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It provides me with a great amount of satisfaction to be able to bring you the latest and up to date computer security vulnerability news. I would like to bring to your attention the factor that various vulnerabilities have been reported in LinkPal, which may prove problematic futuristically. Read more…
A Cincinnati man has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for his involvement in a scheme that tricked more than one million individuals into buying rogue anti-virus products. James Reno and his company, ByteHosting Internet Services, agreed to pay the money, which represents the gross revenue he obtained [...]
Dell is developing a pocket-size Internet device using Google’s Android operating system that could take on Apple’s iPod Touch, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Monday. Two people who have seen early prototypes of the device told the newspaper it looks like Apple’s iPod Touch but slightly larger. And like the [...]
Senior executives should play special computer games and watch animations to help them understand the scale of the threat from cyber-crime and win their support for improvements in security, one of Japan’s top Internet protection experts said yesterday at the 21st annual conference of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. Read more…
update COMMONWEALTH Bank’s online banking service, NetBank suffered its latest outage when it was knocked offline yesterday for a few hours due to an abnormal amount of “suspicious” traffic. CBA chief information officer Michael Harte said the bank decided to quarantine the service after experiencing exceptionally high volumes of traffic that couldn’t be verified. Read [...]
A vulnerability in a third-party service through which users post photos to their Twitter profiles allowed hackers on Sunday to falsely report that Britney Spears had died. The attackers, apparently preying on the fact that several notable celebrities died last week, including Michael Jackson, were able to post a message to Spears’ Twitter profile that [...]
Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world’s top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet. Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the hard way. A virus took control of her laptop and started sending pornographic photos to colleagues. Read more…
sraeli security outfit Tufin has added an automatic policy generator (APG) to its SecureTrack firewall analysis system. The new feature lets admins plan firewall deployments based on the traffic actually passing across their networks. According to Tufin, the problem with new firewalls is that they have the potential to cause problems in ways that are [...]
Just what motivates the bad-guys to hack into a computer or network infrastructure? According to Stuart McClure, vice-president of operations, strategy for McAfee Inc.’s risk and compliance business unit, and one of the authors of the book Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, malicious intent, combined with design flaws, misused functionality and poor common [...]
US judges are grappling with the implications of a workplace email hacking case that led to the suicide of a local official. Christopher Baron, 33, an emergency medical technician from Wisconsin, allegedly hacked into the email account of EMS Director Mark Fisher back in August 2006. Read more…
