The website of the Northumbria Police Authority was hacked recently but, according to Chris Boyd, a senior researcher with GFI Software, the hack lives on in Google’s search caches.
Firms should take coordinated response to hacktivists, ISF advises
Organizations should ensure that their information security, public relations, and legal departments coordinate their response to a hacktivist attack, recommends Greg Nowak with the Information Security Forum (ISF).
Data on 350,000 Epson Korea customers compromised
Personal information on 350,000 South Koreans was breached as a result of a hack of Epson Korea’s website.
DoD works to improve smartphone security awareness
The Department of Defense (DoD) is working on improving security awareness for smartphones and other mobile computing platforms used by DoD personnel.
Cutwail botnet resurfaces in major Facebook scam-paign
An M86 Software researcher says his team has seen a major malicious spam campaign that is using the Cutwail botnet to bombard Facebook users with a variety of infected messages.
Security researcher shows money mules know exactly what they are doing
A leading security researcher claims to have researched a money mule – people who allow their bank accounts to become staging posts for fraudulent money obtained in online scams – that clearly knew exactly what he was doing.
Qualys develops open source tool to negate ‘slow HTTP’ DDoS attacks
A Qualys researcher has developed an open source tool that helps to negate the effects of so-called ‘slow HTTP’ DDOS attacks on internet-connected servers.
Microsoft warns of fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar
Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning of at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by root certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar.
Researcher fingers Medtronic as maker of vulnerable insulin pumps
The Medtronic Paradigm insulin pump is vulnerable to a wireless cyber attack, enabling the attacker to remotely disable the pump or manipulate the dosage, according to security researcher and diabetic Jerome Radcliffe.
Microsoft fixes bugs in updates to three SDL tools
Microsoft is fixing a number of bugs in recent updates to three of its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) tools, which enable developers to build security and privacy into their applications.