Sergey Storchak was detained after he landed in
New Delhi on a domestic flight from the southwestern holiday state of
Goa, a police spokesman said. He is one of 11 people wanted by
the U.S. Justice Department in “the largest hacking and identity theft
case ever prosecuted,” which was filed in August 2008. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
In this session from the SOURCE conference in Boston, Chris Hoff of Cisco Systems discusses the current state of cloud computing and what it can tell us about the future of cloud computing.
Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
A security researcher has unearthed a tool that simplifies the process
of building bot armies that take their marching orders from specially
created Twitter accounts. Read the full article. [The Register]
Between January and March 2010, Facebook was the first social networking
site to have made it into the list of top targets for phishing attacks.
With 5.7% of all phishing attacks, Facebook took fourth place behind
the traditional phishing targets PayPal, eBay and international bank
HSBC, said researchers. Read the full article. [The H Security]
For the past 20 months, Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Institute has been measuring referrals from phishing sites to an education page set up by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Hong said the site now receives close to 25,000 referrals per month from phishing sites that brand owners have modified. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Computer scientists at the University of Hertfordshire have found a way
to share information online securely for a fraction of the cost of
existing systems. Researchers working in collaboration with the
University of Aston, have been awarded a UK patent for a fibre optics
system which uses a ‘beacon’ to enable cryptic communication between two
users online. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
IT professionals are fearful that sensitive data will fall into the
wrong hands if cloud-based services are used by their organizations, but
many acknowledge that the risks are being ignored by some employees who
may already be using cloud computing, according to a new survey. Read the full article. [TechTarget]
Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 will support
it, and Microsoft recently touted its advantages. But the upcoming
version of HTML, which builds rich Internet application features into
the Web programming language and shifts more Web functions to the client
machine, also could open up new Web attack vectors. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the release of the BSIMM2 model, the continued maturing of software security programs and the similarities between computer security and cargo cult science.
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