The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released a fact sheet this week outlining how merchants can securely accept payments using mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets.
17 May 2012
Last month, Ars Technica asked the question, ‘Can Apple give police a key to your encrypted iPhone data?’ It concluded that it probably could not for the data on the device; but probably could for data stored in iCloud. Now the question has less relevance, with the latest version of ElcomSoft’s EPPB and the increasing use of iCloud.
15 May 2012
Yesterday we reported that 55,000 Twitter accounts have been leaked on Pastebin. Security researchers Anders Nilsson and Robin Wood have separately analyzed the dump.
10 May 2012
Apple exposed encryption passwords of FileVault users in its Lion OS X 10.7 security update, says researcher.
07 May 2012
Steganography is the science of hiding data. Its most common digital use is to hide data within graphics – text hidden in a picture. Al-Qaeda apparently hid documents within porn videos on a memory stick.
02 May 2012
The engineer who developed the Google’s Street View application wrote the code to capture data from unprotected wireless networks, according to a report by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
01 May 2012
The studio behind the Star Trek Online game had its user account database breached over a year ago, but is only reporting it now.
30 April 2012
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has updated its standard for point-to-point encryption (P2PE) used to secure payment card information.
30 April 2012
Japanese automaker Nissan and US athletic goods supplier Under Armour have both recently reported data breaches involving disclosure of confidential employee information.
26 April 2012
Chaired by Quocirca's Bob Tarzey, Network Rail's CISO Peter Gibbons and Yell's CISO Phil Cracknell led a lively discussion on the current and future role of the CISO.
25 April 2012