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In the Headlines November 23, 2009

Another iPhone Worm, but this One is Serious
Another iPhone worm has been spotted in the wild. Unlike the previous exploitation, which merely changed a jailbroken iPhone's wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley of "Rickrolling" fame, this new threat allows hackers to steal sensitive information.

Report: Cyberattacks Against the U.S. "Rising Sharply"
A new report prepared for Congress found that the number of cyberattacks against the U.S. government is “rising sharply” in 2009, and many of the attacks are coming from Chinese state and state-sponsored entities.

New Attack Fells Internet Explorer
A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker.

Hacker Exposes Global Warming Researcher
Hackers broke in and revealed the private e-mails of Phil Jones, a famous climatologist. This is going to be one of the most politically relevant hacks of the last few years. When hackers broke into Sarah Palin's e-mails during the presidential campaign, they failed to find any interesting dirt. Phil Jones' e-mails, though, are full of dirt. There's no proof of a "conspiracy" or "cover-up", but a lot of the e-mails look bad for Jones and some of his fellow researchers.

Can Adobe Beat Back the Hackers?
For years, Adobe Systems (ADBE) has occupied a quiet corner of the personal-computer industry. Photographers and designers use its software to clean up photos and set up Web sites. Workers everywhere trade electronic documents formatted with Adobe's programs, often without knowing the company behind the software.