“The EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement was adopted with 409 votes in favour, 226 against and 33 abstentions,” announced the EU yesterday. Opponents included “rapporteur Sophie in’T Veld, who withdrew her name from the report.”
BSI updates standards for information security auditing
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has recently updated its standards for information security auditing, BSI officials told Infosecurity.
Web inventor says UK government’s snooping bill is dangerous
The UK government’s plans to allow security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet browsing habits are dangerous, according to World Wide Web inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
New trojan attacks the hotel rather than the guests
Trusteer has discovered spyware being sold in underground forums for $280. It targets hospitality PoS applications.
Google warns 20,000 webmasters about ‘weird redirects’ to malicious sites
Google is warning around 20,000 webmasters that their sites may be compromised and are carrying out “weird redirects” to malicious sites.
PwC 2012 Information Security Breaches Survey: Preliminary findings report continued mobile insecurity
New statistics show that while many companies appear to understand the business threat from BYOD, many others are taking no precautions whatsoever.
(ISC)² launches its new EMEA advisory board
In a move designed to offer genuine hands-on security experience to EMEA’s different security initiatives, professional body (ISC)² has launched a new Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EAB).
Scammers target Verizon Wireless customers after AT&T attacks
Spammers have their sites on Verizon Wireless customers after targeting those of AT&T Wireless earlier this month.
McAfee sheds light on the Darkmegi kernel rootkit
Darkmegi, malware that uses a kernel rootkit component to infect computers, has begun exploiting a flaw in Java to conduct drive-by attacks, according to McAfee Labs.
Iranian software manager hacks and dumps card details of 3m Iranians
Khosrow Zarefarid found and reported a flaw in the Iranian POS system. He reported it, but was ignored – so he used it and hacked 3 million Iranian debit card details.