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The news that federal authorities have indicted the man they claim is responsible for the TJX attack for also allegedly hacking into the networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers grocery chain shows that law enforcement is indeed stepping up its work on cybercrime. But it also provides what is probably the clearest evidence to date that the people executing these attacks are highly competent, organized and motivated.

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A huge number of Web sites are employing a little-known tracking mechanism to gather information on visitors and are failing to disclose the practice in their privacy policies, according to a new paper from a group of university researchers. The technique employs cookies generated by the Adobe Flash software and the cookies often have the same value as HTTP cookies, the researchers report.

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Researchers have identified a new vulnerability in the Linux kernel which could enable an attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable system. The flaw is in all versions of the 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels. The Linux kernel vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that derives from the kernel’s failure to validate a function pointer before dereferencing it. The flaw, discovered by two members of the Google security team, has been fixed by a patch for the Linux kernel that was made available Thursday.

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As smartphones become even smarter, they are going to attract more and more attention from attackers, spammers and others looking to take control of the billions of mobile devices in use today, the head of Google’s Android security team said. In a talk at the USENIX Security symposium Wednesday, Rich Cannings acknowledged the danger that malware and other security threats pose to Android phones as well as other smartphones, Computerworld reports.

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That giant sucking sound you hear is the steady stream of talented security people and experienced policy makers getting out of Washington as quickly as possible as the Obama administration continues to be paralyzed by indecision and a lack of direction regarding cybersecurity.

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