Latest Security News
- 24 May 2012
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News: LulzSec MilitarySingles data breach caused by weak security
The major LulzSec data raid on the MilitarySingles.com dating site in March was caused by a catalogue of security problems including poor web application design and the use of weak encryption, an analysis from Imperva has claimed.
- 23 May 2012
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News: Malware Threat Level Hits 4-Year High
Surfing the Internet is becoming more dangerous than ever, according to a report released Wednesday by cyber security software maker McAfee.
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News: McAfee reports big spike in malware
PC malware had its "busiest quarter in recent history," according to McAfee's quarterly security report released Wednesday.
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News: Cloudforce: News International trusts customer data to the cloud
Newspaper publisher News International is using cloud-based solutions from Salesforce.com. CloudSense and Zuora to fulfil product orders, monitor customer preferences and process payments.
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News: Bredolab botnet author sentenced to 4 years in prison in Armenia
The creator of the Bredolab malware received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia on Monday for using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that damaged multiple computer systems owned by private individuals and organizations.
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News: 'Clueless' boards risk lawsuits, threaten national security
Energy/utilities sector ranks last on four of the best practices for cybersecurity, report exposes
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News: Intel launches cloud-based single sign-on service
Listed on AppExchange, Cloud SSO has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com applications
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News: Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints
Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Microsoft handles requests for blurring of images, the company said on Tuesday.
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News: Facebook and physicians: Not good medicine
Physicians who use social networks to share clinical experiences risk violating patient privacy. A niche industry of private social network providers has cropped up to address the desire to communicate.
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News: Anonymous claims it hacked a DOJ site
The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday it was looking into the unauthorized access of a website server in its statistics wing, after hacker group Anonymous claimed to have collected and released 1.7GB of data from it.
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News: Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data
An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.
- 22 May 2012
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News: New Ways to Track You via Your Mobile Devices: Big Brother or Good Business?
Privacy fans, take note: A new technology, called Indoor Positioning System, could push your worry meter to the max. IPS allows pinpoint tracking of any Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smartphone or tablet, within a building. This means that an IPS service could easily track you--right down to, say, the table you're occupying in a mall's food court--as long as your mobile devices' Wi-Fi is turned on. And, if you're a typical device user, your Wi-Fi is always on, right?
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News: Updated SDK from Soti allows businesses to remotely control Apple mobile devices
Businesses can now remotely control enterprise mobile applications developed for Apple's mobile platform with the latest version of Soti's MobiControl Software Developer Kit for iOS, announced Tuesday.
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News: Windows Vista infection rates climb, says Microsoft
Microsoft said that a skew toward more exploits on Windows Vista can be attributed to the demise of support for the operating system's first service pack.
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News: New Nmap probes IPv6 networks
Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques.
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News: Banking malware monitors victims by hijacking webcams and microphones, researchers say
A new variant of SpyEye malware allows cybercriminals to monitor potential bank fraud victims by hijacking their webcams and microphones, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab.
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News: Banks warned of sophisticated new online scam
Trusteer expects malware used to attack several German bank sites to be reconfigured for banks in other countries
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News: New White House cybersecurity chief largely an unknown
Former OMB intelligence chief Michael Daniel will take over as the debate over CISPA, for example, heats up
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News: Security vulnerability reporting framework upgraded for reserchers
The security industry’s Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) framework for reporting and sharing security vulnerabilities in a machine-readable format has been given a promised revamp to make it easier to use for third-party researchers.
- 21 May 2012
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News: After attack causes delay, Voyager low-cost mobile service goes live
Voyager Mobile, the startup that had planned to launch last Tuesday but said it was delayed by an attack on its website, went live on Sunday with an unlimited voice, text and data plan for US$39 per month.
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