One of the more interesting tidbits in Symantec’s Global Internet Threat Report (PDF, 105 pages) is the price sheet, which suggests that someone’s ‘full identity’ is worth in the range of $1-$15. Your email password goes for $4-$30 and your bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more for the bank account than is actually in it? There’s also an executive summary (PDF, 36 pages)

The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio is committing to 3-D and will release all of its movies in the format beginning with “Up” next year.

Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney’s upcoming lineup of animated movies through 2012.

He said Walt Disney Animation Studios will offer “The Princess and the Frog,” a musical set in New Orleans, in the traditional hand-drawn format for release for Christmas 2009.

Meanwhile, Pixar movies will be released in 3-D and the traditional two-dimensional format, beginning in May 2009 with “Up,” about an elderly widower who embarks on a South American adventure.

Lasseter said he has been inspired by three-dimensional photography for decades.

“I love 3-D. I made a 3-D computer-animated short in 1989 called ‘Nickname,’ and in fact my wedding pictures with my beautiful wife Nancy were made in 3-D,” he said.

The lineup from Walt Disney Animation Studios also includes the November release of “Bolt,” the story of an actor dog who believes he has super powers; “Rapunzel,” a retelling of the fairy tale set for release for Christmas 2010; and the modern-day fantasy “King of the Elves,” set for release for Christmas 2012. Those films will be released in both 3-D and two-dimensional formats.

Pixar’s upcoming releases include “Toy Story 3″ in June 2010; “newt,” a love story involving the last two blue-footed newts alive, set for the summer 2011; the Scottish fantasy “The Bear and the Bow” for Christmas 2011; and “Cars 2″ in the summer of 2012.

Pixar also plans to rerelease the original “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2″ in the 3-D format.

Hewlett-Packard has been selling USB-based hybrid flash-floppy drives that were pre-infected with malware, the company said last week in a security bulletin.

Dubbed “HP USB Floppy Drive Key,” the device is a combination flash drive and compact floppy drive, and is designed to work with various models of HP’s ProLiant Server line. HP sells two versions of the drive, one with 256MB of flash capacity, the other with 1GB of storage space.

A security analyst with the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center (ISC) suspects that the infection originated at the factory, and was meant to target ProLiant servers. “I think it’s naive to assume that these are not targeted attacks,” said John Bambenek, who is also a researcher at the University of Illinois.

Both versions of the flash-floppy drive, confirmed HP in an April 3 advisory, may come with a pair of worms, although the company offered few details. It did not, for instance, say how many of the drives were infected, where in the supply chain the infections occurred or even when they were discovered.

If a compromised drive is plugged into a USB port on any machine on the network, the worms may spread “to any mapped drives on the server,” HP’s alert said.

Up-to-date anti-virus software should detect the malware, but HP didn’t specify which of the many available programs would find and then delete the worms. Symantec, for example, has signature definitions in its collection for both pieces of malicious code, which it identifies as “Fakerecy” and “SillyFDC.”

HP’s recommendations included scanning the devices for infection, but the company did not answer questions about the pre-infected drives.

Adobe Systems debuted a new media playing software, Adobe Media Player 1.0 (AMP) along with online programming instructional video content on how to use the company’s products, it said Wednesday.

The move makes Adobe the latest player to get into the online video space, offering not only software that rivals Apple’s Quicktime and Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, but also video content such as episodes of “CSI: Miami” and “CSI: New York,” along with other feature programming and music videos.

Announced about a year ago, the Media Player and content catalog is designed to be free for end users, supported by advertising, according to Ashley Still, senior product manager at Adobe, in an interview.

Users can sort their favorite content and can search for new material. They can also subscribe to favorite shows that are featured, and are then reminded when new episodes are available, Still said.

Shows and videos will be available either streaming or for download, depending on the content producer, and can be viewed online or offline accordingly, Still said.

Yahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internet’s dominant video channel, Google Inc.’s YouTube.

Flickr’s video technology, to debut late Tuesday, represents the latest example of Yahoo trying to catch up to Google in a crucial battleground.