There's an excellent series of articles on privacy in the August 2008 edition of Scientific American. How privacy can be threatened by new technology is only one aspect that is explored.  The other is a compelling case that the solution to address  most of our fears on privacy loss is to let people, through regulatory means, have the power to exercise more control over their own personal information.

Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days. Read more from the link here - http://www.networksasia.net/article.php?type=article&id_article=3232.

Please refer to the link below for a statistics report for all breakdowns of website defacement by platform from 2005 to 2007: http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14928/30/

All Usenix Conference Proceeding Made Public! Please find more from here: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001402.html