A former Unix engineer faces 10 years in jail for planting a malicious script designed to destroy data at troubled mortgage giant, Fannie Mae.
FBI thwarts data breach at Akamai Technologies
A potential data breach at Akamai Technologies was foiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), prosecutors disclosed this week.
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.
Prevx signs McAfee CTO as president – plans for tiny footprint cloud-based software
Up and coming IT security vendor Prevx has just signed Christopher Bolin, a former CTO with McAfee, as its new president, and Infosecurity caught up with him this week to discuss his gameplan.
Spammers tap soft hyphens to beat email intercept security
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.