Two developers have refined techniques for rummaging through browser
histories to the extent that web sites can now find out what articles a
user has recently read on news sites, their exact postcode and which
search terms that have entered into search engines. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Beta customers named in two click fraud lawsuits Microsoft filed this week maintain their innocence, and both say they assisted
the software company in investigating the source of the problem. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
An e-mail with the subject “See Office 2010 Beta in action” uses an
alleged Office 2010 Beta version used as bait. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the company “screwed up” when it
equipped its world-roving Street View cars with software code that spent
three years capturing personal data from open Wi-Fi networks.
“Let me just say: We screwed up,” Brin told a room full of reporters
this afternoon at the company’s annual developer conference in San
Francisco. “I’m not going to make excuses about this.” Read the full article. [The Register]
A trio of researchers who
discovered vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls and in Cisco and McAfee
security management software will demonstrate proof-of-concept attacks
against these products at the upcoming Black Hat USA conference. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Heartland Payment Systems has made a third
settlement deal, this time with MasterCard, related to a massive data
breach two years ago at the card payments processor. As part of
the deal, Heartland has agreed to pay as much as $41.1 million to
MasterCard issuers that lost money. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
A federal judge has permanently pulled the plug on a California web
hosting provider accused of harboring a “witches’ brew” of pernicious
content on behalf of child pornographers, spammers, and malware
purveyors. Read the full article. [The Register]
Carders.cc, a German online forum dedicated to helping
criminals trade and sell financial data stolen through hacking, has
itself been hacked. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Federal prosecutors have accused a man of carrying out a series of
botnet offenses including attacks that brought down the websites of
conservative talking heads Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph
Giuliani. Read the full article. [The Register]
A CEO who publicly posted his Social Security number on billboards and
TV commercials as part of a campaign to promote his company’s credit
monitoring services was the victim of identity theft at least 13 times, a
news report says. Read the full article. [Wired]
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