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• 23 June 2011

• News: Police National Database launched

  The Police National Database of up to 15 million criminals, suspects and victims has been switched on.

• Opinion: How to Stop Hack Attacks In One Easy Step: Whitelisting

  Anonymous, LulzSec, and others have demonstrated time and time again over the past few months that hacking networks and compromising data is mere child's play. Does that mean there is nothing we can do, and that organizations should just accept inadequate security? No. At least one security expert believes that the answer to defending networks and data against the rise in attacks is simple--whitelisting.

• News: AT&T iPad hacker pleads guilty

  A 26-year-old man who last year helped hackers publish personal information belonging to about 120,000 iPad users pleaded guilty to fraud and hacking charges in a New Jersey court Thursday.

• News: Feds claim victory over Coreflood botnet

  Federal authorities have declared victory over the Coreflood botnet and shut down the replacement server that the FBI used to issue commands to infected PCs.

• News: Ukraine helps disrupt $72M Conficker hacking ring

  Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008.

• News: Anonymous, LulzSec bring bragging rights back to hacking, CTO says

  Hactivist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec hearken back to earlier days when Web attacks were done for bragging rights, not profits, says the new CTO of incident-response, forensics company Mandiant.

• News: UK court rules LulzSec hacker to remain in police custody

  A 19-year-old British man who remains the lone suspect detained for a series of successful cyberstrikes by the hacking group Lulz Security will remain in police custody until at least Saturday, a London court ruled Thursday.

• News: Tesco Bank issues online customers new guidance

  Tesco Bank, which has seen many customers unable to access their accounts all week following a technical upgrade, has issued emergcency guidance on how to make a popular browser work on its website.

• News: India has issued 9.5 million digital identity numbers

  India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.

• News: Ukraine disrupts $72M Conficker hacking ring

  Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008.

• Feature: This week's top stories on PC Advisor - technology news, reviews and tips, 23/06/2011

  PC Advisor editors pick the week's best technology news, reviews, tips and tricks

• News: Nvidia stock inside trader found guilty

  A former hedge fund consultant has been found guilty of inside trading, after selling information around Nvidia shares and other technology stock ahead of official announcements.

• News: FBI hits Latvian scareware peddlers who infected 1 million

  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken aim at two Latvian gangs that allegedly made tens of millions of dollars by sneaking fake virus warnings onto victims' computers and then charging them to clean up the mess.

• News: Update: Feds bust international gangs distributing scareware products

  U.S. federal law enforcement authorities working in cooperation with their counterparts in more than 10 countries have disrupted the operations of two gangs responsible for distributing malicious scareware programs to more than 1 million people.

• 22 June 2011

• News: Hack Attacks Escalating? Here's a Reality Check

  Hack attacks from online thugs such as Anonymous and LulzSec appear to signal a hacker Armageddon. Not only has Sony been relentlessly targeted by hackers this year so has the Central Intelligence Agency, Sega, PBS.com, the U.K. government, and dozens of other high-profile company and government agency Web sites.

• How-Tos: Password management systems: How to compare and use them

  With username and password prompts coming at users with every personal and professional login, every once in a while they're bound to forget which combinations go with which access requests.

• News: Spot and Avoid Facebook Scams

  "There's a sucker born every minute." That quotation, widely attributed to P.T. Barnum, originally referred to deceptive carnival sideshow attractions, but it's just as relevant to online scams--in particular, Facebook scams--today.

• News: Find a Lost iPhone: Putting Tracking Apps to the Test

  We can't stupid-proof ourselves to prevent losing the car keys or the TV clicker, but when it comes to our iPhone, a glimmer of hope exists. Apps that claim to track your iPhone, sound a remote alarm, or lock up your data from afar could save your bacon when your precious phone goes missing. But do they really work? If they do, how well? And how much will it cost to track down your missing iPhone--when it could simply be buried between two sofa cushions?

• News: Ponemon study: Cyber attacks more frequent, severe

  Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and severe, and the vast majority of businesses have suffered at least one data breach in the past year, a Ponemon Institute survey says.

• News: LulzSec: Brits nabbed someone 'mildly associated with us'

  The hacker group LulzSec says the British teen arrested in connection with its attack on a police agency's Web site was not an active member of the group.

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