Researchers in the School of Electronics and Computer Science of the University of Southampton have come up with a means for identifying ears with a success rate of 99.6%. Read the full article. [MIT Technology Review]
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to
seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their
ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as
people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Read the full article. [The New York Times]
Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its GMAIL messaging service about wide spread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist.
The Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance heard testimony on from several witnesses yesterday regarding the proposed national data breach legislation, including Maneesha Mithal of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Mark Bregman, CTO of Symantec. Read the full article. [Infosecurity]
A new report out from security testing firm Veracode suggests that reused and third party code is a big source of application insecurity.
By Alex RothackerSince 2008, higher education institutions have experienced a staggering 158 data breaches resulting in over 2.3 million reported records compromised. In 2009 alone there were 57 reported data breaches, and year to date through July of 2010, there have already been 32 breaches.
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Long Beach, California man who helped funnel stolen cash to a global network of
hackers and carders was sentenced Thursday to 6 years in prison for
conspiracy to launder money.
Cesar Carranza, 38, sold MSR-206’s to carders to encode stolen bank card
data onto blank cards, and he served as a conduit to transmit stolen
money between mules and carders. Read the full article. [Wired]
Fifty-three individuals were charged today in connection with
widespread, sophisticated identity theft and fraud, including 43
individuals charged with participating in one large-scale criminal
enterprise, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman and FBI Special Agent
in Charge Michael B. Ward announced. Read the full statement. [FBI Newark]
The U.S. and its NATO allies should build a ‘cyber shield’ to protect against future attacks, the Pentagon’s #2 man said in a speech in Brussels.
Microsoft patched a zero day vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler that was used by Stuxnet and says that cross vendor cooperation may be the silver lining to the Stuxnet attack.
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