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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

Security researchers break satellite phone encryption

Academics Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund from Ruhr University Bochum have reverse-engineered and cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 voice ciphers used by many satellite networks.
03 February 2012

Ernst & Young loses 401k information of bank employeesErnst & Young loses 401k information of bank employees

Ernst & Young, auditors of Regions Financial Corp., lost personal information on current and former Regions’ employees when a flash drive with the data sent in the mail was stolen.
01 February 2012

When it comes to customer data protection, firms are phoning it inWhen it comes to customer data protection, firms are phoning it in

Only half of IT professionals believe that their organization made its best effort to protect customer and consumer information, according to a survey by credit reporting firm Experian and the Ponemon Institute.
30 January 2012

Mobile devices in the workplace cause more security breaches, say firms

Close to three-quarters of businesses believe mobile devices have caused an increase in security incidents, according to a survey sponsored by IT security firm Check Point Software Technologies.
20 January 2012

Olympic security dossier left on London train

A secret file said to contain security plans for the London Olympics was apparently left on a London train by a policeman.
19 January 2012

Has India got backdoors into Rim, Nokia and Apple? Probably

Symantec ‘source’ code wasn’t the only thing stolen in the recent hack of the Indian Military by the team calling itself The Lords of Dharmaraja. There’s a memo supposedly indicating that at least Blackberry, Nokia and Apple have provided backdoors into their systems in exchange for access to the Indian market.
12 January 2012

2012 resolution: Encrypt the whole disk on all of your computers2012 resolution: Encrypt the whole disk on all of your computers

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging one single new year’s resolution: “full disk encryption on every computer you own.”
05 January 2012

Gordon Brown’s hacked emails – the lessons to be learnt

Operation Tuleta, the British police investigation into potential computer hacking offenses related to the press phone hacking scandal, has suggested that ex-prime minister Gordon Brown’s emails may have been hacked.
04 January 2012

Home and business Wi-Fi networks are vulnerable

The majority of home computer networks are wireless and configured by non-technical people. Recognizing that this could lead to security weaknesses, the Wi-Fi Alliance developed the Wi-Fi Protected Setup Protocol (WPS) in 2007 to allow easy security configuration; and the majority of wireless router manufacturers have built this into their products as a default.
03 January 2012

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