IT Security News March 2010
| March 09 2010 Social Media Complicates Work-Life Balance Social media usage has soared not just among the general population but also among at-work Internet users, who are heading to the sites for both personal and professional reasons in greater numbers....[more] | |||||
| March 09 2010 McAfee warns of scareware plague Security firm McAfee has used its first Consumer Threat Alert to advise web users of the dangers of fake anti-virus scams. Malware writers are increasingly using the technique to snare unwary users by presenting pop-up windows appearing to be a security report from a recognised firm....[more] | |||||
| March 09 2010 Excel vulnerabilities revealed on 'slower' Patch Tuesday Following a heavy patch month in February, Microsoft Tuesday announced a lighter load of security bulletins for its users, but security experts say the potential impact is considerable if vulnerabilities aren't addressed....[more] | |||||
| March 09 2010 Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years. By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them....[more] | |||||
| March 08 2010 International Women's Day highlights inequalities in IT International Women's Day has long been a time when the focus shifts to gender inequalities and unequal pay. In the IT sector, concentration tends to centre on the lack of women in the profession and how the industry can be more appealing to half of its resource pool....[more] | |||||
| March 08 2010 Weak security ID questions put e-mail at risk Questions used as security checks on websites need to be replaced by more complex tests to establish a person's identity, say researchers. A study has shown how easy it is to guess the answer to common questions, such as someone's mother's maiden name....[more] | |||||
| March 08 2010 Cyber-Ark to go large on privileged user account security Speaking with Infosecurity at Gartner's Business Process Management Summit in London last week, Bosnian said that version 6.0 of PIMS will be a major step forward for Cyber-Ark, focusing on a privilege user account control....[more] | |||||
| March 08 2010 Cloud computing growing six times faster than traditional IT New research is forecasting continued growth in the cloud computing market - a sector already experiencing more rapid growth than traditional in-house IT. ihotdesk reports that cloud computing is set to become increasingly popular in the coming years, with research firm IDC predicting that the innov...[more] | |||||
| March 07 2010 Government could retaliate over "daily" cyber attacks State-sponsored cyber attacks have escalated to such an extent that the UK may soon be forced to retaliate, according to a new report in The Observer today. Lord West of Spithead, the parliamentary under-secretary for security and counter-terrorism, told the paper that the UK is under daily attack f...[more] | |||||
| March 07 2010 Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs According to researchers at US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC....[more] | |||||
| March 06 2010 Record high for phishing in January January marked a record high for the number of phishing attacks, seeing a 21 per cent increase over the month before, according to the latest figures from security vendor RSA Security....[more] | |||||
| March 06 2010 Overlooked online threats There's the danger you know, and then there's the danger you don't know. Most of us are rightfully wary of downloading and running programs that have no pedigree, or of performing day-to-day operations as an administrative user. But with each passing year, new security threats march in to eclipse th...[more] | |||||
| March 05 2010 Argos buries unencrypted credit card data in email receipts Catalogue firm Argos has been criticised for an email security breach that exposed customers’ credit card details and CCV security numbers. The exposure came to light after an Argos customer who checked his order confirmation email found that his credit card number and security code was buried in th...[more] | |||||
| March 04 2010 McAfee launches real-time threat response service McAfee has formed a new security group from its malware response teams to offer help and advice to organisations about emerging threats. The Vulnerability Detection and Response Group will include input from McAfee's Labs, the office of the chief technology officer and Foundstone Professional Servic...[more] | |||||
| March 04 2010 Apple iPad scam hits Facebook A new scam is targeting Facebook users keen to try out Apple's new iPad, due to go officially on sale later this month, and in April for the 3G model. Graham Cluley's Sophos blog, which highlights internet security concerns, explains the latest scam currently do the rounds....[more] | |||||
| March 04 2010 Google hackers stole source code, researchers Companies should take extra steps to secure their source code from the type of targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, Intel and others over the past few months. That's according to security vendor McAfee, which released a report detailing the way software source code was accessed in some of these...[more] | |||||
