A worm on Twitter is tricking users into giving up their user details at the same time as redirecting victims to a dating website where the aggregate number of views result in affiliate revenue.
Google indexes details on thousands of credit and debit cardholders
Police in Victoria, Australia are investigating a potentially major security incident in which the stolen personal details of thousands of credit and debit card holders from Australia, Germany and the UK were posted to a blogging site and auto-indexed …
RAF data loss included sensitive vetting data
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has omitted information that the theft of hard drives in September 2008 with data on RAF personnel also included highly sensitive RAF vetting records.
Open Group advises on risk management methods
Independent consortium the Open Group is trying to resolve what it sees as confusion about risk management in the industry by publishing a guide to choosing a risk management methodology.
Jericho Forum links with Cloud Security Alliance
Hard on the heels of unveiling Cloud Cube, its four-dimensional best practice model for cloud computing security in April, security industry association the Jericho Forum has linked with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit vendor group.
Anti-malware groups align themselves
Anti-malware efforts took a significant step forward this week with the announcement of an initiative to try and bring legitimate software businesses together and lock out malware writers.
£3.9 million bank credit error highlights need for code auditing
A succession of errors – at the programme code development level and human error when inputting the data – are reported to have resulted in a New Zealand couple being credited with NZ$10 million (£3.9 million) rather than a much smaller sum as the proc…
Survey shows information security awareness is high, yet compliance is low
SAI Global’s Benchmarking Survey 2008 finds that 95% of employees believe information security is important, but that there is a lack of knowledge and training surrounding how to identify and report incidents.
McAfee acquires Solidcore for whitelisting technology
McAfee will acquire Solidcore Systems, a whitelisting specialist, in a US$33m deal which will allow McAfee to integrate Solidcore’s technology into its blacklisting malware detection and prevention products, as well as to bolster its high-end corporate…
Gumblar malware attack sweeps web
A modified attack that alters Google searches is taking the web by storm according to security researchers, who have identified more malware domains being used in the attack.