Infosecurity News
Stolen laptop exposes data on four million Sutter Health patients
Sutter Health, a healthcare system in northern California, reported that an unencrypted laptop containing personal information on more than four million patients was stolen from its Sacramento offices.
Say hello to PittPatt: it will search the web and identify your image in 60 seconds
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon university – in partnership with Google - have developed a Windows application that can scour the internet, comparing images found online with a submitted picture, and identify you within 60 seconds.
ISACA guide offers advice on secure mobile payments
With MastercCard having just reported a surge in mobile payments (31% of Russians have used this technology), ISACA has issued a white paper looking at the security risks involved and offering guidance for IT security professionals.
Lieberman Software warns of more cyber-espionage cases in wake of EDF/Greenpeace saga
Lieberman Software says it expects to see more case of cyber espionage after French energy giant EDF was fined €1.5m for hacking into Greenpeace computers to download the environmental group's plans to block four planned nuclear power plants in the UK.
For small and medium-sized firms, ignorance is not bliss
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) do not consider themselves targets of cyberattacks, and thus are not implementing safeguards to protect their information, a Symantec survey concludes.
White Hat Events Raise Over £500K For Childline/NSPCC
White Hat events are pleased to announce that they have now exceeded £500k in their fundraising activities in support of ChildLine/NSPCC.
US Justice Department makes an offer Congress can’t refuse
The Department of Justice (DoJ) wants to be able to prosecute international cybercriminals under a US law originally intended to take down the Mafia, a representative told a House Judiciary panel yesterday.
Valve breach puts 35 million video game customers at risk
Video game company Valve admitted to a data breach last week that could affect the personal information of its 35 million Steam game download customers.
(ISC)² says governments need infosed community to drive strategy and standards
(ISC)², the not-for-profit IT security association, says that, against a backdrop of more and more governments recognising the need for cyber security strategies, they now need to recognize the requirement for internationally recognised skills, principals and practices to tackle what is a very sophisticated global threat landscape.
Hitchcockian thriller: Angry Birds can find you anywhere
Alfred Hitchcock could not have written a better script. It seems that the Angry Birds can find out where you live simply by your downloading their app.
Barclay Simpson publishes first quarterly rate card for security contractors
Barclay Simpson’s information security contract division has published its first quarterly rate card for contractors in the IT security industry, noting that technology risk consultants can earn £710 a day, ranging down to data privacy analysts who can command £475 a day.
Verizon says high-IQ network and enterprise clouds will be the security challenges for 2012
In its annual review of the top business IT trends for the year ahead Verizon says that high-IQ networks and the enterprise cloud will foster business innovation and a borderless workstyle in 2012.
Next-gen Android trojan uses Google Library disguise
China's NetQin - in conjunction with a research team with North Carolina state university - claim to have discovered a new type of Android trojan that disguises itself as a Google Library.
Codenomicon gets fuzzy on security testing
Codenomicon has taken the wraps off a completely reworked version of Defensics X, its security and robustness testing application. The new version is billed as using fuzzing techniques to enhance its capabilities.
Free Android anti-virus products "virtually useless", says report
An in-depth report from AV-Test.org claims that the raft of Android anti-malware apps that have arrived in the last 12 months or so are all virtually useless.
Which? Magazine reports privacy fatigue hitting Facebook
The latest issue of Which? Computing – the magazine of the UK Consumer’s Association – has published a special report on privacy on the Facebook social network services.
Computershare hit by rogue employee data theft
Computershare, the international share dealing company – which claims to be the largest in its market – has been hit by a data theft incident from a former employee. What perhaps makes matters worse is that the staffer was an audit risk professional.
Estonian group revealed as key ChronoPay investors
The saga of Russia’s ChronoPay electronic money operation – which has been hit by arrests and dark accusations over the last 12 months – continued this week with the revelation that an Estonian company is a key investor in the firm.
With data breaches, failing to plan is planning to fail, says Forrester
A poorly contained data breach and mishandled response could cost companies millions of dollars in lost business and damaged reputation, warns Forrester analysts.
Apple plugs 17 holes in Java for Snow Leopard and Lion
Apple has fixed 17 vulnerabilities in Java for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion, a move that brings the Mac operating systems up to date with Oracle’s Java SE 6 update 29.
