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Bruce Schneier has been writing, talking and thinking about security for a long time, and in this talk from the TEDxPSU conference sponsored by Penn State, Schneier discusses the realities and the mirages of security and what they mean for real people.
For just about as long as there have been botnets, there’s been an ongoing discussion in the security and law-enforcement communities about the legality and ethics of taking proactive steps to disrupt the botnets’ operations and even to remove the bots from infected machines. Until very recently, those discussions have been theoretical, but now the government has asked a court for permission to clean millions of Coreflood bot-infected PCs, moving the questions from the realm of “what if” to “now what.”
Google is well-known for its worldwide network of data centers, in which it holds not just the company’s own data, but the sensitive information of its corporate and consumer customers. In this video, Google gives a rare behind-the-scenes look at the physical and data security measures that the company uses to protect that data.
Sony officials are now saying that while they’re still unsure whether the attackers behind the recent breach of the PlayStation Network stole customers’ credit-card data, the data itself was indeed encrypted n the database.
Google has released another new version of Chrome that fixes a total of 27 different bugs on various platforms. The company paid out $16,500 in bounties to researchers for the vulnerabilities they reported, including one $3,000 payment for a high-severity bug.
The FBI is warning businesses about an ongoing spate of attacks that are stealing millions of dollars from companies through unauthorized bank transfers to Chinese companies. The fraudulent wire transfers are not a new tactic, but the FBI says the current round of attacks is notable in that virtually all of the transfers are going to shell companies based in China and have cost U.S. businesses $11 million.
The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users.
A pair of Apple customers has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that Apple is invading their privacy by collecting location data about iPhone and iPad users without their knowledge. The suit follows the revelation last week by security researchers that Apple is collecting and storing some location data from users.
A group of researchers has developed a new application that can hide sensitive data on a hard drive without encrypting it or leaving any obvious signs that the data is present. The new steganography system relies on the old principle of hiding valuables in plain sight.
The Iranian government says it is being targeted by a new piece of malware aimed at its federal computers. The disclosure comes a few months after the country’s nuclear facility was hit by the Stuxnet worm, kicking off a frenzy of cyberwar hysteria and speculation.
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