Freshshop, the site set up and run by Jay Moore (aka t0pp8uzz) was a one-stop card fraud shop. Now Moore and his money-mule helper and co-conspirator Damian Horne (aka GM) have been jailed following an investigation by the UK Serious Organized Crime Ag…
Not all is harmonious at eHarmony: Dating site admits to password breach
Online dating site eHarmony joins LinkedIn as the latest social networking site to be hacked, admitting to a breach that may have exposed 1.5 million user passwords.
Adobe issues free security patches for older version of Photoshop, Illustrator
Bowing to pressure from users of the CS5 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe has issued free security patches to plug critical flaws in the software that could enable an attack to take control of a vulnerable system.
Flame: why was it missed for so long?
While the in-depth analysis of Flame continues, and we learn more and more about its intricacies and capabilities, one question remains: why did the AV industry fail to spot it earlier?
Taking a bite of the iOS security Apple: A glimpse inside
In an unprecedented move at openness, Apple has issued a document on iOS security that provides details on the system architecture, encryption and data protection, network security features, and device access for iOS devices.
Facebook redesigns admin controls to prevent page hijacking
Facebook has improved the protections for page administrators by enabling them to assign lower admin rights, which helps prevent page hijacking.
Warning about the dangers in browser syncing
Chrome v19 introduced a ‘tab sync’. This in turn, claims Imperva, introduces a new threat vector for business – a threat Imperva terms BYOB (bring your own browser).
Hulk DoS tool analyzed and mitigated
On 17 May, security researcher Barry Shteiman released Hulk (HTTP unbearable load king). It is, as its name suggests, a denial-of-service (DoS) tool that operates by sending an unbearable load of HTTP requests to the target web server, overloading it a…
Launching Forward with IPv6
With the era of freely available IPv4 addresses nearing its end, I’m pleased to see that 2012 appears to be the year when the IPv6 Internet will finally reach maturity and launch into wide-scale commercial use. For over a decade, the groundwork for th…
US government drags its feet on declassifying documents
The number of US government documents that were declassified, as well as the number reviewed for declassification, dropped in fiscal year (FY) 2011. This was compared with the previous fiscal year, according to an annual report by the Information Secur…