Infosecurity News
Hackers, the UK intelligence service is looking for you!
Hackers who want a job with the UK government’s GCHQ intelligence service need to crack a code to get an interview.
Global cybersecurity spending to top $60 billion this year
Global cybersecurity spending is predicted to total $60 billion this year and to grow 10% per year for the next three to five years.
Pre-2009 HP printers vulnerable to hackers, say researchers
A security flaw found in, but not necessarily limited to, HP printers can be exploited by hackers to take full control of printer functions, according to researchers at Columbia University.
Trusteer warns that cybercriminals are moving into fresh one-stop crime areas
Research published today by Trusteer claims to show cybercriminals have widened the services they provide as a one-stop-shop to third-party fraudsters.
PCI DSS can provide information security roadmap for cloud computing
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) are basic information security practices that can be applied to the cloud environment in the same way as traditional environments, said Tabatha Greiner, executive consultant for global PCI quality assurance with Verizon.
Breach at Korean gamer Nexon exposes data on 13 million subscribers
A data breach at South Korean online gamer Nexon has exposed personal information on 13 million subscribers.
Lyceum Capital acquires Clearswift
Lyceum Capital, a private equity firm, has increased the total amount spent on IT industry investment this year to more than £100 million with the acquisition of data security vendor Clearswift.
ICO dishes out some of first public sector fines against two councils
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed some of its first fines against public bodies after staff with North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients.
Four people arrested in connection with US terrorist-funded PBX hacking
The FBI has revealed that four hackers were arrested in the Philippines last week in connection with an organized attack on the clients of telecoms giant AT&T in the US. Newswire reports suggest that the hacker crew was funded by terrorists linked to an Al Qaeda group that carried out the Bali bombings in 2002 and which killed 202 people.
Kingston Technology says that secure encrypted USB sticks are no longer enough
Research carried out by Kingston Technology claims to show that purchasing secure and encrypted USB sticks is no longer enough to defend data within a company environment.
Acuity releases free PCI DSS compliance analysis software
Acuity has taken the wraps off a free PCI DSS compliance analysis application that can be downloaded from its web site. The software is billed as being able to identify, assess, manage and report on risks to cardholder data.
BEAST-driven SSL attack not as bad as it seems claims Context
Researchers at Context Information Security are playing down the level of risk to enterprises caused by the BEAST - Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS – that was identified by researchers in late September.
Solera head researcher slams malware authors for “lazy, repetitive malware scams”
The director of security research with Solera Networks has called malware authors “mal-slackers” for their “lazy repetitive malware scams” they have created for this US Thanksgiving.
ISF publishes guide on risk-free Federated Identity & Access Management
The Information Security Forum (ISF) has published a new report on Federated Identity and Access Management that describes the methodology that IT security professionals need to adopt when implementing the technology into their systems.
Symantec reports one-click fraud has arrived on smartphones
Do you want the good news, or the bad news first? The bad news is that one-click fraud has, at long last, arrived on smartphones. The good news (unless you live in Japan) is that the frauds are focused on Japanese language users of mobile phones.
Fake iTunes updates demolish the idea that Apple iOS is secure
The long-held belief that the Apple iOS platform is inherently secure due to Apple’s walled garden approach to software has been holed once again, this time by a security firm that has developed a method of sending Fake iTunes and Flash updates to iPhone and iPad users.
Websense slams Motorola Android ad campaign on security grounds
Websense has slammed the latest ad campaign from Motorola for its Droid Razr smartphone, citing the fact that the Android platform is secure.
Lieberman Software president warns on silent update feature being developed for Firefox 10
Mozilla is reported to be making inroads on adding a silent update mechanism to its popular Firefox desktop web browse, and plans to integrate the new service into Firefox 10 early next year, although this timeframe may slip a few months, the open source organization says.
Prolexic mitigates world's largest packet-per-second DDoS attack
Prolexic Technologies claims that it has successfully mitigated what it claims was the world's largest DDoS attack in packets-per-second (PPS) terms - 69 million packets-per-second and with an amazing 45 Gbps of traffic.
Know your enemy: Staying one-step ahead of cyberthreats
Advanced intelligence capabilities are crucial for organizations to stay one step ahead of cyberthreats, advised Rick Howard, general manager of VeriSign iDefense.
