Former DARPA Head Proposes Pills and Tattoos to Replace Passwords
Motorola’s Regina Duggan suggested at the Wall Street Journal’s D11 conference that pills and tattoos could replace passwords as the solution to the perennial authentication problem.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Feds Seize Alleged Cybercrime Money Laundering Operation
Domains belonging to Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rican payment processor, have been seized by Federal authorities alleging it was a cybercrime money laundering operation.
Despite £800m in Losses, Small Businesses Scoff at Security
Small and medium-sized businesses are losing a staggering £785 million per year to cybercrime, according to a joint report published by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Home Office and Business Departments in the United Kingdom.
The developers of Reveton have expanded that ransomware’s repertoire with a password stealing functionality, according to Stefan Sellmer at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
Microsoft observed a precipitous drop-off in click-traffic on their “extended publishing network,” which they claim reflects a similar drop-off in click-fraud, as a result of the actions they have taken to stymie ZeroAccess, according to Microsoft Malware Protection Center researchers Tommy Blizard and Nikola Livic.
Mac spyware was discovered on the computer of an activist attended a free speech workshop in Oslo.
The civil war-torn nation of Syria has for the second time this month lost its connection to the Internet, according to information provided by Arbor Networks.
Adobe is set to publish security updates in various versions of its Acrobat and Reader software packages along with Microsoft in the May edition of Patch Tuesday.
The Microsoft Security Response Center announced today that it will ship ten bulletins in the March edition of patch Tuesday. MSRP considers just two of the patches critical, one of which supplements the currently available “Fix it” tool that resolved the IE vulnerability exploited recently in an attack targeting the U.S. Department of Labor.
The satirical Onion news website wrote a legitimate post-mortem describing how it was compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army.
