Three UK Men to Serve 13 Years for Phishing
Three individuals have been sentenced 13 years of jail time in the UK for carrying out cyberattacks on British and international banks.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
EFF Argues Forced Decryption Violates Fifth Amendment
Digital civil liberties organization, the Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF), appealed to the U.S. District Court of Colorado arguing that encrypted personal data is covered by the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self incrimination.
Researchers Discover the World’s Most Complicated Piece of Malware
Researchers from Kaspersky Labs claim to have discovered the most sophisticated piece of malware available on the Web. Detected by their antivirus product as TDSS, the Trojan employs a number of methods to avoid detection, including the use of encryption between the botnet command and control server and its zombies and a powerful rootkit component that conceals the presence other types of malware in a given system.
Google has implemented new security features into their popular Gmail Web-based email service that will help prevent Gmail users from becoming victims of phishing scams.
Groupon is calling on users of their India subsidiary, Sosasta.com, to change their passwords after the company accidentally published a database containing the usernames and passwords of some 300,000 customers, according to a report from Risky.biz.
Researchers from M86 claim to have discovered a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer that is being used in the wild, according to Avri Schneider, an M86 researcher.
RFID security problems have been biting at the ankles of users and companies that deploy the technology for several years now, but they’ve been mostly on the fringes of mainstream security concerns. But now, as the technology becomes more widespread and pervasive, that is beginning to change.
Spam numbers were up by 2.1% in May from the previous month, accounting for 82.9% of global email traffic according to SecureList’s May 2011 spam report.
The FBI has issued some 19,000 uninstall commands to the computers of 24 individuals infected by the Coreflood botnet, effectively purging their machines of that malware, and leaving behind no unintended consequences thus far according to a report from Brian Krebs.
WordPress, the popular blogging platform, is requiring users to change their account passwords after members of the company’s security team discovered cleverly disguised backdoors in some of the platforms most popular plug-ins.
