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In the wake of an alleged terrorist attempt to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane, the Transportation Security Administration has subpoenaed two bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase sec... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Microsoft is insisting that there is no critical flaw in the company’s popular Internet Information Services Web server product. Earlier this week, security research... More >
It may come as no surprise that phishing attacks soared in December as cyber criminals looked to take advantage of the higher number of online shoppers in the run up to Christmas. V3.co.uk ... More >
According to eSecurity Planet , Penn State University is notifying some 30,000-plus students of a series of malware-induced data breaches that exposed their personal information for an unknown per... More >
MBNA has confirmed that customer data has been compromised following the theft of a laptop from the offices of credit and finance firm NCO Europe. According to SC Magazine , the laptop contained s... More >
Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in Boston in the final three cases brought by federal prosecutors, reports The Wall Street Journal . Under the plea a... More >
According to McAfee's "2010 Threat Predictions" report, Adobe Systems' Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the top targets for hackers in 2010, reports Computerworld . With Micros... More >
According to TG Daily , German security expert Karsten Nohls claims he has cracked the GSM encryption algorithm , making calls vulnerable to snooping. Using equipment that cost a few thousand dolla... More >
InformationWeek reports that Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services were affected by a DDoS attack last Wednesday that struck their DNS provider, UltraDNS. UltraDNS says there was never an outage, but... More >
Security researcher Soroush Dalili is warning of a highly critical new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services web server product, V3.co.uk reports. The vulnerability ... More >
U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell has granted preliminary approval to a settlement between Countrywide Financial Corp. and as many as 17 million customers whose financial data was exposed in a ... More >
A former prison inmate faces 18 months back in the slammer for hacking a computer provided to help inmates with their legal research, reports Computerworld . The thin client device was supp... More >
CTO Edge reports that Palisade Systems, which makes its data loss prevention technology available as a service, now supports Facebook and Twitter protocols in its PacketSure service for DLP . &nbs... More >
Computerworld reports that Trend Micro has taken exception with Microsoft's publishing of a list of file extensions and folders that the tech giant believes can be excluded from antivirus scans. T... More >
There are conflicting stories regarding an FBI investigation of an alleged theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by hackers. According to Computerworld , the securit... More >
Researchers at MessageLabs say that a spam attack using MP3 files has surfaced. According to V3.co.uk , the scam uses a sound file to advertise a pharmacy site that sells Viagra. Although, the mes... More >
According to researchers at MessageLabs, the Donbot network has been linked to a rash of stock-related spam messages that try to get users to invest in a low-priced stock. V3.co.uk says that once... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Heartland Payment Systems has reached a $3.6 million settlement with American Express . While Heartland has set aside more than $12 million to compensate credit card compani... More >
Somebody used a “set of valid Twitter credentials ” to redirect Twitter visitors to an Iranian opposition Web site, Tom Daly, chief technology officer at Dyn, told Wired News . From our perspective... More >
Iraqi militants have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones , reports The Wall Street Journal . Although U.S. officials say there is no evide... More >
The New York Times reports that Twitter was the target of a cyber attack that disrupted the microblogging service for many users. Twitter founder Biz Stone says hackers broke into the company’s do... More >
PCWorld.com reports that the Cloud Security Alliance has published the second edition of its guidelines for secure cloud computing . The voluminous document (76 pages) provides an architectural fra... More >
According to WRAL.com , a hacker gained access to a computer server for 25 North Carolina community colleges that contained the personal information of nearly 51,000 people . The information includ... More >
Companies continue struggle more with usual security issues likes lost laptops, unpatched or poorly coded software and inadvertent disclosures, rather than sneaky new attack techniques. To illustrate... More >
According to data by Shadowserver, China Telecom's Chinanet has been the hardest hit by the Conficker worm , reports Computerworld . The Chinese ISP had more than 1 million infected systems, which ... More >
A recent security breach involving the state of Minnesota has caused all kinds of trouble. As the Houston Chronicle reports, the incident began when Minnesota Public Radio reporter Sasha Asl... More >
Social-networking application maker RockYou Inc. suffered a database breach that allowed hackers to access username and password information on more than 30 million people, according to Computerwo... More >
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has thrown out a lawsuit by dozens of credit unions against BJ's Wholesale Club over a 2004 data breach, Computerworld reports. The court ruled that the wh... More >
Computerworld reports that Mozilla has fixed 10 vulnerabilities with the release of Firefox 3.5.6. Five of the flaws are rated critical by Mozilla, one is considered high, three are tagged as mode... More >
On Tuesday, scammers exploited the illustration on Google's front page to redirected users to malicious advertisements or pages that tried to trick visitors into buying rogue antivirus software, re... More >
According to Freep.com , two security breaches have put the personal medical information of an estimated 10,000 Detroit citizens at risk. The first theft occurred in October when a flash d... More >
Hackers are after Adobe Reader and Acrobat again. Adobe is looking into the exploitation of a vulnerability in the most up-to-date versions of the applications, according to Computerworld . ... More >
According to the FBI, rogue anti-virus programs have raked in more than $150 million , reports Computerworld . As a result, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center is warning Web surfers to be wa... More >
According to Gartner, businesses need to take new approaches to counter attacks on strong authentication factors . Hackers' persistence has led to attacks that can now circumvent two-factor authenti... More >
When you take a step back, the list of data breaches can seem almost never ending. The problem is such that the government has gotten involved in enacting the HITECH Act , the nation's first federal... More >
