Seven restaurants in Louisiana and Mississippi, have filed a class-action suit
against Georgia-based Radiant Systems for producing a point-of-sale
(POS) system that they say was not compliant with payment card industry
security standards and resulted in an undetermined number of customers
having their debit and credit card numbers stolen by a Romanian hacker. Read the full article. [Wired]
Whether Hannaford Bros. customers may recover damages for the time and
trouble it took them to straighten out their bank or credit card
accounts after the Scarborough-based firm’s computer system was
breached in late 2007 and early 2008 now is up to the Maine Supreme
Judicial Court. Read the full article. [Bangor Daily News]
The free Picviz tool from the Honeynet Project takes data from various log analysis sources and converts them into a multidimensional visual map of events. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
A U.S. district court judge has ordered the largest “spam gang” in the
world to pay nearly $15.2 million for sending unsolicited e-mail
messages marketing male-enhancement pills, prescription drugs, and
weight-loss supplements, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Read the full article. [InfoWorld]
The notorious information-stealing Zeus trojan is currently spreading via drive-by download. Those behind Zeus, or Zbot, recently began circulating spam claiming to
come from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), requesting users submit a
“tax refund request form” by clicking on a link that is provided. Read the full article. [SC Magazine]
Security experts are warning of a new malicious spam campaign with a Trojan Horse designed to harvest the log-in credentials of online gamers with sexually explicit images of Asian women. Read the full article. [SC Magazine]
Researchers have released code that can compromise
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, but the software is not as
reliable as first thought. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Former United Way employee based in Miami, Luis Robert Altamirano, was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $50,000 for accessing his former employers’ network and deleting “numerous files from UWMD’s servers” and disabling “UWMD’s
telephone voice mail system and prevented UWMD employees from accessing their
voice mail accounts.” Read the full FBI statement.
Using Internet Explorer and a virtual PDF generator to print a PDF file
from a HTML page causes the document’s entire storage path, for example
file://C:UsersdabDownloadsdocument.pdf, to be stored in the document itself. Read the full article. [The H Security]
The latest malware spam email requests users to click on Flash download and install the “flashinstaller.exe,” but it has banking trojan behind it. Read the full article. [HelpNet Security]
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