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Biometrics system failure in Malaysia causes chaos
Biometrics system failure in Malaysia causes chaos
The high profile failure of a state-of-the-art biometrics system at a major international travel hub in Malaysia last weekend has sent shockwaves throughout the global biometrics industry.
June 9, 2011
Privacy groups voice concerns over Facebook face-recognition feature
Privacy groups voice concerns over Facebook face-recognition feature
European Union data protection regulators have called for an investigation into a Facebook feature using face-recognition software to help tag people in images on the social media website.
June 9, 2011
Citigroup admits to data breach affecting 210,000 credit card customers
Citigroup admits to data breach affecting 210,000 credit card customers
Roughly 1% of Citigroup’s 21 million North American customers’ credit card accounts were hacked, the bank has admitted.
June 9, 2011
Google doles out $10,000 in bounties for fixes in latest Chrome browser
Google doles out $10,000 in bounties for fixes in latest Chrome browser
Google has awarded researchers close to $10,000 for identifying security flaws in its Chrome web browser; version 12 fixes 15 vulnerabilities in total.
June 9, 2011
Samsung hands its latest smartphone over to the hacker dark side
Samsung hands its latest smartphone over to the hacker dark side
If companies employ pen testers to check their security out - why not mobile phone vendors? Which is pretty much what Samsung have done with their new Galaxy S2 smartphone, by handing the unit over to a hardware hacking group for custom ROM development.
June 8, 2011
Oracle patches 17 Java security vulnerabilities in one go
Oracle patches 17 Java security vulnerabilities in one go
Oracle surprised many of its software developers and vendors with a major update of the Java programming language this week. Although scheduled as part of its monthly update, the patches tackled no less than 17 security problems.
June 8, 2011
Bank dodges legal bullet over Zeus trojan lawsuit
Bank dodges legal bullet over Zeus trojan lawsuit
Ocean Bank is not legally responsible for a cyber heist of $588,000 from a customer’s online account using the Zeus trojan, according to a ruling by a judge in Maine.
June 8, 2011
Guardian newspaper claims 25% of US hackers are FBI informants
Guardian newspaper claims 25% of US hackers are FBI informants
The Guardian newspaper has made the interesting assertion that the FBI has used the threat of prison to create an army of informants amongst hackers, with one in four US hackers now recruited by the law enforcement agency.
June 7, 2011
Security researcher spots Amazon Web Services hosting Brazilian malware
Security researcher spots Amazon Web Services hosting Brazilian malware
Kaspersky Lab claims to have discovered the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing resource hosting Brazilian banking malware and, whilst this is not unknown, it also claims that Amazon has not responded to its reports about the darkware.
June 7, 2011
More infected Android apps appear in the wild
More infected Android apps appear in the wild
A Tokyo-based Symantec researcher claims to have discovered another batch of infected Google Android apps, subverted by what he calls the follow-up to the now-infamous DroidDream malware.
June 7, 2011
New Android app allows automated WiFi cookie intercepts
New Android app allows automated WiFi cookie intercepts
A new Android app – FaceNiff – has been released that is claimed to allow automated cookie interception over public-access WiFi connections.
June 6, 2011
Advanced worm uses built-in DHCP server to propagate
Advanced worm uses built-in DHCP server to propagate
An advanced version of the Alureon (aka TDDS) rootkit worm is reported to have been enhanced by the addition of an in-worm DHCP server.
June 6, 2011