Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, California using credential-stealing spyware. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Cisco Systems has warned of serious vulnerabilities in a device that
connects a building’s ventilation, lighting, security, and energy supply
systems so they can be controlled by IT workers remotely. The networking giant urged users of the Cisco Network
Building Mediator products to patch the vulnerabilities, which among
other things allow adversaries to obtain administrative passwords. Read the full article. [The Register]
Media Temple, Web hosting provider for Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time,
Volkswagen, and Starbucks, was hit with a sophisticated distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Read the full article. [CNET]
A researcher was able to gain unfettered access to
his iPhone 3GS from Ubuntu 10.04. If he connected the device whilst it
was turned off and then turned it on, Ubuntu auto-mounted the file
system and was able to access several folders despite never having
previously been connected to the iPhone. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Researchers from Microsoft have come up a sensor
widget concept that provides alerts and lets users control and monitor
exactly what other users see from their webcams, microphones, and other
live data streams. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Google has pushed out another automatic Chrome browser update to fix multiple security issues that could expose users to hacker attacks.Google Chrome 5.0.375.55, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, addresses at least two “high risk” vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-service crashes.
A second US man has been jailed over controversial denial of service
attacks against the Church of Scientology two years ago. Read the full article. [The Register]
An unusual legal dispute between a Texas bank and a business customer
over the online theft of more than $800,000 from the latter’s account at
the bank has been quietly settled. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Data security and breach prevention ranks low as a risk factor for most
big technical companies, according to new research that identifies the
most widespread concerns among the 100 largest U.S. public technology
companies. Read the full article. [CSO]
There’s a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University
of Calgary computer science researchers. It’s called Typhoid adware and
works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy
carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in
the New York area in the early 1900s. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
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