Vulnerabilities

With the release of Firefox 5 earlier this week, Mozilla has finally added its Do Not Track privacy feature to the company’s flagship browser. The feature, aimed at customizing how users browsing behavior is tracked is the first of its kind that can be implemented across multiple platforms, including Android phones, according to a post on the Mozilla Blog on Tuesday.

By Tyler Shields, VeracodeIt’s not that users “don’t want to keep their data safe”. They do. Most corporate users don’t want their personal or corporate, private information, available to someone else. They don’t want their email stolen or their contacts pillaged. So why do people insist on ignoring the multitude of security recommendations on how to have a more secure mobile work environment? The answer to this question is that inside, users really just don’t care.

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries.

This is the second in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary FederalIn the second half of his exclusive interview with Threatpost, former HBGary CEO Aaron Barr – speaking before the arrest of alleged Lulzsec member Ryan Cleary in the UK –  talked about the likely law enforcement reaction to the Anonymous and Lulzsec hacks, the mainstream media’s portrayal of the hack of HBGary, as well as how he was picking up the pieces after the embarrassing hack of his employer.

The FBI has issued some 19,000 uninstall commands to the computers of 24 individuals infected by the Coreflood botnet, effectively purging their machines of that malware, and leaving behind no unintended consequences thus far according to a report from Brian Krebs.

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), according to a statement released by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU).

Web host and domain name registry Network Solutions reports that all of its systems are working today following two denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week. The first DDoS attack hit their services Monday afternoon, June 21, while a consecutive attack occurred on Tuesday morning, June 21.