IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

jamie writes with news of a Facebook app developer who found a significant security hole while he was trying to get around function limitations for his application.

CurtMonash writes "Twitter was hit Saturday by a worm that caused victims' accounts to tweet favorably about the StalkDaily website.

r writes "The New York Times reports on a security flaw discovered in the new Android phones.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft said late Wednesday that it plans to release a critical security update today to plug a security hole present in all supported versions of Windows.

Death Metal notes a Wired piece on the US government beginning the process of securing the root zone file.

scribbles89 sends in a story with that alarmist headline from Neowin.net; it does sound like it could be a game-changer.

climber writes "Just days after the first scareware for OSX, researchers are pondering the problems of an iPhone exploit that could lead to larger issues.