Infosecurity News
The Electro-Magnetic Pulse threat to national infrastructures
The House of Commons Defence Committee has examined the UK posture towards EMP, and finds it wanting. “It is time that the Government began to approach this matter with the seriousness it deserves.”
Memphis police investigate tax preparer's data dump
A tax preparer based in Memphis, Tenn., is accused of throwing out thousands of tax documents containing customers’ personal information, including driver's license and social security numbers, in dumpsters at one of its offices, according to Memphis police.
The contradictions of password psychology
A new survey on attitudes towards passwords indicates an apparent contradiction: most people want stricter password security policies, but don’t bother changing their own default passwords.
End of the death grip court case
Apple has agreed settlement terms for the ultimate self-inflicted DoS: the ‘death grip’ that can cause the iPhone 4 to drop its signal.
TGIF: If you are a member of Anonymous, that is
Giddy with its recent successes against the FBI, Scotland Yard, the CIA, and US stock exchanges, Anonymous and its affiliates are vowing to launch cyberattacks every Friday.
The BYOD problem: criminal infiltration and data exfiltration
A solution to the growing ‘BYOD problem’ can be achieved by extending network access control at the servers to include mobile devices in the field by combining NAC and MDM.
Local authorities have spent £515m on CCTV in four years
A new report compiled with information from Freedom of Information requests shows that UK local authorities have spent more than half a billion pounds on CCTV surveillance cameras in the last four years.
It is confirmed: The Pirate Bay is a pirate
Following its legal success against Newzbin, the music industry has won its second major UK court victory: this time against The Pirate Bay.
Is ignorance bliss? Majority of employees don't know or follow IT security policies
More than half of employees said they do not always follow their company’s IT security policies or are not even aware of those policies, according to a survey sponsored by McAfee and Xerox.
Health and Safety inspector loses details of Hartlepool nuclear power plant
Another day, another lost memory stick: this one with details of a UK nuclear power station including plans and a stress test lost in India.
Labour’s Intercept Modernisation Programme V2
The UK Government is renewing its plans to retain internet and mobile phone traffic data on everyone for a year.
Google fixes more flaws in Chrome
Google is again fixing flaws in its Chrome browser only a week after plugging 20 security holes with the release of version 17.
CIA provides funding for platform to find malware in binary code
The US Central Intelligence Agency’s private sector research funding arm, In-Q-Tel (IQT), is investing in technology to analyze binary code in order to uncover malware.
Valve lets off some Steam about online gaming data breach
Hackers likely downloaded encrypted credit card transaction information from a backup database of Steam online game distribution platform users, Valve announced recently.
LEA intervention on the internet may encourage ransomware
Visitors to the rnbxclusive website are met with a stern rebuke from a UK LEA. Italian Windows users can receive a similar rebuke from the Polizia. Only one is genuine.
Adobe ships zero-day vulnerability patch for Flash Player
Hot on the heels of its Shockwave and Robohelp patches, Adobe has issued a patch for seven critical flaws in its Flash Player, including a zero-day universal cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Anonymous mischief continues: US stock exchanges face DDoS attacks
The hacktivist group Anonymous launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of major stock exchanges this week, continuing its reign of information security mischief.
Cyberwar between India and Bangladesh escalates
Bangladeshi hackers have been hacking Indian sites, and Indian hackers have been hacking Bangladeshi sites. Now it is escalating as each side calls for ‘cyberwar’ against the other.
WikiLeaks denounces its exclusion from UNESCO conference
WikiLeaks has denounced UNESCO for refusing to allow it to speak at a conference being held at UNESCO HQ in Paris today and tomorrow. The conference is called 'The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World.'
Local government discloses employee social security numbers
A response to a freedom of information law request by the City of Rye, N.Y., has exposed the social security numbers of city employees.
