Government
The US Government has decided not to classify the use of proxy servers as "sophisticated means" in cybercrime cases. That classification could have led to extra jail time for perpetrators.
The NSA has been surveilling phone and email conversations more broadly than was originally allowed.
Twitter
New versions of the Mikeyy Twitter worm have been spreading across the popular service, and at least one is said to be targeting those with large numbers of followers. The original worm's author has also reportedly been hired as a web developer.
Tools
US-CERT has released Dranzer, a tool that helps to identify and fix vulnerabilities in ActiveX code.
Microsoft is giving its Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) forensic tool to Interpol, which will provide it for use by its 187 member countries.
Legal
Washington State has passed a law that stops anyone except the business or agency that issued the tag, except under certain conditions.
The people behind torrent search site Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement, sentenced to a year in prison and fined 30m Kroner ($3.56m). But ISPs refused to shut down the site anyway.
Miscellaneous
The Jericho Forum released a white paper detailing best practices in cloud security. Securiosis launched Project Quant, which aims to define metrics concerning the cost and efficacy of software patching.