One critical update for June's Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has announced four updates, one of them rated critical, will be released on July 12, this month's Patch Tuesday.
Long-running tabloid can't survive hacking scandal
A hacking scandal has led to the demise of the 168-year-old British tabloid News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Two Department of Energy labs hacked
The websites of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, Washington, and Jefferson National Laboratory, in Newport News, Virginia, have been hacked, the labs acknowledged on July 6.
Hackers telephone victims in Oregon
Having received more than a dozen reports of a telephone scam duping people into downloading malware to their computers, the Oregon Department of Justice issued a consumer warning on July 6.