Infosecurity News
UPDATE: Stolen network equipment causes Vodafone UK network outage
The theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network.
5000th professional earns ISACA's CRISC certification
ISACA, the not-for-profit IT security association, has reported the 5,000th candidate for the CRISC certification programme, which was introduced just 10 months ago.
Obfuscated multi-browser banking trojan spotted by Spain's S21sec
A Spanish IT security research firm has spotted a man-in-the-browser trojan that injects HTML in all of the mainstream Web browsers and uses rootkit techniques to hide its presence.
Sophos warns on 'beta test' Mac OS X backdoor trojan
It used to be a reflection of the maturity of the computer software marketplace that applications went through beta testing to iron out bugs. Now it seems the same process applies to malware, as Sophos is warning users to be on alert for a beta test of a new Mac OS X trojan.
Security researcher urges caution before installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Security researcher Brian Krebs is urging Windows 7 users to think carefully before they install Service Pack 1, which was released to users of the latest Windows platform earlier this month.
Two Android viruses circulating in the wild
Two Google Android viruses have been spotted circulating and infecting users’ smartphones in the wild. The viruses are potentially nasty because one - SW.SecurePhone - uploads data to remote servers from the users' handset, whilst the other - SW.Qieting - auto-forwards messages to a remote number.
London Stock Exchange tackles malware problem
Some parts of the London Stock Exchange website have been exposed to a computer virus after an advert on its website hosted malware.
Download the final Firefox 4 beta
The final Firefox 4 beta is now ready to download and test.
Companies are moving to gain control over sensitive data stored in the cloud
Increasingly, companies are looking to take responsibility for securing their data in the cloud, rather than leaving the security of their sensitive data to cloud providers, according to analysts consulted by Infosecurity.
Mass General takes $1 million hit for losing 193 patient records
Following closely on the heels of its first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule fine, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has doled out a $1 million fine against Massachusetts General Hospital for a data breach involving 192 patients begin treated for infectious diseases.
US dropped as spam source in 2010, says Kaspersky
The last two months of 2010 saw a marked decline in spam volumes, particularly from the United States, according to Kaspersky Lab’s annual analytical spam report.
Alan Turing's papers stay in UK with £200,000 donation
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has stepped in to provide last-minute funding of £213,437 to keep papers written by computer science pioneer Alan Turing in the UK.
IT security managers should only outsource what systems they understand says ISACA
With the ISACA EuroCACS event under a month away, Infosecurity got a chance to talk to Jay Leek, vice president of international security with Equifax, about the topic of outsourcing and security, which he will speak about at the conference.
SpamIt and Glavmed pharmacy spam campaigns generate $50m a year
Reports are coming in that a cybercriminal gang - with members who were involved in the Storm and Waledac worms - have raked in more than $150 million promoting unlicensed online pharmacies between May 2007 and June 2010.
Smartphones to outsell PCs - better security needed
With sales of smartphones continuing to rise - to the point where more smartphones are now expected to be sold this year than conventional PCs - hackers are turning their attentions away from Windows-driven PCs and over to the iPhones, Androids and Win7 handsets in our pockets.
The password is dead, long live ID
When GrIDsure’s CTO, Stephen Howes, said “the password is dead”, it wasn’t particularly controversial. At least, not to those in the information security industry. Howes wasn’t the first to mutter such statement, and he certainly won’t be the last.
Australian court rules ISP not liable for online piracy
The result of a potentially major precedent-setting case in Australia over the liability of an ISP for its users' online piracy activities is sending shockwaves throughout the internet industry, following an Australian federal court's decision to dismiss an appeal against a 2010 ruling on ISP responsibilities.
Apple iPhone operating system cracked to run on $300 Chinese smartphone
It looks as though smartphone crackers may be beating Apple to market with a (relatively) low-cost iPhone, as reports are coming in that iOs 3.0.1 - originally seen on the iPhone 3GS series - has been cracked to run on the Meizu M8 smartphone.
Many companies are not protected against or aware of security risks, McAfee warns
A full 41% of organizations are not well aware of or protected against information security risks, according to a new McAfee report.
ISC releases security fix for Bind DoS vulnerability
The Internet Systems Consortium has published an advisory and an update for the Bind domain name system software versions 9.7.1 to 9.7.2-P3.
