The Olympic Games in London could suffer a severe “cyber attack” unless urgent action is taken, according to former home secretary David Blunkett.

The Labour MP said such an attack would be “devastating” but systems existed to block it. He is urging a co-ordinated approach between government, security experts and business to ensure Britain is safe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8019948.stm

A BRITISH agent has thrown the war against drug traffickers into chaos by leaving top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America.

In a blunder that has cost taxpayers millions of pounds and put scores of lives at risk, the drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details of more than five years of intelligence work.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6169077.ece?Submitted=true

The worm hacks into Twitter profiles and automatically sends unauthorized Twitter status updates to contacts from the hacked accounts. Users who look at infected profiles are then automatically infected, and unauthorized posts are automatically sent to their contacts.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/041809-new-twitter-worm-targets.html

The website of junior transport minister Paul Clarke was hacked over the weekend by apparently motiveless mischief-makers.

Defacers scrawled digital graffiti on labourisworking.com, which is run by the Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Transport.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/06/transport_min_web_hack/

The FBI are investigating the online leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a month before the film’s cinema release.

The Hugh Jackman film was downloaded an estimated 100,000 times from file-sharing websites on Tuesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7978379.stm