Infosecurity News
Row breaks out over alleged Chip and PIN security flaw censorship
A row that has been brewing between the payment card 'establishment' and researchers with Cambridge University, who have previously claimed that the Chip & PIN security system seen in UK bank payment cards is flawed, has spilled out into the open.
Phoenix exploit hacker kit methodology explained
Websense has posted a detailed analysis of the Phoenix Exploit kit, which is used by hackers to seed and infect users' PCs across the internet, and then monitor the results for data harvesting.
Husband faces five years in jail for hacking wife’s email account
Computer technician Leon Walker faces five years in jail for hacking into his wife’s email account to confirm suspicions that she was having an affair with her ex-husband.
Mozilla admits to possible leak of user information
Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, admitted that it accidentally posted sensitive information about the users of its addons.mozilla.org site to a public web server.
Germany to set up cyber defense center in response to growing threats
Because of a major increase in cyber attacks this year, the German government plans to set up a national cyber defense center in 2011.
BAE to buy Danish cybersecurity firm ETI for $212 million
British defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire ETI A/S, a Danish cybersecurity firm, for approximately $212 million.
Incoming House speaker taps Thornberry to lead cybersecurity initiative
Incoming Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), has tapped Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) to lead a cybersecurity initiative in the next Congress.
VA facilities violate prohibition on using online tools to share patient data
A number of VA facilities have violated the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prohibition on using online tools to share patients’ information among facilities.
$4.99 256-bit encrypted VOIP application arrives on the iPhone
Although military-grade encrypted VOIP software for the iPhone has been around for while, the highly specialised software has been quite expensive, typically running into three figures. Now a Florida-based firm has released a 256-bit encrypt VOIP app for the iPhone costing just $4.99.
FTC clears $7.7bn Intel acquisition of McAfee
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Intel's $7.7bn acquisition of security software giant, McAfee.
BitTorrent links with BitDefender for integrated IT app security
IT security software vendor BitDefender has linked up with peer-to-peer data development company BitTorrent – which developed the file-sharing protocol of the same name – to offer the 80 million estimated users of the protocol an integrated malware detection service.
Inadvertent data disclosure by employees poses growing risk
Inadvertent disclose of sensitive information by well-meaning workers will pose the greatest information security threat to organizations in the coming year, according to Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy at Ipswitch.
Google says sorry, deletes all UK Street View WiFi data
Google has deleted all UK payload data collected by its Street View cars from unsecured British WiFi networks, the company has confirmed.
DARPA develops technology to prevent surprise cyberattacks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undertaking a number of cybersecurity research and development projects for the Department of Defense designed to prevent surprise cyberattacks.
Bredolab botnet revealed by Kaspersky Lab analyst
Kaspersky Lab's malware analyst Alexei Kadiev has posted an interesting analysis on how the Bredolab botnet – which infected around 30 million PCs at its height – functioned.
Symantec researcher spots C&C botnet toolkit in the wild
Security researchers from Symantec claim to have spotted a new crimeware toolkit being sold in the underground marketplace. The toolkit – known as Dream Loader – generates a trojan that is exclusively used to distribute malware.
Hotmail tries to plug phishing with Active Views
Hotmail is claiming it can now tackle its biggest security issues with a way to send and receive active e-mail messages.
Imperva CEO says DRM and cloud security will be key defences against rising cyberthreats in 2011
Shlomo Kramer is well known in the IT security industry for being a co-founder of Check Point and, more recently, has been CEO/president of data security specialist Imperva. Infosecurity caught up with him in London this week for his observations – and predictions – on what will be the main IT security threats in 2011.
Facebook intros automated photo-tagging; creates social networking risk says security researcher
A new feature on Facebook is, at the very least, questionable, and may even be a social networking risk, says a leading IT security researcher.
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