When the final version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 hits desktops later this year, it will bring with it new functionality designed to allow users to automatically clear Flash cookies after a Web session. But while the feature may be lauded in the name of privacy, it may also force online banks to change how they fight fraud. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
A new technique allows medical records to be used for research on the
genetics of disease while still protecting patients from prying eyes. The new method disguises parts of the medical history data that are not
relevant to a geneticist’s particular research question using an
algorithm that combs through health records and makes some aspects of
them more general. Read the full article. [ScienceNews]
The Black Hat security conference will kick off next week in Barcelona, with training sessions and briefings from some of the most talented security researchers in the industry. Facebook’s chief security officer, Max Kelly, is scheduled for a keynote presentation on Wednesday morning following two days of training sessions. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
A group of sophisticated identity thieves managed to steal more than $4
million by filing bogus tax returns using the names and Social Security
numbers of other people, many of them deceased, according to a 74-count
indictment unsealed in Arizona. Read the full article. [Wired]
A proposal to let Internet service providers conceal the contact
information for their business customers is drawing fire from a number
of experts in the security community, who say the change will make it
harder to mitigate the threat from spam and malicious software. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Former State of Pennsylvania CISO Robert Maley has been watching all the news about his firing for talking about a security incident without permission at last month’s RSA conference. He began a talk on application security at CSO Perspectives 2010 by going off topic and addressing the controversy head on. Read the full article. [CSO]
The level of information security in systems run by some companies that
want to be linked electronically with the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) is so rudimentary that it is “almost
embarrassing,” said Julie Boughn, CMS’ chief information officer. Read the full article. [Federal Computer Week]
Romanian police have arrested 70 suspected cybercrooks, thought to be
members of three gangs which allegedly used compromised eBay accounts
to run scams. Read the full article. [The Register]
A rash of home foreclosures and abandoned dwellings had already taken its toll on the tax revenue for the Village of Summit, a town of 10,000 just outside Chicago. Then, in March, computer crooks broke into the town’s online bank account, making off with nearly $100,000. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Espionage network GhostNet, first identified about a year ago, is much larger and more sophisticated than previously assumed according to a study entitled “Shadows in the Cloud”, by the Munk Centre for International Studies, the Information Warfare Monitor, the SecDev Group and the Shadowserver Foundation. Read the full article. [The H Security]
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