Visa fined TJX’s card processor $880,000 last summer and will keep on fining it at the rate of $100,000 per month, “for TJX’s role in the worst data breach in the payment industry’s history,” says eWeek. The story says the class-action lawsuit by various banks against TJX continues and, “documents and details of TJX’s breach are […]
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Direct Revenue has gone forever. After numerous lawsuits and fines, “the firm behind a swathe of intrusive and malicious software products has ceased trading thanks to cases brought by New York State and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenging its devious business practices and resulting in hefty fines,” says Virus Bulletin. On what used to be […]
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Bill Thompson, a British journalist, says he thinks his blog was hacked sometime last week, “and a discreet little ‘iframe’ linking to a malware hosting site was added to the 30boxes widget you can see on the right”. It wasn’t 30boxes fault, he says, the widget code hadn’t changed, “so I assume that something managed to […]
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Cheap, off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is being used to crack computer passwords and now Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. “It takes advantage of the ‘massively parallel processing’ capabilities of a graphics processing unit (GPU) the processor normally used to produce realistic graphics for video games,” says New […]
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WEP as a security measure is so broken, “your (and everyone else’s) kid sister can easily circumvent it,” says security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann. WiFi hotspots throughout the UK, “have been targeted by criminals, who have broken through the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP),” he states, says Broadband-Finder, quoting the BBC. “Throughout the world, Wi-Fi hotspots are becoming increasingly […]
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“A father’s decision to spy on his son’s Internet surfing helped police solve a Coronado hotel burglary and arrest two National City men this month, police said.” That’s the introduction to a San Diego Union-Tribune story which says the crime came to light after the man reported his 17-year-old son’s shoulder bag containing his […]
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Two laptop computers holding detailed personal information about US commercial drivers who haul hazardous materials have gone missing and are thought to have been stolen. “The laptops belong to a contractor working for the Transportation Security Administration and contain the names, addresses, birthdays, commercial driver’s license numbers and, in some cases, Social Security numbers of 3,930 […]
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There’s more to the copyright infringement case that’s currently occupying significant areas of the internet than may at first appear. A Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas, is said to have illegally shared digital music files owned by the music industry. But at least one aspect should also be of interest to people involved in security, says Security Blog. “Instead […]
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McAfee says it’s buying Netherlands-based SafeBoot B.V. for $350 million in cash. The company is an enterprise security software vendor, “focused on data protection via encryption and access control,” says the San Jose Business Journal, adding: “Its product line is offered in more than 20 languages and in 76 countries.” Slashdot it!
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By far the vast majority of email in the Philippines is “spam” or unsolicited mass advertising. So says Symantec, which found that 87% comprised unwanted messages. “This makes the Philippines second in Asia to Uzbekistan, where 88 percent of e-mail is spam, said Symantec Philippines senior technical consultant Richard Velasco,” according to Agency France-Presse. Vietnam was No 3 […]
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