Security - News
- Gag order lifted against MIT students
- The Princeton Review offers up over 100,000 student records
- 92,095 credit applicants exposed (Brief)
- PCI DSS: What to expect in October
- Consumer Reports - Reviews gone wild
- Is no news good news when it comes to e-mail?
- Symantec acquires PC Tools
- BitDefender releases Total Security 2009
- Brief: New SQLi attack making the rounds online
- Black Hat: Symantec releases security survey results
- UFO hacker McKinnon granted U.S. extradition reprieve
- Microsoft offers largest set of vulnerability patches to date
- Bypassing Browser Memory Protections – The world is not ending
- Next Gen AV demonstrated by researchers – meet at CloudAV
- ZoneAlarm ForceField offered on Patch Tuesday free of charge
- Insider arrested in relation to Countrywide data theft
- Kaminsky covers DNS at Black Hat – patch now or suffer
- Conspiracy! Eleven charged in massive bust related to ID theft and hacking
- Four years in jail for Webcam peeping tom
- TSA blocks ‘Clear’ after laptop and personal information discovered missing
- Microsoft offers MAPP – is this a false sense of security?
- IT teams count down to Olympic Games
- NovaShield attempts to bridge 19-day exposure window
- Neosploit attack project closed down
- ID Analytics releases 'Analysis of Internal Data Theft'
- More than 89% of security incidents went unreported in 2007
- Apple (finally) pushes out DNS patch
- Upset Scrabulous players blamed in failure of EA’s Scrabble
- The creative subjects of botnet blasted e-mails
- Phishing kits steal from customers
- China plans to bug hotels says U.S. Senator
- McKinnon loses his appeal in extradition case
- AT&T first reported victim of DNS attack – HD Moore was NOT “Pwned”
- Oracle breaks patch cycle offers fix for vulnerability rated 10 on CVSS
- Kaminsky DNS flaw used as an example in testing of Evilgrade
- Companies and ISPs still not patched against Kaminsky DNS vulnerability
- Walkabout spammer dead after murdering family
- Trojan promises full evasion of security for a fee
- Does open-source software mean instant security problems?
- Privacy and Kids – Do you feel safe?
- Spammer literally walks out of prison
- RIM offers critical patch for BlackBerry (Brief)
- Pwnie Awards: The nominees are in
- Kaminsky DNS flaw details made public
- Open-source tool helps track stolen laptops
- Firefox 3 ties itself to Internet Explorer security settings
- NXP loses injunction bid – Oyster card hack to be disclosed
- Symark announces PowerKeeper 3.0
- Ego-driven administrator takes city network hostage (Update)
- Malware and Spam still appearing in abundance (Report round-up)
- Ego-driven administrator takes city network hostage
- Teen escapes botnet conviction but might help police
- United Healthcare employee charged in ID theft case
- Mozilla releases Firefox 2.0.16 (Update) -- 3.0.1 released
- Mozilla releases Firefox 2.0.16 (Brief)
- Chinese net cafés targeted in Malware blitz
- Norton offers testing on 2009 products via public beta
- Trojan spreads to multimedia files over P2P
- Wireshark University launches cert program
- Homer p0wn3d -- loses e-mail account to bot herders
- EuroPriSe awards the first European Privacy Seal to a search engine
- McAfee vamps Total Protection for Endpoint – adds NAC to the mix
- U.S. Army Invades Iran and other worthless news
- Julie Amero still stuck in limbo waiting for new trial
- Apple allows apparent Lolcat access to ADC account
- NXP sues academic research team - what are they afraid of?
