A consortium of cybersecurity researchers from MIT, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon was announced in Washington D.C. with the stated goal is to collaborate on cybersecurity research including 10 projects, one which is the development of an Internet-scale model on which to perform
constrained experiments not possible on the live Internet. Read the full article. [TechTarget]
Whether Hannaford Bros. customers may recover damages for the time and
trouble it took them to straighten out their bank or credit card
accounts after the Scarborough-based firm’s computer system was
breached in late 2007 and early 2008 now is up to the Maine Supreme
Judicial Court. Read the full article. [Bangor Daily News]
Former United Way employee based in Miami, Luis Robert Altamirano, was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $50,000 for accessing his former employers’ network and deleting “numerous files from UWMD’s servers” and disabling “UWMD’s
telephone voice mail system and prevented UWMD employees from accessing their
voice mail accounts.” Read the full FBI statement.
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]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pressuring a number of Internet service providers to shut off nearly 12 dozen Web sites alleged to be selling counterfeit or unapproved prescription drugs. The agency said none of the sites represent pharmacies located in the United States or Canada, as most claim. Read the full article. [Washington Post]
Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a
federal conspiracy charge for a 2008 stunt that replaced
Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert
Black Jr., 20, as the hackers “EBK” and “Defiant,” known for hijacking
Comcast’s domain name in May of last year — a prank that took down the
cable giant’s homepage and webmail service for more than five hours,
and allegedly cost the company over $128,000. Read the full article. [Wired] Read the Federal indictment.
Microsoft today denied that it has built a
backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a
senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before
Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. “Microsoft has not and will not put ‘backdoors’ into Windows,” a company spokeswoman said. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
The Federal Trade Commission has charged those behind the shady online
check service Qchex with contempt, and wants daily fines imposed on
them until they give up the ghost. The group has launched a new site—a
Qchex clone—with the same questionable policies that made Qchex a
“dinner bell for fraudsters.” This has left the FTC fuming, and it
wants the site’s operators to quit helping criminals rip people off—now. Read the full article. [Ars Technica] Read the FTC complaint.
It’s not a very good day when a security report concludes: Disruptive cyber activities expected to become the norm in future political and military conflicts. But such was the case as the Government Accountability Office took yet another critical look at the US federal security systems and found most of them lacking. Read the full article.
Authorities in the U.K. have arrested two people in connection with using a notorious Trojan in a scheme to steal online banking information. The man and the woman, both 20, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service in Manchester, according to police. The duo is accused of using the Zeus Trojan, also known as Zbot, in a plot to steal information. It is believed the Trojan was configured to record victim’s online bank account information and passwords, as well as credit card numbers and other information. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
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