Weekly brief – October 19, 2009
US$4000 lost in Facebook scam; Michigan’s airport website closed due to malware; the first Windows 7 security patches appear; and more. We report on the IT security news…
Author: CySecBot
Biometrics 2009: Sagem Sécurité and Hitachi introduce multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device
Biometrics company Sagem Sécurité and the Japanese engineering and information technology firm Hitachi, will unveil their biometric multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device, Finger VP, at Biometrics 2009 in London this week.
Find out how to implement least-privilege security management for Linux and UNIX
A least-privilege security model has its merits, but it can be challenging to implement in for example Linux and UNIX environments where administrators often share passwords to root- or other superuser accounts. Find out how to implement least-privileg…
Fake anti-virus programmes hijack and block computers
PandaLabs has identified an aggressive trend for selling fake anti-virus programmes or rogueware, where instead of users seeing a series of warnings prompting them to buy a paid version, a fake anti-virus programme is combined with ransomware, hijackin…
Sophos introduces data loss prevention technology
Sophos has added a new data loss prevention (DLP) technology to its stable of enterprise security software. The addition will, said the veteran security vendor, simplify how companies mitigate against accidental data loss.
Half of UK firms lack knowledge on security breaches
Research just published by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that around half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year.
Lawsuits fly over T-Mobile Sidekick cloud data loss
T-Mobile has reportedly been hit by two class action lawsuits alleging that the cellular carrier misled consumers into believing that their data was secure after data was lost in the cloud
Wal-Mart EPOS system source code hacked – how secure is the payment card data?
Reports are coming in that the source code of the Wal-Mart highly customized point-of-sale (EPOS) computer system – used in almost 900 of its stores across the US – has been hacked.
Webroot reports tax return malware-infecting email scam reaching the UK
Webroot, the internet security software specialist, reports that an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax email scam – in which US internet users have been emailed a malware-infected warning about under-stating their income or underpaying of tax – has arr…
QSA system is broken, says Heartland CEO
In a session titled ‘Enhancing payment security in 2010’, Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO or Heartland Payment Systems – the subject of potentially the world’s biggest data security breach earlier this year – declared that the model used by quality se…