Verizon snoops peek at Obama’s cell phone records

Nosy Verizon employees improperly accessed and peeked at Barack Obama’s personal cell phone records, the company said in a statement acknowledging the privacy breach. In the statement, Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam apologized to the President-elect and vowed that the errant employees will be disciplined.  The Associated Press reports no voicemails or e-mails [...]

Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP

Spammers are abusing Microsoft’s online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world’s 5th most spam-friendly ISP (Internet Service Provider). The latest update of Spamhaus.org’s list of the world’s worst spam networks shows Microsoft at #5 because of 26 “current known spam issues” surrounding [...]

iPhone update kills 12 security bugs

Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch (which also affect iPod Touch) could allow remote code execution, information theft, software crashes and weakened encryption settings. The skinny on this batch of updates:

CVE-2008-2321: CoreGraphics contains memory corruption issues [...]