Authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers including more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and at least 40 major banks.
 

Here's a case of looking at the same data and coming up with radically different interpretations.

The conservative Wake Community Network issued a press release last Tuesday  blaming the state NAACP and the Great Schools in Wake Coalition for greatly increasing the Wake County school system's security costs. GSIW fired back on Thursday with a press release blaming the additional costs on the school board majority.

Between December and April, the school system spent $14,719.39 for private security and off-duty police officers to provide security at board meetings.   That doesn't include all the security who were at last week's board meeting.

Security firm Secunia has released a report which shows Apple to have more vulnerabilities than Microsoft.

The rogue Facebook app spread virally gaining wall access of hundreds of thousands of users.

A rogue App Store developer has swindled iTunes users across the globe.

U.S. officials have largely ruled out North Korea as the origin of a computer attack, but are not much closer than they were a year ago to knowing exactly who did it - and why.

Witness the irony of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, former running mate of Al Gore, proposing a "kill switch" for the internet and the sole power to the president in the case of a national emergency.

Computing security form Sophos  has issued a warning to Facebook users on a rogue app victimizing hundreds of thousands of users.

Connecticut's attorney general says Google has informed his office that it collected data over the state's public wireless networks in 2008 for its mapping service.

Will things begin to slow down at Wake County school board meetings?

School board chairman Ron Margiotta said Wake has been spending $1,000 per meeting for additional security because of the crowds and their behavior. The money has paid for eight off-duty uniformed law enforcement officers, working in two shifts of four, and additional private security officers.