The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising industry’s input.
The FBI is the country’s top police unit, charged with tackling the biggest problems facing its citizens. Cybercrime, by just about any measure, would fall somewhere near the top of that list of problems.The FBI historically has been ineffective and at times indifferent to all of this. However, there are signs–including the major carder takedown yesterday–that the bureau might just be finding its feet in the fight against malware gangs, botnet operators, carders and other assorted bad guys.
With Wikileaks founder Julian Assange anxiously awaiting word from the government of Ecuador on his request for political asylum, a security researcher warns that the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is handling the Assange asylum request, is using a video conferencing system that is vulnerable to online snooping.
A two-year undercover operation today netted two dozen arrests in eight countries in what federal authorities say is the largest coordinated international takedown in history directed at those who traffic stolen financial data through online forums. The investigation uncovered 411,000 compromised credit and debit cards and saved an estimated $205 million in economic losses. Additionally, 47 companies, government entitites and educational institutions were notified their networks had been breached.
UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Wyndham Hotels for a string of data breaches that resulted in information on hundreds of thousands of customers being lost to cyber criminals.
Two members of the hacker group Lulz Security (LulzSec) pleaded guilty today to taking part in a cyber crime spree that launched attacks against Web sites belonging to law enforcement, corporations and media companies.
Ryan Cleary, 20, of Wickford, Essex and Jake Davis, 19, of Lerwick, Shetland admitted in a London courtroom to two counts of conspiracy to do an unauthorized act or acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, the operation of a computer or computers, according to numerous published reports.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is warning that the U.S. government hasn’t lived up to promises to protect the privacy of Medicare patients who use the federal government’s Prescription Drug Benefit and not following through on promises to audit organizations that store patient health information.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), an independent federal agency that helps regulate futures and option markets, was hit with a data breach last month according to an e-mail statement from the Commission that circulated online late last week.
Summer travel season is well under way and considering the increasingly common reports detailing device seizures and data searches at international borders, you want to be very careful about the things you travel with.
Iran’s intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi claims the country has uncovered a “massive cyber attack” it believes was jointly launched by the United States, England and Israel, according to reports from PressTV, Iran’s state-owned English language news network, yesterday.
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