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]
A scareware purveyor has brazenly advertised for recruits on a
mainstream job market website. A job ad on Freelancer.com offers work for a coder prepared to turn his hand to the creation of fake anti-virus website redirection scripts. Read the full article. [The Register]
A researcher has developed a new type of phishing attack that takes advantage of the way that browsers handle tabbed browsing and enables an attacker to use a script running in one tab to completely change the content in another tab. The attack, demonstrated by Aza Raskin of Mozilla, could be used for highly targeted attacks against customers of a specific bank, Webmail service or credit-card company.
In this video, Aza Raskin of Mozilla demonstrates a new class of phishing attack in which the attacker is able to use malicious code in one browser tab to completely change the content in another tab on a victim’s browser.
Nearly one-third of all identity theft victims
say they are unable to completely clear up damaged credit or criminal
records in the aftermath of their identities being abused. But the good
news is they’re spending much less time and money cleaning up the fraud
perpetrated against them in their names, according to a newly released
report. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
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