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Senators to introduce compromise cybersecurity legislation, with FISMA revisionsSenators to introduce compromise cybersecurity legislation, with FISMA revisions

A bipartisan group of senators who authored cybersecurity legislation last year plan to introduce a compromise cybersecurity bill that will be examined at a hearing next Thursday.
10 February 2012

Bank of America cops to credit card data breachBank of America cops to credit card data breach

Bank of America has informed affected credit card customers that their information may have been compromised by a breach at an unidentified merchant.
10 February 2012

Texas jury strikes down claim of interactive web patentsTexas jury strikes down claim of interactive web patents

A federal jury in Texas has declared invalid patents for interactive web technology claimed by Michael Doyle and his patent holding company Eolas.
10 February 2012

Hackers steal information from Apple supplier accused of poor working conditionsHackers steal information from Apple supplier accused of poor working conditions

A hacker group calling itself Swagg Security has publicly posted employee and customer login credentials and other personal information stolen from Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturer of the Apple iPhone and iPad.
10 February 2012

Privacy group sues FTC over Google's privacy changes

A US federal judge has granted the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) an accelerated briefing schedule for its lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Google’s new privacy policy.
10 February 2012

Chariots on Fire for White Hat Rally

Register now for the security industry’s 4th annual driving challenge in support of Barnardo’s
10 February 2012

UK attitudes to online safety and personal safety are different

A YouGov survey commissioned by SAS shows that the UK public are likely to trade privacy for security on the streets, but are wary of giving up privacy on the wire.
10 February 2012

UK security skills are ‘wholly inadequate’

Baroness Neville-Jones, the government’s special representative to business on cyber security, and a former security minister, says that the UK lacks adequate cyber security expertise.
10 February 2012

Google Wallet vulnerable to brute forcing the PIN

Security researcher Joshua Rubin has published details of his research showing a vulnerability in the Google Wallet near field communication payments system for Android.
10 February 2012

Google fixes 20 flaws with latest version of Chrome browserGoogle fixes 20 flaws with latest version of Chrome browser

Google is keeping up its fast-and-furious Chrome development pace with the release of version 17, just two months after version 16 came out and one day after Chrome for Android was introduced.
09 February 2012

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