The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4 address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more built-in network security as well as some new potential security threats. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]

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Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams. Read the full article. [The Register]

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Scareware and rogue AV programs have enjoyed a very good run in the last few years, making millions of dollars for their creators and generally making life miserable for victims. And while there's been some innovation recently in the mechanisms attackers use to keep the programs resident on infected machines, researchers say that for the most part, users' lack of security savvy and laziness about updating their PCs essentially obviates the need for the use of novel techniques to make these scams work.

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Mitigation has become the word of the moment at Microsoft, and the company on Thursday continued its recent flow of tools designed to lessen the effectiveness of certain attacks with the release of version 2.0 of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.

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In this video, Niklas Wolff of the CSIS Security Group demonstrates an exploit for the recent integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader (CVE-2010-2862), disclosed at Black Hat in July, that allows remote code execution.

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Online bank fraud, for all of its obvious ploys and tired tactics, is still a remarkably effective way to make money. Too lazy or clueless to get a real job? Go phishing. Lots of people are doing it, and by some estimates, it's evolving into a nearly $1 billion business.

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Scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams. Naturally, you first have to fill in a survey to install the script, which is punted through Userscripts(dot)org. Read the full article. [The Register]

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Cyber crooks stole just shy of $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]

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The recent admission by a top Department of Defense official that a classified network was compromised in 2008 through an infected USB drive has brought the spotlight back onto the myriad threats that these portable devices pose to corporate networks.

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Google has removed malicious programs from its Google Code platform after Web firm zScaler said the company's servers were being used to serve malicious code.

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