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Morgan Stanley has issued a set of reports asserting that the mobile internet will be much bigger than the desktop internet: "Regarding pace of change, we believe more users will likely connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years." There are five converging trends: 3G, social networking, video, voice-over-IP (VoIP) and improving mobile internet devices (MIDs). The report claims that Apple's iPhone and iTouch ecosystem are exhibiting the fastest user growth in co... read more»
A Swedish bank has apologised for punting pxxx to wide-eyed schoolkids in a magazine sent out to over half a million 9 to 12-year-olds. Swedbank's Lyckoslanten ("Lucky Penny") is described as a “fun magazine about money", but an article in the latest issue listing the top ten most expensive domain names offered extra fun when it ranked the $1m webcam.com at number five. Swedbank spokeswoman Anna Sundblad described the gaffe as "very unfortunate" - a fair description given that webcam.com is h... read more»
The UK, following in America's footsteps, is to get a "cyber range" - a simulated network world where weapons-grade government malware and countermeasures can be tried out, much as bombs or missiles are on normal firing ranges. The cyber range is to be constructed under the auspices of the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The overarching programme of which the ra... read more»
MP3 spam has made an unwelcome return, two years after the tactic was first used to spamvertise products and services. The audio track file type briefly appeared in junk mail messages in October 2007 to tout pump and dump stock scams, before quickly dying out. Now junk MP3s have begun reappearing in messages touting Canadian Pharmacy websites, mail security services outfit MessageLabs reports. For more details : http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/resources/blog.aspx?link =http://www.symantec.c... read more»
The ESET Anti Virus Software company, known for its product Nor32 has its Websites https://www.esetsoftware.de and https://www.nod32.de defaced by HcJ. See mirrors: http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/10024260 http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/10024259 ... read more»
A former FBI contract linguist pleaded guilty today to unlawfully providing classified documents to the host of an Internet blog who then published information derived from those documents on the blog. Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, aka Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, 39, of Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., to a one-count information (pdf) charging him with knowingly and willfully disclosing to an unauthorized person five FBI documents classified at the "secret" level ... read more»
Doctor Andre Oboler directed the working group entitled " Anti-Semitism Online: Cyberspace and the Media" at the Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism. Dr. Oboler, Director of the Community Internet Engagement Project, explained to Arutz Sheva TV that a decade ago online anti-Semitism meant websites which were known by all as anti-Semitic.... read more»
Irish consumers are being warned to be extra vigilant when shopping, booking travel online or using social networks like Facebook to connect with friends and family this Christmas, as increased numbers of cybercriminals are poised to exploit naive and vulnerable computer users. A new report from CA has revealed increased levels of cyber criminal activity heavily focused on the major search engines, social networks and rogue/fake security software. CA's State of Internet Security Report, wh... read more»
Research by the Eshnav organization shows that a majority of internet sites aimed at children gather private information about the children without their parents’ permission. The study was carried out by the members of the Eshnav management – Attorneys Yonatan Klinger and Shuki Peleg – and by organization volunteers. It surveyed 32 of the leading Israeli children’s internet sites, and found that 60 percent gather information on the children without their parents’ knowledge or specific consent... read more»
China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders, it has emerged. The move would require international agreement - but it is being discussed by the United Nations body in charge of internet standards. It would allow countries which currently receive no payment for use of their lines to generate income. But an EU cyber security expert has warned the plan could threaten the stability of the entire internet.... read more»
Twitter has been hit by an embarrassing security breach. A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message. Twitter said the attack had been carried out by getting at the servers that tell web browsers where to find particular sites. The site said it would start an investigation into what allowed the "unplanned downtime" to take place.... read more»
Picking up the phone at her Cedar Grove home Thursday morning, village clerk Karen Otte was surprised to learn she had traveled to London and gotten mugged. At least that was message attributed to her in an e-mail sent out from the village’s account. Village President Gene Jentink said the Hotmail account was hacked sometime between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, and the message sent out to all contacts.... read more»
