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Denial, hype cloud report of Best Western breach
Did Russian cybercriminals make off with sensitive data on the hotel chain's 8 million customers? The company says, "Nyet." 2008-08-26 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Search hacker exposes Olympic age scandal A dedicated security blogger finds evidence on the Internet, allegedly showing that two Chinese gold-medal gymnasts were too young to compete. The International Olympic Committee opens, and then promptly closes, an investigation. 2008-08-25 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Opera update nixes critical flaws The software maker releases a patch for its browser, fixing about a half dozen vulnerabilities in its versions for each operating system. 2008-08-21 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment States seek workarounds for e-voting systems Six years after the U.S. government mandated better voting systems, states continue to deal with the hardware problems, software flaws, and security issues. 2008-08-20 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Judge nixes gag order against MIT students A federal court judge lifts the temporary restraining order against three students, allowing them to talk about flaws they found in the electronic ticketing system used on subway and bus lines. 2008-08-19 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment P2P investigation leads to child-porn busts A massive investigation of peer-to-peer networks in California leads to 52 people being arrested on charges of possessing child pornography. 2008-08-19 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment U.K. response team releases Net security guide Following even the latest technical standards will still result in running afoul of undocumented security problems, the United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure says in a report. 2008-08-15 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Air Force's Cyber Command in holding pattern The top brass suggests freezing the U.S. military service's planned expansion, hobbling it in the race to become the primary service to handle cyberspace attack and defense. 2008-08-14 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Groups urge states to tackle more cybercrime State Attorneys General focus efforts on battling high-profile online sex cases, giving short shrift to fraud and financial crimes, two tech policy organizations report. 2008-08-14 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft patches holes in Office, browser The software giant fixes 26 vulnerabilities, including a half dozen critical flaws in Internet Explorer and 14 issues in various Office applications. 2008-08-12 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Browser toolbar to check site security Errata Security plans to release an add-on for major browsers that will check the most obvious security shortfalls for Web sites. 2008-08-11 Read more ... | 5 Comment(s) | Post Comment Mandiant researchers win Race to Zero Consultants with the firm sneak all ten samples of malware past major antivirus engines, urging companies to focus on defense-in-depth strategies. 2008-08-11 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Telnet still tops open port list A security researcher's massive network scanning effort finds that the insecure communications protocol still appears to be widely deployed, beating the more secure SSH. 2008-08-10 Read more ... | 4 Comment(s) | Post Comment Experts herd "sheep" to safer pastures The Wall of Sheep, an attempt to alert DEFCON attendees to the sensitive information they are sending over the airwaves, increasingly sees users betrayed by their mobile applications. 2008-08-10 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Transit authority sues to silence undergrads The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority has successfully sued three MIT students, quashing the researchers' presentation at DEFCON on techniques to circumvent the agency's payment system. 2008-08-09 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Coreflood keeps on infecting under radar A security firm finds that the Trojan horse, first seen in 2002, continues to be successful, evolving from a basic bot program to an effective thief of sensitive data. 2008-08-09 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Defenses fall down on social networks Two researchers find that people are far less paranoid about social networking services -- such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter -- than they should be. 2008-08-07 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Researcher: Toll system poses hacking risk A well-known reverse engineer finds that the transponders for the FasTrak system can be hacked to send other customers' IDs. 2008-08-06 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Mozilla ups ante on security The open-source browser maker plans to better train developers in secure development practices and open up their process in assessing threats to the community. 2008-08-06 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft offers peek to protection firms The software giant plans to allow companies that sell host- and network-defense products to receive information on forthcoming patches to better protect their users. 2008-08-05 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Worm builds botnets with MySpace, Facebook Two variants of a worm advertise a fake Flash update in an attempt to infect victims' computers with bot software. 2008-08-04 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Apple's DNS fix for Macs not so final? UPDATE: The consumer technology maker updates Mac OS X to fix 17 flaws, including a security issue in its domain-name service software. But some researchers fear Apple missed the real issue. 2008-08-01 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Federal agencies slow to deploy crypto Despite high-profile data breaches, less than a third of U.S. government systems have encrypted sensitive data, states a report to Congress. 2008-07-29 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Insecure update services open to DNS attack An attack tool demonstrates one way to use the recent domain-name service (DNS) security issue by compromising computers through insecure update services. 2008-07-28 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Report: Small biz weak in cybersecurity Most small- and medium-sized companies believe that they operate under cybercriminals' radar, but a study finds that one-in-five firms have been attacked. 2008-07-25 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Metasploit releases double-whammy for DNS HD Moore and another researcher release two exploits for the high-profile domain-name system flaw under the Metasploit framework. 2008-07-24 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Attackers' behavior builds better blacklists Computer scientists will present a paper next week on a technique that correlates an attacker's preference for victims' networks as a way to prioritize additions to a blacklist. 2008-07-24 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Kerfuffle erupts as DNS flaw described A well-known researcher's educated guesses on the nature of the flaw in the domain-name system sets off a chain of events leading to details of the vulnerability being leaked. 2008-07-22 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Prosecutors criticized in pop-up porn case Thirteen months after a judge threw out the case against a Connecticut substitute teacher, prosecutors still have not cleared Julie Amero. 2008-07-21 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Mozilla shutters three Firefox flaws The open-source software maker fixes three critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a Mac-only flaw found by Apple. 2008-07-17 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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