It seems that spammers are starting to use the so-called ‘SHY’ character – aka a soft hyphen – to fool IT security applications into allowing email applications to allow click-throughs to suspect web pages.
Adobe shares surge on reports of possible Microsoft takeover
Adobe Systems shares surged 12% after the New York Times said Microsoft may work more closely with the company and possibly acquire it.
Mozilla Firefox trojan hacks browser to store passwords
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browser clients currently in use and, as a result is attracting the attentions of hackers, some of whom have developed a keylogger trojan that forces the client to store passwords automatically.
Anonymous cyber-protest group stages DDOS attack on Spain’s copyright society
An online activist group – apparently using the 4Chan web portal as its forum – started a major distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) at around midnight CET yesterday evening against the web portal of the Spanish copyright protection society, the…
Global standard needed for credit card data encryption, PCI council says
A global standard is needed for point-to-point encryption (P2PE) technology used to secure credit card transactions, according to Troy Leach, chief standards architect at the PCI Security Standards Council. Standards are needed to ensure consistency an…
iPhone UDID raises data privacy issues
The unique device identifier (UDID) on an iPhone can be used in collecting data that poses privacy concerns, warns Bucknell professor Eric Smith.
ISSE 2010: IT world needs independent security standards
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organizations, according to a German information security official.
ISSE 2010: IT world needs independent security standards
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organisations, according to a German information security official.
IT security too important to leave just to techies
Information security technologies have never been as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
UFO hacker Gary McKinnon decision expected “in weeks rather than months”
The fate of self-confessed ‘UFO hacker’ Gary McKinnon – who has been on the cusp of being extradited to the US to face charges in connection with unauthorized access to US military networks – will be decided within a matter of weeks, rather than months…