Radisson Hotels & Resorts has announced that its computer systems have been accessed without authorisation between November 2008 and May 2009. Radisson is not saying, however, whether the unauthorised incursion was caused by hackers or an internal secu…
Rogueware is the new cybercrime threat says PandaLabs
Research just released by PandaLabs claims that a new category of malware has arrived in the information security threats industry. Known as rogueware, the threat has, the company says, become a thriving business area for cybercriminals because the ind…
Australian ISPs tackling ongoing DDOS attack
Reports are coming in from Australia that two ISPs – aaNet and EFTel – having been subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack for the last two weeks, are taking action. The attacks have resulted in many users of the ISPs being restricte…
Hackers steal unpublished Leona Lewis songs
Hackers have broken into the IT system at Simon Cowell’s record label, Syco Records, stolen three unreleased Leona Lewis songs, and leaked them online.
RIM introduces next-generation BlackBerry smart card reader
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the popular BlackBerry email-enabled smartphone, has released a major update to its smart card reader for the BlackBerry range.
US man charged with stealing 130 million payment card details
In what security experts are calling ‘the largest ever identity theft case in modern history’, a US man has been charged with stealing data relating to 130 million payment cards.
Delaware man fined $210 000 for selling pirate software online
Whilst eBay and other major internet auction sites appear to have cleaned up their acts on the pirate software front, smaller sites are still letting some postings through.
Tesco chooses Fortinet for threat management
Tesco’s Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the Global Services division for supermarket Tesco, has deployed a unified threat management appliance from Fortinet to provide IT security across the company.
Islamist hackers block Kosovo website
The problem of religiously-motivated hacker attacks raised its ugly head again this month with an attack on the Express newspaper in Kosovo. Newswire reports suggest that Islamist hackers attacked the paper’s website using a combination of simple malwa…
Campaign Monitor hit by hacker server incursion
Campaign Monitor, the Australia-based email marketing software developer, has warned users of compromise to its servers that took place over last weekend.