Infosecurity News
Judge rejects plea for Florida ID theft duo
A Florida couple accused of selling off patient records from a Miami-area medical center had their plea agreements rejected by a Federal court judge yesterday.
Maryland settles with Mid Atlantic Processing
The Maryland Attorney General announced the state has settled a case against payment card processor Mid Atlantic Processing, which allegedly improperly disposed of 77 boxes containing client data.
Twitter accounts being compromised by new service
Reports are coming in that large numbers of Twitter account holders have had their online accounts compromised, with the accounts apparently generating messages advertising a website that claims to help users attract more followers.
Feds resist cloud computing over security concerns
A newly released survey from (ISC)² shows that federal CISOs are avoiding cloud computing applications due to concerns about replicating IT security policy in the cloud.
Kaspersky Lab says half of net digital pollution originates from China, US and Russia
Research just released claims to show that China, the US and the Russian Federation contributed 49% of all web-based threats reported in April 2010.
Facebook under fire for stealth app installs
Fresh from its security problems of earlier in the week when members' chat sessions were visible to third-party users, Facebook has come under fire for allegedly installing applications on users' Facebook areas by stealth.
Laptop users need to raise their encryption game
Fresh from releasing a range of encrypted drive kits at last week's Infosecurity Europe show, Origin Storage says that the steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques – which started when Russia's Elcomsoft released the first versions of its Password Recovery suite of 'utilities' around 18 months ago – means that laptop users must now raise their game when it comes to encryption.
Security professionals sceptical of politicians' concern for cyber security
Security professionals lack confidence that political parties will do anything to improve cyber security, according to a survey by security firm Proofpoint.
Louisville hospital loses nearly 25 000 patient records
Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital in Louisville has notified the public of the loss of a flash drive containing the personal information of 24 600 patients.
Researcher to unveil ATM rootkit
A researcher originally blocked from giving a talk about security in ATMs will go ahead and make his presentation at the Black Hat USA conference this year.
VeriSign report details ways to defend against DDoS attacks
VeriSign has released a report that seeks to assist online businesses and other enterprises in protecting themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Lost NHS USB drive exposes medical records
A USB drive that contained the medical records of patients and personal information on NHS staff was apparently lost by a member of staff of a secure medical unit in Scotland, and has turned up in a supermarket car park.
FBI thwarts ATM hacking attempt
A North Carolina man has been accused of trying to hack into an automated teller machine and change its password, according to a complaint filed by the FBI.
Facebook publishes chat messages by mistake
Social networking giant Facebook temporarily shut down its live chat service this week, after a security flaw caused the site to begin showing some users' chat messages to their other contacts.
ISF expands membership opportunities
The ISF are this year focussing on expanding their membership to include government and SME membership.
Half of SMBs do not use social network filtering
Research just released claims to show that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are saying one thing and doing another when it comes to taking action to protect against the social networking activities of their staff.
More than two-thirds of IT security investment wasted, says Verizon Business
Businesses are pumping information security investment into all the wrong areas, research has revealed.
Cybercriminals trading in large volumes of Facebook accounts, say researchers
Cybercriminals are selling fake and stolen accounts on social networking site Facebook in bulk in the underground economy, according to security researchers.
Pump and dump scammers convicted
Two pump and dump scammers were convicted by a federal jury this week. G. David Gordon and Richard Clark, both of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be sentenced for stock trading offenses committed between 2004 and 2006.
LoveBug – the worm that changed the IT security landscape – is ten years old today
Today is the tenth anniversary of the LoveBug worm, which was arguably the first malware infection that used social engineering techniques to propagate itself.