- Commtouch releases Q2 2008 trend report
- Google offers remote information and control for Gmail
- Gmail wants to phight Phishing with DKIM
- DNS vulnerability gets massive patch – FUD spreading as masses panic
- Criminals harvesting information from recruiting sites
- Fortune 500 lacking in email spoofing basics
- Microsoft has some “Important” fixes for today
- Microsoft issues warning about ActiveX exploit
- Data leaks are still a top concern
- Mozilla wants to measure Firefox security metrics
- Firefox 2.0.0.15 is released – Mozilla fixes 12 issues (Brief)
- McAfee releases results to S.P.A.M. experiment
- Google releases ratproxy, passive security assessment tool
- Sony PlayStation’s site hit with SQL Injection
- Internet Explorer 8 security features outlined
- Texas law requires PC repair techs to carry a PI license
- Report: Data breach reports up almost 70% in 2008
- Companies Team up to create Information Cards
- More than 600M users are surfing at risk study says
- WatchGuard launches NextGen UTM security
- Marshal offers automation for e-mail encryption
- WoW gets two-factor authentication
- Mac OS X 10.5.4 offers performance and security improvements
- Dell launches notebook security services
- Report: UK Businesses need privacy help
- Today's the day! PCI DSS section 6.6 is required
- Microsoft releases patch for SP3 restoring internet connections
- What does the ICANN and IANA hijacking mean?
- Internet Explorer suffers from ghost issues
- Ruby creators warn everyone about flaws -- issue fixes
- Microsoft offers some advice and tools for taking on SQLi
- Adobe issues security alert (Brief)
- Chinese networks are the cause for most Malware
- Opinion: Recent Apple flaw sparks news cycle debate
- Website defacement alters police news releases
- Government computers offered for sale held confidential information
- Recent MSRT update discovers mind-boggling infection numbers
- Microsoft still has patching issues (Brief)
- France wants three-strike law for downloaders
- Apple Remote Desktop Agent exploit caught in wild
- Study: IT professionals abuse position to snoop on co-workers
- Teens busted for hacking – Script kiddie tools make things too easy
- Cisco addresses Denial-of-Service issues in Cisco IPS
- Medical data the next big thing in stolen information
- Report: 80% of endpoints fail compliance test
- Firefox 3 – first vulnerability discovered in 24 hours
- Malware caused kiddie porn investigation reveals
- Zlob variant teaches lesson
- Flawed logic means risky business
- Pentagon hacker battles US extradition
- PCI DSS: Section 6.6 gets teeth – finally
- China accused of hacking US government computers
- Capitol Computers hacked by Chinese – allegedly
- It could have been prevented – Data security failures highlight Verizon study
- Tool: Tripwire ConfigCheck
- CitectSCADA: Software flaw places utilities at risk
- Yahoo drops added email security to fix tech problem
- Apple and Cisco each release patches
- Top security companies not immune to XSS problems
- Microsoft issues seven fixes total on Patch Tuesday
- Compromises on legit websites are up according to ScanSafe
- Symantec offers XP SP3 fix
- Site Security Policy
- Opera joins the user protection arena
- Issue in HP support application offers more than just help
- Gpcode gets bigger and better with 1024-bit key
- ARP poisoning proves new dogs still vulnerable to old tricks
- Five vulnerabilities discovered in Cisco PIX and ASA (Brief)
- HK TLD ranked as most dangerous online
- WiredSafety wants to help kids stay safe online
- MySpace: It wasn’t our fault, blame Yahoo
- Gartner IT Security Summit: Voltage teams-up with Websense
- Bank of New York Mellon Corp. loses millions of records
- BT Home Hub still has some issues
- Firekeeper: IDS/IPS for Firefox
- Hackers throw Comcast into disarray
- Microsoft takes the stance Apple wouldn’t – declares ‘carpet bomb’ a security issue
- Symantec backs down from initial reports of vulnerabilities in Flash
- VMware patches critical issues
- Criminals moving thousands in Credit/Debit Card crimes
- Apple drops motherload of fixes and updates – 40 security fixes issued
- Q: What’s on the minds of IT Directors? A: Fear
- Check Point offers FDE for Mac OS X
- CiscoWorks broken – vulnerability exposed and patched
- Man cons investment firms out of $50,000 – pennies at a time
- Malicious SWF files located in the wild (Brief)
- Yahoo sues lottery spammers
- Business owners have false hopes when it comes to data loss
- FBI issues Wi-Fi warning – with a little drama to make you think
- SonicWALL issues firmware upgrade for SSL-VPN (Brief)
- TJX fires whistleblower – was it justified action or something else? (Update)
- RIM will not offer backdoor to Indian government
- TJX fires whistleblower – was it justified action or something else?
- Security Bytes 2008/24/05
