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10 May 2013
News: Bill would put mobile app vendors on the hook for privacy

The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind.
News: Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted US$45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the U.S. and India.
News: The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked

Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.
09 May 2013
News: Microsoft Patch Tuesday targets multitude of Internet Explorer faults

Microsoft is issuing critical security bulletins this Patch Tuesday that affect all versions of Internet Explorer and deal with an exploit that attackers are actively working.
News: McAfee taps Intel to offer high-throughput intrusion-prevention system

McAfee is taking advantage of its new owners by rolling out a high-throughput intrusion-prevention system (IPS) family built on Intel technology.
News: PayPal Says It's Time to Ditch Passwords and PINs

PayPal CISO Michael Barrett took the keynote stage at Interop today to announce the impending death of passwords and their replacement with more robust authentication protocols based on an open standard. Apple may lead the way with its next iPhone.
News: US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill

New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect.
News: Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC

She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.
News: Universities get government funding to produce cyber security warriors

Royal Holloway, University of London has received a £3.8 million grant to host a new centre for doctoral training (CDT) in cyber security.
News: Hacking back: Digital revenge is sweet but risky

Let's not mince words: Cyberattacks suck. Whether criminals are hacking our passwords, or Anonymous is simply making a statement, the disruptions and data breaches exact a heavy toll in terms of time, money, and security. For example, after the Associated Press Twitter account was hacked and bogus news was posted about an attack on the White House, the U.S. stock market took a nosedive.
News: Adobe warns customers of unpatched critical flaw in ColdFusion

Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitive files stored on their servers.
News: Windows XP migration worries exaggerated by 'dead' applications

Many organisations exaggerate the difficulties of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 by over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey from consultancy Centrix Software has suggested.
News: Security practices wanting in virtual machine world, survey finds

Organizations leaning too heavily on virtualization vendors for protection, BeyondTrust finds
News: Lesson from the Google office hack: Do not trust third-parties

Many Tridium Niagara systems in use today are left unpatched, and the company acknowledges there's a problem with update deployments
News: Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.
News: Barclays adopts voice biometrics for customer identification

Barclays Wealth & Investment Management is using Nuance’s FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to automatically confirm and identify customers, instead of using security questions that rely on the customer’s ability to remember a number of different details.
News: CIOs fail to protect mainframe customer testing data

A fifth of CIOs (20 per cent) admit to not masking or protecting their customer data before providing it to outsourcers for mainframe application testing purposes.
News: Researchers find hundreds of insecure building control systems

Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.
News: Microsoft releases fix-it for Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability

Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.
News: Researchers find hundreds of insecure building control systems

Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.

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