| March 04 2010 Lords force rethink of government's online piracy plans The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over measures to tackle online piracy after opponents said the plans could hamper digital innovation. Ministers want the power to change laws on online copyright in future without the need for further legislation....[more] | |||||
| March 04 2010 RSA 2010: Panel mulls security regulation With data breaches and network infiltration attacks increasingly targeting enterprises, a group of security experts weighed the pros and cons of getting the government involved in IT security Wednesday at the 2010 RSA conference in San Francisco....[more] | |||||
| March 04 2010 Hacking human gullibility with social penetration Security penetration testers Mike Bailey and Mike Murray rely plenty on attacks that exploit weaknesses in websites and servers, but their approach is better summed up by the famous phrase "There's a sucker born every minute"....[more] | |||||
| March 03 2010 Brass necked suspect swallows USB evidence A suspected cybercrook who swallowed a USB drive in an apparent bid to destroy evidence has been charged with obstruction. Florin Necula, from New York, ate a Kingston flash drive thought to contain mag strip dumps from credit cards shortly after his arrest outside a bank in Queens on 21 January. He...[more] | |||||
| March 03 2010 Check Point puts VPN in USB stick Check Point has become the latest vendor to push the USB stick as the road warrior's best friend, announcing a way for business travellers to carry around their office desktop on a single drive....[more] | |||||
| March 02 2010 National Theatre customer details affected in hacking More than 17,500 customers of London's National Theatre have been advised to reset their online passwords after the organisation's website was hacked. A spokeswoman for the theatre said there had been a "security incident" which meant an "unauthorised user" accessed customers' online accounts....[more] | |||||
| March 02 2010 Authorities dismantle botnet with 13 million infected PCs One of the world's biggest botnets has been taken down, cracking open a global platform that infiltrated more than half of the Fortune 1000 companies, according to the Associated Press....[more] | |||||
| March 02 2010 RSA 2010: Security fears harming cloud adoption The president of RSA Art Coviello has used his opening keynote at RSA 2010 to warn the industry that it must do more to secure cloud computing. At the moment the adoption of cloud services is being seriously hampered by fears over data security among potential users he said. The security industry ne...[more] | |||||
| March 02 2010 Microsoft exec suggests Internet tax to pay for cyber security How will we ever get a leg up on hackers who are infecting computers worldwide? Microsoft's security chief laid out several suggestions Tuesday, including a possible Internet usage tax to pay for the inspection and quarantine of machines. Today most hacked PCs run Microsoft's Windows operating syste...[more] | |||||
| March 02 2010 Opera 10.50 browser features boosted speed and improved HTML 5 support Opera Software released on Tuesday its Opera 10.50 Web browser, calling it the fastest browser ever produced for Windows computers. Available at Opera's Web site, the browser features the Carakan JavaScript engine as well as the Vega graphics library. Users no longer have to wait for a site to load,...[more] | |||||
| March 02 2010 Don't touch F1 key warns Microsoft Steer clear of the F1 key while surfing the web, at least for a little while. That's the advice from Microsoft for dealing with the latest vulnerability, news of which was posted at the weekend....[more] | |||||
| March 01 2010 RSA 2010: HP shares findings on cloud security study HP has posted the findings of a new study on cloud computing security. The company commissioned the study along with the Cloud Security Alliance as part of the run-up to this year's RSA 2010 conference. The peer-review study examined 29 enterprises, service providers and consulting firms....[more] | |||||
| March 01 2010 Microsoft to target other botnets with legal weapon Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet's command-and-control centers....[more] | |||||
| March 01 2010 Universities protest against government wi-fi plans Libraries and universities are protesting about plans to make them police users of wireless networks. The government's Digital Economy Bill includes plans to make them responsible for what is done over free wi-fi....[more] | |||||
| March 01 2010 UK registry to tighten web security The UK's domain registry Nominet, is set to implement DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), a security protocol designed to protect the DNS (Domain Name System). DNSSEC uses public key cryptography to digitally "sign" the DNS records for websites. It is designed to stop attacks such as cache poisoning,...[more] | |||||
| March 01 2010 Average annual cost of PCI compliance audit? $225k Merchants that undergo network audits to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards are paying an average of $225,000 each year -- and 10% of these business are paying $500,000 or more annually, according to a new study. In spite of that, 2% of them fail these audits....[more] |
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