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Dan Kaminsky, the security expert who found a critical DNS flaw and organized a massive patching effort, reiterated the need for quick patching.

Now that the details of the DNS cache-poisoning vulnerability are out in the open, hackers predict that an exploit will be deployed sooner rather than later.

A district judge in Washington state handed down a 47-month sentence to notorious spammer Robert Soloway, whose conviction the court felt presented an excellent opportunity to send an unfiltered message to other cybercriminals.

The Terry Childs situation in San Francisco, in which password and configuration control resided with just one (angry) employee, isn't an anomaly. IT managers around the country say they see it all the time -- especially with small and medium-sized businesses.