New EU telecoms rules will officially become EU law tomorrow following their publication in today's Official Journal of the European Union. The new rules composed of the Better Regulation Directive and the Citizens’ Rights Directive will need to be transposed into national laws of the 27 EU Member States by June 2011. The new Regulation establishing the new European Telecoms Authority called "Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)" is directly applicable and will ent... read more»
In conjunction with our recent partnership with 1 Security Solutions Applied we are happy to announce a new public training event which is run by both companies. We are offering an oppertunity for students to experience the PeteFinnigan.com Limited two day seminar "How to security audit an Oracle database". The class will be held in the Washington DC area on March 25th and March 26th 2010. There is currently an early bird price of $1,199 and interest in the class is strong. Please register yo... read more»
2009 was dominated by sophisticated malicious programs with rootkit functionality, the Kido worm (also known as Conficker), web attacks and botnets, SMS fraud and attacks on social networks. So what can we expect from 2010? According to Kaspersky Lab, in the coming year there will be a shift in the types of attacks on users: from attacks via websites and applications towards attacks originating from file sharing networks. Already in 2009 a series of mass malware epidemics have been “supported... read more»
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has pulled a page from its Web site that allowed people to access county records on residential septic tanks. Department spokeswoman Joby Winans said Tuesday that the shutdown was prompted by the discovery of a homeowner’s credit card number on one of the 3 million documents posted on the site. A user discovered the number Dec. 3, Winans said.... read more»
There's just something about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- the "anti-hacking" law in the US -- that seems to leave it open for abuse in lawsuits. This is the law that was used to convict Lori Drew. Even though the judge eventually tossed the ruling, it showed how the broadly-worded law could be applied in dangerous ways. Still, at least some attempts at twisting the law aren't getting very far. For example, a woman in Minnesota tried to use the law against a company that sent her spam text... read more»
This year was momentous for social media. Twitter exploded, garnering global press and even a visit to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Facebook ate up rival social network FriendFeed and overhauled pretty much, well, everything. And, finally, businesses truly started attaching themselves to some sort of internal social media-related programs.... read more»
Security management is the combination of hardware, software, and services that normalizes, aggregates, correlates, and visualizes data from disparate security products. Security management is a broad term that encompasses several currently distinct market segments. With the presence of the Internet, spam is becoming increasingly costly and dangerous as spammers deliver more virulent payloads through email attachments. According to a recent (2004) study, the volume of spam messages sent dai... read more»
So i was reading this shit about how some lol company Imperva found a SQLi on Rockyou.com. Yea, right, you’re the best. Too late guys, too late. I’ve got every account downloaded from this shitty site. You were too slow, but what can i expect from you? There is 32 603 388 customers. Pretty nice list with plain text passwords. It’s so lame, and I’m sure that more than half does work for myspace and other sites. Don’t lie to your customers, or i will publish everything.... read more»
Zero-day vulnerabilities take many forms. The one thing they have in common is that the hackers know about them before vendors and users. That's what the term means: They are available for exploit on “day zero” of their public exposure because only the black hats are aware of them. Vendors and security professionals must start from behind with a zero-day vulnerability in developing patches, fixes and workarounds to close the window of opportunity to attackers for exploiting these security wea... read more»
Microsoft may still face a lawsuit after apologizing for the theft of software code used in MSN China's microblog service, Juku, from rival Plurk, a popular provider from Canada. "We are definitely looking at all possibilities on how to move forward in response to Microsoft's recent statement," Plurk cofounder Alvin Woon said Wednesday. A "lawsuit is definitely one of the many options we have considered and will continue to look closely to," he added.... read more»
Heartland Payment Systems will pay American Express $3.6 million to settle charges relating to the 2008 hacking of its payment system network. This is the first settlement Heartland has reached with a card brand since disclosing the incident in January of this year. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Albert Gonzalez and several other accomplices with the hack, saying that Heartland was one of several companies that the hackers managed to break into using SQL injection attacks.... read more»
THE next time you click on an unfamiliar website ending with .sg, think twice. Spam masters are zeroing in on the .sg domain. Singapore was singled out as the 10th-riskiest domain out of 104 worldwide in a recently released McAfee report - and the rise of such sites, said experts, could cause Internet users worldwide to lose trust in Singapore websites. The report warned that more .sg domains are being used for phishing and spam activities and to serve up viruses - almost one out of every ... read more»
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