Believe it or not, Malware packages are now being sold with an end-user licence agreements. “Researchers at Symantec have spotted the licence agreement in recent copies of Zeus, noting that one of the restrictions is that the malware ‘cannot be used for purposes other than which it was bought for’,” says vnunet. “Zeus buyers also ‘commit to […]
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Crime involving electronic payment fraud is still rife and is undermining citizens’ confidence in buying and selling online, says the European Commission. Its report on fraud and countermeasures taken between 2004 and 2007 shows even though the number of discovered cases is a small minority of the overall number of transactions using new payment services, “they […]
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At least 18 US colleges are, “scrambling to inform tens of thousands of students they are at risk of having their identities stolen after SunGard, a leading software vendor, reported that a laptop owned by one of its consultants was stolen,” says the Chronicle of Higher Education. The full extent of the problem is still unknown, […]
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US supermarket chain Hannaford Bros has splashed out “millions of dollars” on additional security measures following the discovery, last month that hackers may scooped as many as 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers. Based in Scarborough, Maine, the company, with stores in Massachusetts and other states, has started encrypting card numbers from the moment they […]
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Liability for online banking thefts in the UK could soon become the responsibility of customers. “Anyone without up-to-date anti-virus software, spyware protection and a personal firewall could be judged as ‘acting without reasonable care’ by banks, says absolute gadget. Sections 12.9 and 12.11 of the UK Banking Code place the onus on bank customers, “to take reasonable […]
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Malicious hackers might want to think twice now Swedish computer security expert Joel Eriksson is on the scene. A researcher at Bitsec, he’s reverse engineering to find remotely-exploitable security holes in hacking software. “In particular, he targets the client-side applications intruders use to control Trojan horses from afar, finding vulnerabilities that would let him upload his […]
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Malicious hackers might want to think twice now Swedish computer security expert Joel Eriksson is on the scene. A researcher at Bitsec, he’s reverse engineering to find remotely-exploitable security holes in hacking software. “In particular, he targets the client-side applications intruders use to control Trojan horses from afar, finding vulnerabilities that would let him upload his […]
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Illegal credit card numbers are going for as little as 40 cents each, “and access to a bank account was going for $10 in the second half of 2007, according to the latest twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec Corp. released Tuesday”. Why so cheap? It seems there’s fierce competition among identity thieves. Prices for stolen data […]
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With the filing deadline looming, Treasury officials say poor controls over IRS computers, "could allow a disgruntled employee, agency contractor or outside hacker to steal taxpayers’ confidential information". A hacker, "might even ‘gain full control of the IRS network,’ said a report from the office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, according to tghe […]
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Apple has been getting worse at dealing with security vulnerabilitiesm but Microsoft has been getting better, say Swiss security researchers. The news came at 0-Day Patch Exposing Vendors (In)security Performance at the Black Hat conference in Amsterdam, Stefan Frei, Bernhard Tellenbach, and Bernhard Plattner of the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory at the Swiss Federal […]
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