A new survey, which may be the first of its kind, has looked at the relative trustworthiness and responsiveness of the various organizations that buy vulnerabilities and found that TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative is rated by researchers as the most trustworthy and is the preferred buyer.
Heartland Payment Systems has made a third
settlement deal, this time with MasterCard, related to a massive data
breach two years ago at the card payments processor. As part of
the deal, Heartland has agreed to pay as much as $41.1 million to
MasterCard issuers that lost money. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]
A federal judge has permanently pulled the plug on a California web
hosting provider accused of harboring a “witches’ brew” of pernicious
content on behalf of child pornographers, spammers, and malware
purveyors. Read the full article. [The Register]
Carders.cc, a German online forum dedicated to helping
criminals trade and sell financial data stolen through hacking, has
itself been hacked. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Federal prosecutors have accused a man of carrying out a series of
botnet offenses including attacks that brought down the websites of
conservative talking heads Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph
Giuliani. Read the full article. [The Register]
A CEO who publicly posted his Social Security number on billboards and
TV commercials as part of a campaign to promote his company’s credit
monitoring services was the victim of identity theft at least 13 times, a
news report says. Read the full article. [Wired]
A serious security vulnerability in Microsoft’s newest operating system could expose users to code execution and denial-of-service attacks, the company warned in an advisory issued late Tuesday.
Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and government assets from hacker attacks.
Physicists have mounted the first successful attack of its kind on a
commercial quantum cryptography system. Read the full article. [Technology Review]
Google’s plans to introduce a Cloud Print service that’s already being hailed as “printer voodoo” because it lets users print to any printer anywhere in the world, even from mobile phones.However, there are some privacy and security implications that need to be fleshed out before end users rush to submit print jobs to Google’s cloud.
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