Latest Security News

• 17 May 2013

• News: Texas drone bill sparks a battle

  The battle to find a balance between privacy concerns and the beneficial use of drones for commercial and law enforcement purposes is in sharp focus in a bill that's winding its way through the Texas legislature.

• News: Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges

  Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

• News: Nation's critical infrastructure cyber defenses weak, DHS tells hearing

  Experts criticize government's threat sharing, noting it wants the private sector to be generous but it's stingy with the private sector

• News: Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy

  Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.

• News: Researchers uncover new global cyberespionage operation dubbed SafeNet

  Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered an active cyberespionage operation that so far has compromised computers belonging to government ministries, technology companies, media outlets, academic research institutions and nongovernmental organizations from over 100 countries.

• News: Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk

  Experts say large-scale security analytics can cut through the noise to find key intelligence. But connecting the dots can lead to legal trouble

• News: Experts ding DHS vulnerability sharing plan as too limited

  Without universally availability, plan could miss smaller businesses hackers could use as an entry point to critical infrastructure companies

• News: LulzSec members sent to prison for infamous DDoS attacks

  Four members of the infamous and largely British LulzSec hacking group that carried a string of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2011 have been handed relatively lenient prison terms of up to 32 months by the judge at Southwark Crown Court.

• News: Australian eHealth messaging trial a success

  A successful eHealth trial of secure message delivery means Australian healthcare professionals will soon be able to share clinical information through online messaging.

• News: Telstra apologises after customer records appear online

  Telstra has issued a formal apology to affected customers after phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.

• News: Remains of the Day: Where in the world?

  Mr. Cook goes to Washington, an Apple Store grows in San Francisco, and Mac spyware turns up in Norway. The remainders for Thursday, May 16, 2013, are going global.

• News: New Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer

  Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.

• News: In a sea of malware, viruses make a small comeback

  The computer virus seems to be making a subtle comeback.

• News: GPs open to sharing patient information, says survey

  A survey of general practices' attitudes to the use of information technology shows that most are open to sharing patient information provided that appropriate security and privacy measures are in place.

• 16 May 2013

• News: Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

  Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

• News: Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK

  Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011.

• News: Pushdo botnet is evolving, becomes more resilient to takedown attempts

  Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts.

• News: Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace

  In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud

• News: Internet Explorer 10 blocks more malware than Chrome or Firefox, test finds

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 is better at blocking malware downloads than rivals Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera thanks to superior URL and application reputation technology, a new test by NSS Labs has found.

• News: Information security still lacking at WA universities: report

  Little progress has been made with securing Western Australia universities and TAFEs against cyber security attacks, according to the Audit Results Report 2012 tabled by Western Australian Auditor General, Colin Murphy.

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