San Francisco (ip-192.com): Cisco Systems, Inc. just released its 2009 Annual Security Report, saying that new threats are replacing old-school phishing scams. "Social media and the data-theft Trojans are the things that are really in their ascent," said Patrick Peterson, a Cisco researcher. "You can see them replacing a lot of the old-school things." The [...]

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Google continue to drift away. News that Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a company that develops APIs used for mapping, is the latest sign of an increasing rift. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's acquisition actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using [...]