust Museum guard, dies

Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard who was shot at the Holocaust Memorial Museum this morning has died of his injuries in hospital.  He was 39 years old. It is believed he was shot by James...

IATA Forecasts US$9 Billion Global Aviation Industry Losses

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has forecast the global aviation industry will face US$9 billion losses this year. Its director-general and ceo Giovanni Bisignani said airlines are flying into...

China to Back North Korea Sanctions

China is believed to be on board with U.S.'s attempt to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear-bomb test and missile launches."“I believe China is on board, together with the major countries of...

Security Council on Sri Lanka 'war crimes' and detained doctors

UN Security Council was unable to have a hearing on Sri Lanka as China and Russia with their veto power prevented them. Therefore, the UN Security Council was only able to hold just briefing in the basement. "As...

UK Police Drowns Itself in Surveillance Data

In a widely-predicted development, the UK police has found itself drowning in surveillance data from its 4 million CCTV cameras. CCTV cameras are ubiquitous in British public life, and all that information has...

Heads Up, Tea Party Patriots! - Live Free or Die!

" Mired in red tape, the 4th Annual New Hampshire Live Free or Die Rally will be the testing ground on whether July 4th Tea Parties will be squashed throughout the United States of America. Suppressing dissent...

Security slipping in Iraq

Jack Dolan: Broken deals and repression of Sunni militias may be at root of new violence in Iraq

Websites 'keeping deleted photos'

Another timely reminder that we should all keep in mind: if you put something on the web, particularly on a social network site, be prepared for it to be found by anyone at any time. Privacy settings be damned. "User photographs can still be found on many social networking...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from