The Australian government has blocked China’s Huawei Technologies from participating in the country’s AUS$36 billion national broadband network (NBN) project because of cybersecurity concerns.
Belarusian sentenced to US prison for assisting identity theft scams
A Belarusian named Dmitry Naskovets has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for operating CallService.biz, an online site that helped over 2,000 identity thieves commit fraud, federal authorities announced on Friday.
Watchdog warns US agencies lax on global IT supply chain security
The General Accounting Office (GAO) is warning that insecurity in the global IT supply chain is putting US national security agencies at risk.
LulzSec Reborn posts data on over 170,000 MilitarySingles.com users
The MilitarySingles.com website has apparently been hacked by LulzSec Reborn, exposing user information on 170,000 members.
Microsoft takes control of 800 domains associated with Zeus botnets
In a major action against the banking trojan Zeus, Microsoft with FS-ISAC and NACHA and research from Kyrus Tech and F-Secure have succeeded in disrupting a number of the most harmful Zeus botnets in “in an unprecedented, proactive cross-industry actio…
US government extends period that intelligence on citizens can be retained
The US government has issued new counterterrorism guidelines that allow for the retention of intelligence on US citizens for five years, rather than the current 180 days.
Kaiser Permanente data breach affects thousands of employees
Managed health care consortium Kaiser Permanente has notified thousands of current and former employees that their personal information was found on an external hard drive purchased in a second-hand store in California.
Europe’s first information risk maturity index developed
PwC and Iron Mountain have joined together to develop a risk maturity index for European SMEs; and finds them generally lacking.
Firefox will use HTTPS by default
Encrypted searching should become available by default for all Firefox users within a few months – a big win for privacy.
Indian call centers sell UK financial data and DVLA gives access to Indian workers
On the same day that the Sunday Times reported Indian workers offering UK finance details for sale at as little as 0.02p, the Observer reported that IBM contractors in India will have access to the data of 43 million UK drivers held by the DVLA.