Infosecurity News
Grey Goose 2 ties Kremlin more closely to Georgia cyber-attacks
The follow-up to the Grey Goose cyberwar document has more closely linked Russia to the cyberwar against Georgia. The Kremlin's FSB tried to cloak its operations by mimicking the activities of loosely-connected criminal group the Russian Business Network, claims the explosive report, released today.
Russians hack Diebold ATM software
The act of ATM Card skimming and shoulder surfing - used by criminals the world over to create cloned cards from users of bank cash machines - has entered a new dimension.
Expert calls for cyberspace "Monroe doctrine"
A mixture of private sector and congressional witnesses slammed the US for a lack of cohesion in its cyber security stance this week, calling for better leadership in the defense of the country's "cyber turf".
Google Docs leaks out private data
The security rating of cloud computing has taken a battering with news that users of Google's online word processing service - Google Docs - may have shared their data with unauthorised users.
New version of L0phtCrack to be unveiled next week
Seasoned penetration testers and security experts will recall that L0phtCrack, a seriously heavy-duty password testing utility, was quietly withdrawn by Symantec in 2006, after the IT security vendor reportedly became worried about export regulations of the high-tech software from the United States.
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.
