A new approach to adding an encrypted watermark to digital images allows
the an image to be validated against a pass key, according to research according to research published in the International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
Here are six of the more eye-popping
database-related breaches so far this year — and some lessons learned
from each. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Senior engineers at Facebook responsible for SRE (site reliability
engineering) challenged Facebook employees to try to compromise him and
gain access to Facebook’s administrative system via information obtained
from him. They succeeded. Read the full article. [TechCrunch]
Cybercrooks have developed regionally-targeted banking Trojans that are
more likely to slip under the radar of security defenses. Read the full article. [The Register]
A California escrow firm has been forced to take out a pricey loan to
pay back $465,000 that was stolen when hackers hijacked the company’s
online bank account earlier this year. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
The White House has published a draft of a strategy designed to make the concept of trusted identities and authentication more of a reality in the digital world. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
Cryptographic locks guarding the secret files of a Brazilian banker
suspected of financial crimes have defeated law enforcement officials including code breakers at the FBI. Read the full article. [The Register]
A researcher at Black Hat USA next month plans
to give away a homemade tool that helps organizations glean intelligence about the attacker behind the malware that includes information about native tongue, geographic location, and
ties to other attacks. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Operating and planting an ATM skimmer can be a risky venture, because the crooks have to return to the
scene of the crime to retrieve their skimmers along with the purloined
data. Some criminals are now using ATM skimmers that
eliminate much of that risk by relaying the information via text
message. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Two prominent privacy-rights organizations, the Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have launched a new Firefox extension that encrypts all of the browser’s communications with some prominent Web sites.
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