Citigroup Attackers Used Simple, Clever Entry Point
The technique hackers used to break into Citigroup’s network last month was at once clever and simpler than security researchers expected, a report from the New York Times says.
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Avoiding the Privacy Apocalypse
Google has been criticized widely for its privacy practices, and some of the harshest critiques have come from outside privacy advocates. In this video, Simon Davies and Gus Hosein of Privacy International discuss the ways in which companies such as Google that have large amounts of user data can avoid serious privacy problems.
Researcher Creates Database of 35 Million Identifiable Google Profiles
A Dutch researcher has discovered that he could convert most of the data within Google Profiles into a single SQL statement and expose, among other data, the usernames and Gmail addresses of some 35,000,000 people.
By Peter Hesse
I engaged in a long twitter conversation with Daniel Kennedy the other
day, and it made me realize that I have little faith in the information security industry right now. The industry does not seem to be evolving as fast
as the threats against information security are.
A former Bank of America employee was sentenced to twenty seven
months in prison after installing software on the bank’s computers that
allowed him to steal thousands of dollars from ATMs, according to an
Associated Press report.Rodney Reed Caverly of Mint Hill, N.C.
was ordered to pay $419,310.90 in restitution, according to the U.S.
Attorney’s office in Charlotte. Caverly, who worked for BOA’s IT
department, plead guilty last year after it was discovered he’d
programmed certain BOA ATMs “to make fraudulent and unauthorized
disbursements of cash.”
In the aftermath following April’s mammoth Sony PlayStation Network breach, the company’s Chief Executive warns of a “bad new world” of cyber crime in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
The White House on Thursday proposed a new federal data breach notification law in an attempt to clarify a mish-mash of laws already on record. The notification comes as part of a much-delayed cybersecurity legislative proposal unveiled on Capitol Hill this week.
A student at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology
(RIT) has been arrested for producing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
fake coupons and posting them to 4chan and other websites.
Lucas Henderson, a 22-year old computer security student
from Lubbock, Texas was charged with wire fraud and trafficking counterfeit
goods when he turned himself into a Rochester, New York federal court on
Wednesday.
By Alex RothackerSony’s PlayStation Network was breached between April 17 and April 19 and was taken offline by Sony on April 20. At the time of this writing, the service is still not available and it might not be available until the end of May. Much speculation has ensued on what has actually happened and the information released by Sony does not always match up with what is published elsewhere in print or on the Internet. What is clear is that more than 70 million user records have been stolen.
After a bruising series of revelations about location tracking features on mobile devices running their operating systems, Apple and Google will send executives to Capitol Hill to talk to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law about cell phone privacy.