Hacking mastermind Albert Gonzalez has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he faces in New Jersey. Reuters reports. Gonzalez has been linked to electronic break-ins at New England grocer H... More >
In its ‘An Anatomy of a Data Breach' report, Verizon details the 15 most common attacks in 2009 , reports SC Magazine . According to this press release , the top five attacks are: Keylogging and... More >
Adobe has patched seven vulnerabilities in its Flash Player. According to Computerworld , six of the seven are considered critical and could be used to hijack Windows, Mac or Linux machines. ... More >
A University of Notre Dame employee accidentally posted files containing the names, Social Security numbers and ZIP codes of employees on a publicly accessible university Web site. According to Com... More >
SC Magazine reports that a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit "with prejudice" against Heartland Payment Systems . U.S. District Court Judge Anne E. Thompso... More >
According to The Washington Post , Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing that the Department of Homeland Security has initiated pe... More >
The U.S. computer emergency readiness team (US-CERT) has reported on a vulnerability that applies to SSL products that use the SSL URL rewriting technique. SC Magazine reports that the vuln... More >
A researcher, going by the alias "Ne0h," has posted two proof-of-concept scripts for a months-old cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Web site for the Pentagon, reports SC Magaz... More >
According to Trend Micro's annual Future Threat Report, an increasingly crowded underground market could push cyber criminals to try new and more aggressive tactics, reports V3.co.uk . Incr... More >
Following reports from German security researchers that PCs and laptops protected with BitLocker could be compromised in certain circumstances, Microsoft has come to BitLocker's defense , reports I... More >
InformationWeek reports that Microsoft addressed 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Server and Microsoft Office in this month's Patch Tuesday. Among the seven "critic... More >
The Transportation Security Administration is scrambling to figure out how a 2008 copy of its airport screening procedures manual was released in its entirety on the Internet, reports U.S News and... More >
Security firm Trusteer says a new phishing attack is going after webmasters in an effort to gain access to site credentials. According to V3.co.uk , the attack is targeting cPanel, a popula... More >
According to a MessageLabs report, malicious Web sites and botnet activity dominated the cyber security landscape over the past 12 months, reports V3.co.uk . The MessageLabs Intelligence 20... More >
Computerworld reports that for the low price of $34, anyone looking to test the security of WPA networks can try a new cloud-based hacking service that can crack a WPA network password in just 20... More >
Computerworld reports that Adobe has confirmed that a flaw in its Illustrator software could give hackers a way to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. The company says it will issue ... More >
A security breach at Eastern Illinois University may have exposed personal information from about 9,000 current and former students and applicants, according to jg-tc Online . The Chicago Tribune ... More >
Computerworld reports that over the coming year, Novell has plans to release eight new products or upgrades to address what it calls "intelligent workload management." Among those products ... More >
Apple has released two Java software updates for Mac OS X . According to PCWorld.com , the two updates, Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6 include a number o... More >
A consumer class-action lawsuit against pharmacy benefits company Express Scripts over a 2008 data breach has been thrown out by a Missouri federal court. According to Computerworld , Magis... More >
A new study by the Internet Security Alliance warns that the U.S. government and private businesses need to change the way they look at cyber security , suggesting that the government offer business... More >
Christopher Myers and Timothy Weatherly have been charged with raking in $1 million by buying computer networking gear in China and then claiming the products were from Cisco Systems, reports The Re... More >
Prevx says its fix for the so-called "black screen of death" affecting Windows PCs has been downloaded more than 50,000 times in just five days, according to InformationWeek . Although it h... More >
TopNews reports that Microsoft will release six security bulletins on its next Patch Tuesday, scheduled for Dec. 8. Three are rated as "critical," while the other three are considered "important."... More >
British hacker Gary McKinnon has been grant a short extention to challenge an extradition order to face trial in the United States, reports Computerworld . McKinnon's attorneys had requested an ex... More >
A massive H1N1 spam campaign that leads unwary users to a convincing-looking Centers for Disease Control site is "the most predominant virus/phishing campaign right now," says Troy Gill, a security ... More >
Research In Motion has issued a critical security advisory for a flaw in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software that could allow hackers to execute malicious code and hijack infrastructure... More >
Hackers behind the Koobface worm are hoping to trick Facebook users with fake messages relating to Christmas, reports SC Magazine . This latest campaign involves posting messages on Faceboo... More >
McAfee's third annual State of the Mal Web report finds that more than 5 percent of Web sites could cause security risks , reports V3.co.uk . The report not only looked at 27 million Web si... More >
It's important for retailers that hire temporary workers to keep a watchful eye in order to reduce the risk of data compromises, says Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council.... More >
Several Louisiana restaurants are suing the makers of their point-of-sale system , claiming that the companies that made and resold the systems should be responsible for fines levied by payment proce... More >
Microsoft says the so-called Black Screen of Death condition affecting some Windows users has nothing to do with any bugs in November's Patch Tuesday updates, reports eWEEK . Earlier this w... More >
As CTO Edge blogger Mike Vizard points out, the odds of making a mistake when configuring network security appliances goes up with each type of appliance added. Enter the Veri-NAC from Blac... More >
According to PCWorld.com , government security contractor Northrop Grumman is forming a research consortium with Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech... More >
According to NetworkWorld , Webroot has added to its cloud-based Web security service . Not only will the service monitor inbound Web traffic, but also outbound traffic. There is no addition... More >
Although online shopping may be a great time saver, a lack of basic online shopping smarts could put you at risk, says Washington Post blogger Brian Krebs. He offers eight online shopping tips to... More >
The URL-shortening Web site bit.ly is partnering with VeriSign, Sophos and Websense to protect users from spam and malware. According to SC Magazine , the Sophos agreement will assist bit.l... More >
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