Infosecurity News
Europeans store sensitive details on mobiles despite losses, survey shows
About one third of European smartphone users store credentials to access personal and corporate e-mail on their mobiles, a survey has revealed.
RFID credit cards are more secure than magnetic strip cards, says ITRC
Credit cards with RFID chips provide more data security than cards with magnetic strips, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
Chronopay being tapped for scareware frauds says researcher
The Russian Chronopay electronic payments system is increasingly being used by scamsters behind fake anti-virus software and 'scareware' applications, says a leading IT security researcher.
Illicit activity on Twitter soared by 20% during 2010
Research just released by Barracuda Networks claims to show that the crime rate on Twitter soared by 20% last year, after a quiet period in the latter part of 2009.
Accreditation body revises HIPAA data privacy and security standards
URAC, a nonprofit healthcare accreditation organization, has revised its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security standards.
DroidDream trojan is a nightmare for thousands of Android users
Google has removed 55 apps from its Android Market after tens of thousands of users downloaded applications that were infected by the DroidDream trojan, according to numerous news reports.
RPost sues Swiss Post for allegedly infringing on proof, privacy and electronic signature patents
An interesting lawsuit has popped up with California's RPost, a secure email firm, filing a request for an injunction through the Swiss courts over an alleged breach of its technology patents.
Businesses bear the responsibility for blame with phishing attacks claims Imperva director
Rob Rachwald, Imperva's security director, says that his company is adding hackers to the old Benjamin Franklin adage that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Dutch anti-piracy site suffers DDoS attack
Hacktivists seem to have learned a lot from the WikiLeaks/Anonymous attacks seen in recent months, as an automated DDoS attack has reportedly frozen access to BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy web portal.
iPhone, iPad to get Android-like gesture security lock screen?
One of the features that Apple may reveal later today when it – as is widely expected, launches the iPad 2 – will be an Android-like pattern lock screen for iOS, the operating system of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Cybercrime complaints are second highest in decade, says IC³
Complaints lodged with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC³) totaled 303,809 in 2010, the second highest level in the center’s 10-year history.
Google blames software update for Gmail failure
Google has blamed a bug in a storage software update for weekend interruptions to its Gmail service in which thousands of users lost e-mail contacts and folders.
iPhone cracking competition criticised by three-time winner
The simmering row between security experts and white hat hackers over so-called cracking contests has boiled over, with the organisers of the Pwn2Own competition – which opens on 9 March in Vancouver – defending their role in the industry.
Essex police track iPhone thief using on-handset app
Police in Essex are urging iPhone users to install and register a 'Find my iPhone' app on their mobiles, following the successful recovery of a woman's phone late last month using the software.
Latest Mac malware warning gets no love
A new piece of malware targeting the Mac has been identified by security firm Sophos, as the developer believed to have created a similar trojan for Windows denies having any hand in the Mac-based version.
Ernst & Young Security Testing Centre Evolves With Industry
Information security testing needs to be done in a real-world environment, tested by the most technically advanced minds in the world. According to the Ernst & Young information security services team, they have it all under one roof at their Advanced Security Centre in Houston, Texas.
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, while the other – SW.Qieting – auto-forwards messages to a remote number.
Texas man acknowledges hack of NASA computers
A 26-year-old man from Houston plead guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges last week in a case involving the 2008–09 breach of a Minnesota-based company. In a separate incident, however, he will apparently avoid criminal charges for accessing two NASA servers.
UPDATE: Stolen network equipment causes Vodafone UK network outage
The theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network.
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.
