Spammer Gets Over 4-Year Sentence
Alan M. Ralsky, the “Godfather of Spam,” was sentenced to 51 months in prison for long term involvement in pump and dump schemes. Read the full article. [Washington Post]
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Facebook Blocks XXX Clickjacking
Facebook administrators have blocked a clickjacking exploit that
displayed images of a scantily clad woman on profile pages without
first prompting the user for permission. Read the full article. [The Register]
93 Vulnerabilities Found in VMware
VMware has advised of a total of 93 vulnerabilities in several of its products, including ESX Server, Server, VirtualCenter and vCenter. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Security researchers have identified a new worm spreading across
Facebook, luring people out to adult Web sites and automatically
replicating itself across people’s profile pages. Read the full article. [internetnews.com]
With version 10.10 (Opera Unite) of its browser, Opera has fixed a format string vulnerability which can potentially be exploited to compromise systems. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Beginning in March, personal identifiable data of customers and employees in Massachusetts will be required to be encrypted on any mobile device such as laptops or portable USB drives. Read the full article. [EnterpriseNews]
Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, a DBA has been convicted of hacking his former employer GEXA Energy following his guilty plea to intruding into his employer’s computer database system. Read the full article. [Databreaches.net]
Researchers, analysts and experts weighed in on what they believe will be the security features of IE9 at the PDC Developer’s Conference. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a
unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency
identification tags.
The latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser contains
a bug that can enable serious security attacks against websites that
are otherwise safe. The flaw in IE 8 can be exploited to introduce XSS, or cross-site
scripting, errors on webpages that are otherwise safe. Read the full article. [The Register]
