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.

A professor in China has developed a new cryptosystem, called evolutionary cryptography, that draws on evolution theory in biology to construct more secure encryption.

AlienVault, a San Mateo, Calif.-based security information and event management (SIEM) provider, has received $22.4 million in funding from a venture capital group led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Sigma.

The high tech theft of motor vehicles is likely to rise as their computer content increases. In an early case, Alan Watkins was last week jailed for car theft that involved hacking, GPS tracking and motor car identity theft.