Every EU committee tasked with recommending how the European Parliament should vote on the ratification of the ACTA agreement has now voted: No. But ACTA just won’t lie down.
FBI arrests: was UGNazi a target or an instrument?
In what has been described as “the largest coordinated international law enforcement [carding] action in history”, the FBI has arrested 12 US citizens among a total of 24 arrests in eight countries.
FTC goes after Wyndham Hotels for theft of 620,000 payment cards
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Wyndham Hotels for data security failures that led to three data breaches in less than two years and resulted in the theft of close to 620,000 payment card numbers.
Android chosen for military security
Invincea yesterday announced a $21.4m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) for a secure version of Android phones and tablets.
Hackers crack CAPTCHA website security measures
Hackers are able to bypass CAPTCHA security measures using computer-assisted tools and crowdsourcing to gain access to personal and financial information, Imperva warned in its latest Hacker Intelligence Report.
Euro 2012 is the lure; pharmacy spam scam the result
Spammers and scammers use international events and disasters as the lure for their ware. Euro 2012 provides both: an international event littered with individual disasters when national teams are dismissed.
Information security risks lurk in oft-neglected places
A new study by Kroll Advisory Solutions highlights the information security risks lurking in oft-neglected places, such as voicemail, conference calls, and even the mailroom.
FDA warns about software flaws in medical devices
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that software flaws in medical devices are leading to compromises of those devices.
USAID gets detention after failing FISMA test
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to improve its network security monitoring in response to a failing grade on the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) scorecard, according to Jerry Horton, the agency’s chief…
PDFs wrapped in XDP evade anti-virus scans
“Security researcher Brandon Dixon has discovered a way to bypass the Antivirus detection for malicious PDFs,” writes eHackingNews, “using the XML Data Package(XDP) format.” It goes on to add that “opening the malicious XDP file can result in Adobe Rea…