Vulnerabilities
Informant Says Hacks, Threats Followed Release Of Occupy Wall Street E-Mail
Thomas Ryan, the independent security consultant who released a trove of e-mail communications from the Occupy Wall Street protesters, said he has been the target of numerous hacks and has received death threats after revealing information on the protestors plans to authorities.
Oracle to Release 56 Patches, Plus 20 More For Java in October CPU
Oracle on Tuesday plans to release patches for 56 new vulnerabilities in a huge number of its products through its scheduled quarterly critical patch update. The company said that the various vulnerabilities in this month’s CPU affect hundreds of Oracle products.
It looks as if Apple iTunes users who have been the victim of identity theft will have to look for a new knight in shining armor to wring answers from the notoriously close-lipped Cupertino technology giant.
Hacker forums function as a kind of combination training academy, social network and central bazaar for attackers looking for new tools, methods and techniques. They’re also often patrolled by law enforcement agents and security researchers, but it’s rare that any of the information that those people gather ever makes it into the hands of the public. One security company is now laying out some of the details of a year-long observation of a large hacker forum.
Cyber criminals are relying more than ever on mules to move fenced goods from the U.S. to foreign markets for resale, according to a report on krebsonsecurity.com.
Search-engine poisoning has been the bane of many Internet users’ existence for a long time, and it’s one of many security problems that seems to not be getting any better. In some ways, it may be getting worse, actually. One of the main problems these days is the use of legitimate-looking ads that direct users to malicious sites rather than sites to download applications such as Flash or Firefox.
If there’s one thing that can be said about Apple, it’s that the company operates on its own timeline. It does what it pleases at whatever time suits it, and the customers appear. Actually, they don’t simply appear, they wait expectantly and move as one when asked. This has proven to be enormously profitable for Apple and quite satisfying for most of its customers. But the one area where this has not worked so well is security.
The company takes aim at the ubiquitous SpyEye banking trojan with its free Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), saying that the malware is more common than ever, and is being used to grab data from sensitive online sessions.
Research in Motion CTO David Yach said that the rolling service outages that its Blackberry mobile phone system has experienced in the last few days wasn’t due to a security compromise, but to an unsuccessful fail over following a core switch failure in Europe.
