AFP reports that, according to security specialists, “

[o]nline sharing of videos and music at the heart of today’s Internet lifestyle gives hackers dangerous new avenues for attacking computers.  Malicious code can be hidden in video streamed or downloaded from websites such as YouTube or songs streamed from social-networking websites including MySpace, iSEC researcher David Thiel demonstrated at a Black Hat gathering of computer protection professionals in Las Vegas.”

According to eWeek.com, “[a] resurgence of malware activity in Russia has caught the eye of security vendors.  Recently, researchers at Trend Micro have found a Russian server hosting some 400 pieces of malware that may be part of a forthcoming large-scale attack, while at least one other vendor reported that the country has quickly moved back up on the list of purveyors of Web-based malware.”

The Mercury News points out that “Congress is adopting a significant, tech-friendly increase in basic science research and more training and support for math, science and foreign-language programs.”

The International Herald Tribune writes that, according to a study released Thursday by the law firm Foley & Lardner, “[t]he cost of complying with the U.S. corporate reform known as Sarbanes-Oxley has fallen, but most of the cost savings are because of internal efficiencies at companies, because audit fees are still rising. Increases in audit and legal fees and a need to pay corporate directors more have added to the hefty cost of compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley’s internal control rules, known as Section 404.”

CNetNews.com reports that “[t]he latest group to chime in on Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of ad firm DoubleClick is the […] Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC).  The CIPPIC is asking Canadian regulators, the Competition Commissioner, to be exact, to review the Google-DoubleClick deal. Like others before it, the CIPPIC alleges that the merger would prevent or at least significantly lessen competition in the market for online targeted advertising because of Google’s dominance in keyword search and DoubleClick’s lead in the display ad serving and behavioral targeting ad business.”