Friday 12th March 2010 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
Dirty laundry delivered via FedEx
A former Barclays Bank programmer received 46 months in prison for helping TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez launder as much as $800,000, according to news reports.…
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Not as anonymous as you think
Netflix has canceled a contest designed to improve its movie recommendation system out of concern it might compromise the privacy of its customers.…
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Zeus borrows page from Microsoft
The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what's found in Microsoft Windows.…What is your recession sales strategy?
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Code inject and info flaws fixed
Apple published an update of its Safari browser on Thursday that plugs 16 security vulnerabilities.…
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Ultra brute force attack
Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.…
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Unsanitised blog laid exploit hunt clues
A security researcher has credited McAfee for helping him to develop exploit code that cracks open an unpatched flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer.…
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PKK s'kiddies
Turkey has arrested 23 hackers suspected of links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and attacks on government websites.…
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After Yahoo! breach 'paralyzed' Veep campaign
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will testify in person against the college student accused of breaching her Yahoo mail account and leaking some of its contents online, according to published reports.…What is your recession sales strategy?
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Thursday 11th March 2010 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
One week after losing job
A former data analyst for the US Transportation Security Agency has been accused of trying to sabotage a terrorist screening database used to vet people with access to sensitive information and secure areas of the nation’s transportation network.…
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Google apps 'postponed' on China carriers
Motorola will soon push Microsoft's Bing search engine onto Android phones in China, after announcing an alliance with the Redmond software giant that will see Bing appear on Androids across the globe.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
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