A US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) official urged Congress on Thursday to reauthorize the Safe Web Act, which gives the agency power to combat cross-border online scammers.

Last month Ofcom finally published its draft code for the application of the Digital Economy Act. Now UK ISP Entanet asks, “is the DEA old before its time?”

Tridium’s Niagara Framework enables millions of devices to be controlled centrally via the internet, but it also opens up vulnerabilities to attacks from hackers, according to a story by the Washington Post.

Prompted in part by newspaper stories about the US role in the Stuxnet worm, House lawmakers are considering amending the Espionage Act to enable the prosecution of journalists who disclose sensitive national security information.

Over the last few months researchers at Trend Micro began to investigate a rise in the number of high volume spam runs – and concluded that they weren’t individual spam runs at all, but part of a single, massive spam campaign.

Last year, US mobile carriers responded to 1.3 million requests from law enforcement agencies for consumers’ cell phone records, according to a report released by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.).

MITB malware, personified by Zeus and SpyEye, has long been the bane of desktop online banking. Now Trusteer reports that MITB has migrated to Android; and calls it Man in the Mobile.

Comparing the malware infection of a network to the outbreak of a virus among a human population, Sourcefire’s Alfred Huger stressed that the key to fighting the infection is to find patient zero, the carrier of the virus.

Network security firm Cyberoam took action Monday to fix a flaw in its deep packet inspection (DPI) devices caused by the use of default CA certificates, a vulnerability that was identified by Tor Project researchers on their website.

The website of the DarkComet remote administration tool (RAT), which was used to spy on opposition groups by the Syrian regime, has closed down permanently.