IT Security News July 2009
| July 03 2009 Hackers take aim at Cold Fusion A new wave of web attacks is targeting web applications written with the ColdFusion development tool. Researchers with security group SANS said that the company has received multiple reports of attacks which target vulnerabilities in older versions of the ColdFusion development application....[more] | |||||
| July 03 2009 Do You Know Where Your Data Is? When employees leave a job, none should have access to proprietary data and organizational information. However, according to a survey by Cloakware, 14% of former company employees still have access to such information. The question is: What do data center and IT managers at SMEs need to be doing to...[more] | |||||
| July 03 2009 IT managers are overconfident in their ability to prevent data breach threats from zombie accounts A global survey of 236 business managers from large enterprises – more than half from companies with at least 10,000 employees - reveals that 53% of IT managers are largely unaware of employee access rights to systems. This causes a proliferation of zombie accounts – accounts that remain active afte...[more] | |||||
| July 03 2009 iPhone hacker reveals SMS vulnerability A security researcher has unveiled a new iPhone SMS vulnerability, according to reports out of the SyScan Conference in Singapore. Presenting at the show, Charlie Miller, a well-known Mac hacker who works for Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators, released only minor details about the flaw...[more] | |||||
| July 02 2009 Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems The grainy video shows a bleary-eyed young man in a hoodie inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas. As he hits the elevator button, the theme music from Mission Impossible plays in the background. "You're on a mission with me: Infiltration," he says to the camera....[more] | |||||
| July 02 2009 Facebook unveils new privacy options Social networking giant Facebook is planning to once again overhaul its privacy controls. Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said in a company blog posting that the new privacy options would be designed to simplify management while giving users greater control over what information is shared with oth...[more] | |||||
| July 02 2009 Chinese security company shares huge malware database A Chinese company that has created a massive database of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday....[more] | |||||
| July 01 2009 Workplaces set to get 'smarter' Today work is somewhere you travel to - in the future work will come to you. So says a report attempting to work out what the offices and workplaces of 2030 will be like....[more] | |||||
| July 01 2009 Torrentreactor breach serves potent exploit cocktail Torrentreactor has long been regarded as one of the top bit torrent search engines, and with the demise of The Pirate Bay, it's likely bigger than ever. Now, it's been breached and is serving a potent cocktail of exploits to people browsing the site, Websense Security Labs says....[more] | |||||
| July 01 2009 Conficker left Manchester unable to issue traffic tickets Manchester City Council was prevented from issuing hundreds of motoring penalty notices in time after the infamous Conficker worm knocked out parts of its IT systems....[more] |
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