Infosecurity News
Stanford Hospital faces $20 million lawsuit over patient data breach
A class-action lawsuit for $20 million has been filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics over a patient data breach in which personal information on 20,000 emergency room patients was posted on a public website for a year.
Check Point introduces blades to tackle botnets
Check Point has taken the wraps off its 33rd software blade technology, which is an anti-botnet platform designed to counter the problems of botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
£30 graphics card can brute-force crack any eight character password in just four hours
A £30 graphics card can now process as many as 158 million passwords a second
Plusnet migrates anti-spam systems to Cloudmark
Plusnet, the Sheffield-based ISP, has announced it is migrating its several million customers from their existing IronPort based anti-spam / anti-virus email security platform and over to a new solution provided by Cloudmark.
Weather report: Cloudy, with a chance of data leakage
Almost half of organizations said their IT staffs are not ready to adopt the cloud, with data security cited as a top concern, according to survey sponsored by Symantec.
Betfair security chief leaves in wake of data breach publicity
Hard on the heels of reports that data on Betfair's 3m-plus customer base had been hacked by cybercriminals in the Far East, reports are now saying that the the betting exchange's security chief has left the company.
Vodafone New Zealand's international net access hit by DDoS attack
The interconnected nature of the global internet was highlighted earlier this week when a DDoS attack on a Californian company also downed Vodafone New Zealand's international web access.
Earl Eugene Schultz: 10 September 1946 – 2 October 2011
It it with deep regret that Infosecurity has to report that Eugene Schultz – arguably one of the founding figures of the IT security industry – passed away on Sunday after a short illness.
McAfee joins SIEM buying spree by snapping up NitroSecurity
Another primarily SIEM firm is about to fall off the radar, as McAfee announced plans to purchase security information and event management (SIEM) provider NitroSecurity.
Academic tenure stifles cybersecurity innovation, academic and entrepreneur warns
Academic tenure discourages educational investment in cybersecurity innovation, Paul Barford, a computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the chief scientist at cloud security specialist Qualys, told the Security Innovation Network (SINET) summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday.
Big day at IBM – acquires SIEM vendor Q1 Labs, establishes new security division
Today IBM made two announcements regarding its security business: the planned purchase of Q1 Labs and its intent to establish the IBM Security Systems division.
East Surrey Hospital loses details of 800 patients on an insecure USB stick
The East Surrey Hospital has admitted it lost the details of around 800 patients on unencrypted memory stick in September of last year. The revelation was made in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust's annual report.
Large-scale spam campaigns lead to online banking heists
According to security researcher Brian Krebs, phishers and cybercriminals have been casting an unusually wide net of late, sending out huge volumes of fraudulent email designed to spread password-stealing banking trojans. And, he reports, judging from the number of victims that have reportedly costly cyberheists in the past two weeks, many small to medium sized organizations have been taking the bait.
OnStar shifts into reverse over data collection from former customers
General Motors’ OnStar navigation and emergency services provider has reversed itself and decided not to continue to collect data from vehicles of former OnStar subscribers.
Qualys backs Marlinspike-inspired Convergence notaries
Cloud security specialist Qualys is supporting two Convergence notaries, based on an approach developed by security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, as an alternative to SSLs and certificate authorities (CAs).
ISPs would notify consumers about botnet infections under US proposal
The US Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce are seeking public comments on a proposed voluntary program under which Internet service providers (ISPs) would notify users when their computers have been infected by botnet malware.
Close to 5 million US military patient records stolen from contractor
Medical records of 4.9 million US military personnel and their families have been compromised as a result of a theft of backup tapes from an SAIC contractor’s car in San Antonio, Texas.
Iran threatens to reciprocate any US, UK and Israeli cyber-attacks
The war of words between the US and Iranian governments took a dark turn last week when an Iranian army chief – apparently responding to comments from US military chiefs' previous threats of an internet war – said that Iran will respond to any form of online aggression in a reciprocal manner.
Trend spots malware hidden within rogue copies of Opera Mini Java edition
A Trend Micro fraud analyst claims to have spotted rogue versions of Opera Mini, a Java (jar) mobile phone browser that can be downloaded and used on a wide number of mobile phones.
Betfair loses data on more than three million customers to hackers
Betfair has apparently admitted that data on more than three million of its customers – including 2.9 user names and almost 90,000 bank account details – was hacked by cybercriminals, possibly from Cambodia.
