An unusual legal dispute between a Texas bank and a business customer
over the online theft of more than $800,000 from the latter’s account at
the bank has been quietly settled. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Data security and breach prevention ranks low as a risk factor for most
big technical companies, according to new research that identifies the
most widespread concerns among the 100 largest U.S. public technology
companies. Read the full article. [CSO]
There’s a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University
of Calgary computer science researchers. It’s called Typhoid adware and
works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy
carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in
the New York area in the early 1900s. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
A scareware purveyor has brazenly advertised for recruits on a
mainstream job market website. A job ad on Freelancer.com offers work for a coder prepared to turn his hand to the creation of fake anti-virus website redirection scripts. Read the full article. [The Register]
Nearly one-third of all identity theft victims
say they are unable to completely clear up damaged credit or criminal
records in the aftermath of their identities being abused. But the good
news is they’re spending much less time and money cleaning up the fraud
perpetrated against them in their names, according to a newly released
report. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
After more than two years, Apple’s Safari browser for Macs remains
vulnerable to attacks that allow websites to litter a user’s hard drive
with thousands of malicious files. The “carpet bomb” vulnerability was publicly disclosed in May 2008 after members of Apple’s security team said they didn’t consider the quirk a security issue. Read the full article. [The Register]
For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a
mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing
security updates. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Today’s attackers care less about the browser you use and more about
whether your third-party browser add-ons and plugins are out-of-date and
exploitable. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Last month Adrian Lamo, a man once hunted by the FBI, did something
contrary to his nature. He picked up a payphone outside a Northern
California supermarket and called the cops. Read the full article. [Wired]
Shifty sorts have created a new worm which spread rapidly on Facebook. The malware, for now at least, does nothing more malicious than
posting a message on an infected user’s Facebook wall that point to a
site called fbhole.com. Nonetheless, the speed of its spread on the
social networking site has net security experts worried. Read the full article. [The Register]
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