Latest Security News

17 September 2013
News: Security researchers create undetectable hardware trojans

Security researchers from the U.S. and Europe released a paper showing how integrated circuits used in computers, military equipment and other critical systems can be maliciously compromised during the manufacturing process through virtually undetectable changes at the transistor level.
News: Protect your business from Web celebs

Miley Cyrus is dangerous. That's not a commentary on her music. It isn't even an indictment of her recent twerking antics at the MTV Video Music Awards. Miley Cyrus is one of the most dangerous Web celebrities when it comes to cyber threats according to the McAfee 2013 Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity report.
News: Zettaset working toward Big Data encryption for Hadoop

Zettaset, which makes management and security software for Hadoop, says it plans to add encryption capabilities by year end.
News: Space storms causing satellite failures that blunt Internet and TVs

Space weather, like solar flares and geomagnetic storms, are knocking out satellites that people rely on to check out their Facebook pages, to tweet and to watch TV.
News: Government to test location-based mobile alerts to warn public of emergencies

The government has announced plans to test location-based mobile alerts that could be used to inform the public of imminent emergencies.
News: EnergyAustralia customers targeted with scam email

Utility firm EnergyAustralia has warned customers about a scam email which claims that their electricity payment was declined by their bank.
News: Mevade botnet miscalculated effect on Tor network, says Damballa

The migration of the 'Mevade' botnet to use the Tor anonymity network was most likely a botched attempt to hide that has ended up having the opposite effect, security firm Damballa has speculated.
News: Netfix plumbs pirate sites before buying TV shows

Making content choices based on what's popular on pirate sites makes perfect marketing sense to some media watchers
News: Proposed changes to WHOIS system called 'extremely disquieting'

ICANN plan for closed domain name record system criticized over putting too much power into one group's hands
News: HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service

HP today took the wraps off its Next-Generation Firewall line designed to exert application-level controls and visibility over all traffic related to the enterprise, including mobile devices used in public WiFi settings and traffic from cloud services.
News: Google now lets you change your password remotely on an Android device

Google has begun rolling out an update to its Google Play Services that includes the ability to remotely change your phone unlock password--a major addition since the search giant released the Android Device Manager last month. Now you'll be able to lock your Android phone remotely, rather than having to completely wipe it before you can get to it.
16 September 2013
News: NSA monitored global financial transactions, report says

A branch of the NSA has been collecting global financial data, including credit card transactions and data from SWIFT, which runs an international bank messaging system, according to a report Sunday from Der Spiegel.
News: Security company says Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix XSS flaw

A Swiss security company said the Nasdaq website had a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability for two weeks before being fixed on Monday, despite earlier warnings.
14 September 2013
News: Consumer ignorance drives big jump in medical ID fraud

Medical records contaminated by the perpetrator 'could actually have severe impact,' says study's sponsor, Medical Identity Fraud Alliance
News: NAB phishing email emerges

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has warned customers about an email scam which claims that access to their account is restricted.
13 September 2013
News: USB 'condom' protects your dongle from infected ports

Plugging into strange ports can get you into trouble. So why not carry around a layer of protection?
News: Police foil attempt to steal millions from bank using remote control KVM device

The Metropolitan Police have foiled an extraordinary plot to steal millions of pounds from a London branch of Santander Bank using a remote control device planted on one of its computers by a bogus maintenance man.
News: Surveillance court orders transparency review of its NSA opinions

A U.S. surveillance court has ordered government agencies to review the court's own opinions related to the legality of a massive telephone records collection program at the U.S. National Security Agency in preparation for possible publication of those opinions.
News: Francis Maude launches cyber scholarship for Indian professionals

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude told delegates at the ORF Auditorium in India this week that the UK is open for business and that a cyber-security scholarship for Indian residents has been launched at Cranfield University, so as to encourage collaboration between the two nations.
News: New Java feature aims to manage multiple version problems

Admins now can link apps to a specific version of programming language