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SAN FRANCISCO - Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they've built will make it harder for criminals to hit that jackpot.

Perhaps you've seen this movie: A virus infects a human-piloted spacecraft, and within days the mission is compromised and Earth is lost to the alien attackers. There's now a report that the first part of that storyline has come true -- only it's a computer virus on the International Space Station.

The first ever reported computer virus has infected at least two laptops on board the International Space Station more than 200 miles above earth.

The first ever reported computer virus has infected at least two laptops onboard the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth.

Panda Security on Wednesday released the 2009 editions of its line of security products: Panda Global Protection 2009, Panda Internet Security 2009, and Panda AntiVirus Pro 2009.

SAN FRANCISCO - Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it?

WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating more than $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia that were made when a hacker broke into the Federal Emergency Management Agency's phone system 10 days ago.

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A Brazilian man has been charged in connection with operating a botnet composed of more than 100,000 computers infected with malicious software allegedly designed to send spam, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

Most people know Websense as the forbidding white page that pops up when you try to visit a Web site your employer doesn't care for. But that business isn't enough in the ever more complex world of Internet security.

LOS ANGELES - A defense attorney for the Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide argued in court papers that prosecutors are bending a cyber crime statute to prosecute his client.

PARIS (Reuters) - A European court has asked Britain to delay sending a computer expert to face trial in the United States until it can review his request to block his extradition.

Security researchers are still trying to work out exactly who is responsible for the cyberwar tactics that have knocked many Georgian government Web sites offline. While Georgian officials blamed Russia, many security experts have pointed the finger at the Russian Business Network (RBN), a shadowy outfit -- that may no longer even exist -- which has previously provided network services for Russian criminal gangs.

Russia is not only attacking Georgia by land and by air, but hackers are attacking Georgia's computer systems. Cyber attackers began launching virtual missiles at Georgian servers on Aug. 8.

PC Tools said Monday that it had begun shipping the 2009 versions of its security suite and desktop tools. In addition to the expected improvements in detection, both the Internet Security 2009 suite and Spyware Doctor 6 include "Behavior Guard," a fancy name for the ThreatFire behavioral technology PC Tools previously offered as a standalone product.

LAS VEGAS - A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers' conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Security specialists said Saturday that hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity worldwide.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted.

LAS VEGAS - Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.

Popular social-networking Web site Facebook is fighting back against hackers.

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Reporters from an online French magazine were booted from the world's premier computer security conference Thursday after reportedly hacking a press room network and stealing peers' passwords.

A three-user license for Panda Internet Security 2008 is now available from Newegg.com for free, after rebate.

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust.

LAS VEGAS - Computer security professionals tend to be a highly paranoid bunch, seeing potential threats everywhere. It turns out that some aren't cautious enough, though.

After some snooping into the core of an iPhone 3G, a hacker has reported finding a blacklist of sorts that could allow Apple to remove malicious or unauthorized applications from iPhones.

LAS VEGAS--On Wednesday, Joe Stewart, director of malware research for SecureWorks, presented his work on protocols and encryption used by the Storm worm botnet at Black Hat 2008.

LAS VEGAS - A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web.

Thousands of network security professionals are in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat Briefings computer security conference, which will be immediately followed by the DEFCON hacker convention. Both events focus on network and Internet security issues. The Black Hat conference is held at Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, while DEFCON is at the Riviera Hotel & Casino August 8-16.