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Think botnets are bad now? We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

A select group of some 40 security researchers gathered in the first Usenix event devoted to these networks of infected machines. The invitation-only event, called HotBots, was held in Cambridge, Mass.

At the event, researchers warned that botnets–which can contain tens or even hundreds of thousands of zombie PCs that have been taken over for use in spamming and thievery of financial and identity-related data–are on the brink of a technological leap to more resilient architectures and more sophisticated encryption that will make it that much harder to track, monitor and disable them.

Collaboration in the field of software development covers a wide range of team activities, from a co-located team working on a small project, to a geographically distributed project involving three or more time zones and hundreds of developers, some of them outsourced. This article describes the current state of collaborative development and considers several obstacles to optimum collaboration.

A special committee at CA released a report blaming co-founder Charles Wang for accounting fraud at the company and recommending suing him for damages and the value of company stock he received.

That news came on the same day that Wang’s successor, former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, was ordered to pay more than US$1 billion in restitution to victims of securities fraud he committed while at the company. Kumar also faces 12 years in jail following his conviction for obstruction of justice and securities fraud. Wang released a statement blasting the report, according to the New York Times and other news outlets. Wang was not available for comment, but his statement reportedly blamed Kumar for the fraud.

Despite the fact that unwanted exposure of consumer data has become a hot-button issue in the media and among legislators nationwide, experts admit that it remains unclear just how much damage the events will cause to the finances and reputations of companies that experience major incidents.

According to a report published this week by Javelin Strategy & Research, a recent survey it conducted of more than 1,200 consumers found that 77 percent said they would discontinue shopping at merchants who suffered major data breaches. Some 85 percent of respondents said they would prefer to reward companies who avoid major incidents by giving them more of their business.

A Federal judge has approved a deal that orders convicted tech executive Sanjay Kumar to repay almost $800 million to a fund set up to repay victims of financial improprieties at Computer Associates International during Kumar’s rule as CEO.

Judge Leo Glasser of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York approved a restitution agreement with Kumar and his estate on Friday that sets the amount of restitution at $1.02 billion. The agreement makes Kumar responsible for $800 million of that, the total amount less $225 million that Computer Associates paid into the Feinberg Fund, which reimburses present and former CA stockholders for financial losses caused by the malfeasance at the company, according to a copy of the restitution order.

Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over.

The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a "clean slate" approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up.

For years, retailers have been told that if they merely abide by common sense security procedures–don’t permit obvious passwords, check audit logs regularly and patch software immediately–they’d be in good security shape.

Although there is no doubt that is still sound counsel, security consultants are describing a new breed of professional cyber thieves out there, crooks who know as much about sophisticated forensic investigations as the good guys do.

An oversimplification would be to compare the old thieves to burglars who make serious attempts to be very quiet when breaking into a house and to leave as little evidence as possible. The new thieves care less about quiet entrances because they intend to meticulously clean the crime scene before they leave. They’re not just covering their tracks–they’re erasing them.

Cisco Systems in the summer of 2007 will begin shipping new third-generation wireless cards that add an additional connectivity option to its Integrated Services Router. The new cards, which can be purchased in either CDMA or GSM versions, are designed to work either as a backup to an existing land-line WAN or as the primary network connection in areas where land-line connections might not be available.

According to the company, the Integrated Services Router is designed to fail over to the 3G card in the event that the primary connection becomes unavailable. However, a company spokesperson said it’s also designed to be used by remote businesses and emergency workers or in areas where traditional high-speed wired connections aren’t available.

A House committee gave the federal government a grade of C-minus for 2006 as part of the committee’s annual assessment of how well information is protected on government computers.

The annual report by the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee is meant to judge compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. The committee has given the government overall grades of D, D-plus and D-plus in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively.