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European Union to investigate internet telephony eavesdropping
European Union to investigate internet telephony eavesdropping
Against a backdrop of the increasing use of internet telephony (aka voice over IP) by criminals as a way of avoiding wiretaps, the European Union has thrown its weight behind research into how to monitor internet telephony calls on a cost-effective basis.
Feb. 23, 2009
Facebook moves to save face on T&Cs
Facebook moves to save face on T&Cs
Social networking giant Facebook has back-tracked on a controversial decision to retain users' information, even when they close their accounts.
Feb. 20, 2009
Kaspersky site hack expands to BitDefender and F-Secure
Kaspersky site hack expands to BitDefender and F-Secure
Romanian hackers are reported to be targeting the web sites of several IT security vendors.
Feb. 17, 2009
Arrests made in Heartland breach
Arrests made in Heartland breach
Timothy J. Johns, Jeremy A. Frazier and Tony Acreus, all in their early twenties, were arrested while using stolen credit card numbers to make purchases in Leon County, Tallahassee.
Feb. 17, 2009
Los Alamos in hot water over computer loss
Los Alamos in hot water over computer loss
The Department of Energy has slammed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for lax cybersecurity following the revelation last week that 69 computers are missing from the nuclear laboratory.
Feb. 16, 2009
Malicious URLs arrive on Digg Web portal
Malicious URLs arrive on Digg Web portal
The ingenuity of malware distributors has reached new levels - of depths - depending on your point of view.
Feb. 12, 2009
More details emerge on Kaspersky hack
More details emerge on Kaspersky hack
As more details of the Kaspersky web site hack came to light yesterday, the same hacking forum posted details of a similar SQL injection attack, this time on a Portugese reseller for anti-malware firm BitDefender.
Feb. 10, 2009
Online hotel fraud scamming 71 000 travellers a month
Online hotel fraud scamming 71 000 travellers a month
FraudTip, a Web security portal, claims that an internet scam is defrauding around 71 000 travellers every month by the simple expedient of routing internet users to fraudulent versions of popular booking sites.
Feb. 9, 2009
Blind hacker fulfils Sneakers movie role 17 years on
Blind hacker fulfils Sneakers movie role 17 years on
Movies have a funny habit of becoming reality and the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, is no exception.
Feb. 4, 2009
$9m lifted in RBS Worldpay ATM heist
$9m lifted in RBS Worldpay ATM heist
The FBI is investigating a $9m large-scale ATM fraud using cards cloned from US card processor RBS Worldpay.
Feb. 4, 2009
Kaspersky site hacked over weekend
Kaspersky site hacked over weekend
Anti-malware vendor Kaspersky's site was hacked over the weekend, using an SQL injection attack. While admitting that the site was vulnerable, Kaspersky is denying that the vulnerabiity was critical. The hacker nevertheless listed what he said was the full set of tables from the firm's MySQL database.
Feb. 4, 2009
Companies their own worst enemy says IBM X-Force report
Companies their own worst enemy says IBM X-Force report
The annual report from IBM's X-Force security operation shows what many IT managers have suspected for some time, namely that Web application vulnerabilities represent the major risk for most organisations.
Feb. 3, 2009