Infosecurity News
Google: crack our native client and win $8,192 (£6,000)
Google is challenging the cracking community to rip apart its ActiveX alternative called Google Native Client.
Council staff breach security of National ID database
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that 33 public sector workers across 30 local authorities have accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) “without business justification”.
European Union to investigate internet telephony eavesdropping
Against a backdrop of the increasing use of internet telephony (aka voice over IP) by criminals as a way of avoiding wiretaps, the European Union has thrown its weight behind research into how to monitor internet telephony calls on a cost-effective basis.
Facebook moves to save face on T&Cs
Social networking giant Facebook has back-tracked on a controversial decision to retain users' information, even when they close their accounts.
Arrests made in Heartland breach
Timothy J. Johns, Jeremy A. Frazier and Tony Acreus, all in their early twenties, were arrested while using stolen credit card numbers to make purchases in Leon County, Tallahassee.
Kaspersky site hack expands to BitDefender and F-Secure
Romanian hackers are reported to be targeting the web sites of several IT security vendors.
Los Alamos in hot water over computer loss
The Department of Energy has slammed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for lax cybersecurity following the revelation last week that 69 computers are missing from the nuclear laboratory.
Malicious URLs arrive on Digg Web portal
The ingenuity of malware distributors has reached new levels - of depths - depending on your point of view.
More details emerge on Kaspersky hack
As more details of the Kaspersky web site hack came to light yesterday, the same hacking forum posted details of a similar SQL injection attack, this time on a Portugese reseller for anti-malware firm BitDefender.
Online hotel fraud scamming 71 000 travellers a month
FraudTip, a Web security portal, claims that an internet scam is defrauding around 71 000 travellers every month by the simple expedient of routing internet users to fraudulent versions of popular booking sites.
Kaspersky site hacked over weekend
Anti-malware vendor Kaspersky's site was hacked over the weekend, using an SQL injection attack. While admitting that the site was vulnerable, Kaspersky is denying that the vulnerabiity was critical. The hacker nevertheless listed what he said was the full set of tables from the firm's MySQL database.
$9m lifted in RBS Worldpay ATM heist
The FBI is investigating a $9m large-scale ATM fraud using cards cloned from US card processor RBS Worldpay.
Blind hacker fulfils Sneakers movie role 17 years on
Movies have a funny habit of becoming reality and the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, is no exception.
Google falls victim to human error
On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due to a widespread result of human error.
Companies their own worst enemy says IBM X-Force report
The annual report from IBM's X-Force security operation shows what many IT managers have suspected for some time, namely that Web application vulnerabilities represent the major risk for most organisations.
Google falls victim to human error
On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due a widespread result of human error.
Hackers run up $207 000 phone bill for Canadian law firm
If you've had a high company phone bill recently, spare a thought for Martin & Hillyer, a law firm in Burlington, Ontario.
ISACA unveils new IT security business model
ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, has developed a new business model for IT security.
Update: McKinnon Wins Permission for Judicial Review
'NASA hacker' Gary McKinnon has won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States.
Germany's train IT resources offline due to UPS failure
Here's a lesson in IT contingency planning, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway network company, whose IT systems - including station indicator boards, electronic ticketing, self-service counter tickets and Internet pages - all went off line on January 14 due to single UPS failing.
