Once upon an Internet, a security researcher who discovered a vulnerability had very limited options for what to do with that information. He could send it to the vendor and hope someone cared enough to patch it; he could post it to a mailing list for all to see; or, if he had the right […]
As attackers continue to target large databases of passwords and users grow wearier by the day of creating new accounts and login credentials on each site they visit, the larger Web players are positioning themselves as not just social networking or retail hubs, but also as authentication providers. The latest to join this crew is Amazon, which is rolling out a service called Login With Amazon that enables visitors to participating sites to login with their existing Amazon credentials.
Two security engineers for Google say the company will now support researchers publicizing details of critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation just seven days after they’ve alerted a company.
The Drupal Association is urging all users of Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion that breached files holding usernames, e-mail addresses, countries and hashed passwords. Sites that run on Drupal do not appear to be impacted, though the organization stressed an ongoing forensic review may reveal more details and victims. […]
PayPal is in the process of fixing the cross-site scripting flaw on its Web site that was disclosed last week. The teenage researcher who found and disclosed the bug said Wednesday that PayPal security officials told him that someone else had reported the same vulnerability to them earlier and they’re trying to patch it now.
Domains belonging to Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rican payment processor, have been seized by Federal authorities alleging it was a cybercrime money laundering operation.
A 17 year old German schoolboy posted information over the weekend regarding an apparent cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the popular money transfer site PayPal. The problem lies in the site’s search function and at least in the German version of the website can be triggered by using a string of Javascript alert code.
It’s been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery of Flame should be seen as a seminal event in the evolution of malware.
Small and medium-sized businesses are losing a staggering £785 million per year to cybercrime, according to a joint report published by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Home Office and Business Departments in the United Kingdom.
An independent commission focused on the threat of intellectual property from U.S. companies says that between 50 percent and 80 percent of all IP theft originates in China and, in a new report, urges the government to take stronger action against government-sanctioned IP theft. The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property said in […]
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