The saga of Russia’s ChronoPay electronic money operation – which has been hit by arrests and dark accusations over the last 12 months – continued this week with the revelation that an Estonian company is a key investor in the firm.
With data breaches, failing to plan is planning to fail, says Forrester
A poorly contained data breach and mishandled response could cost companies millions of dollars in lost business and damaged reputation, warns Forrester analysts.
Apple plugs 17 holes in Java for Snow Leopard and Lion
Apple has fixed 17 vulnerabilities in Java for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion, a move that brings the Mac operating systems up to date with Oracle’s Java SE 6 update 29.
Firefox 8 fixes five critical security flaws
The newest version of Firefox plugs eight security holes, including five that are rated as critical and three as high.
Malaysian certificate authority trust revoked by Mozilla and others
An intermediate web certificate authority has had its trust revoked by Mozilla after it was found to issue weak and potentially compromisable certificates.
Adobe cans development for Flash on mobile devices
Adobe has perhaps bowed to the inevitable and, in a notice to developers, advised them that it is ceasing development of the Adobe Flash environment for smartphones and tablets, although critical security and bug fixes will be available.
Estonia takes down massive cybercriminal net
Reports are coming in that officials in Estonia – arguably one of the most internet-savvy governments in the world – have taken down a massive DNS-changing cybercrime operation involving a click-fraud program that infected more than four million comput…
Proof-of-concept malware sneaked onto Apple iTunes; developer given the axe
When is a flaw not a flaw? When it’s a feature of the operating system, it seems, as serial Apple Mac cracker Charlie Miller has tapped a feature of Apple’s portable operating system and created an iPhone/iPad app that allows almost complete remote acc…
Massive DNS poisoning attacks under way in Brazil
Kaspersky Lab has made the interesting discovery that there is a massive DNS poisoning attack under way in Brazil, with several ISPs in the country falling victim to the attacks.
DARPA to increase cybersecurity research investment by 50% over five years
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to increase investment in cybersecurity research by 50% over the next five years and focus more on offensive cyberwar capabilities, according to the head of the agency.