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Pranksters inflitrate live MacWorld feed
Blasphemy on Jobsian high holy day
As unfounded as they may be, reports of Steve Jobs's demise have spread to a live feed of MacWorld provided by Apple gossip site MacRumors after griefers managed to breach the website's security.…
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Bogus LinkedIn profiles punt malware to fools
Beyoncé's not your friend, you berk
Bogus profiles on social networking website LinkedIn are punting malware to the credulous and starstruck.…
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Google picks up third spot in spam-friendly shame list
Blogspot exploits and Gmail scams slammed
Google has leapfrogged Microsoft to reach third place in a blacklist of spam-friendly ISPs, compiled by anti-spam organisation Spamhaus.org.…
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Israel hacks Arab TV station
Cyberspace becomes battleground in Gaza conflict
Israeli military forces have reportedly hacked into a Hamas-run TV station to broadcast propaganda.…
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Twitter's veracity chewed up by Britney's four-foot vagina
Attack of the Tweats
Micro-blogging site Twitter had to temporarily suspend accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Britney Spears and other celebrities after they were hijacked by miscreants and used to spread scandalous and false information that appeared to come from their owners.…
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Boffin brings 'write once, run anywhere' to Cisco hijacks
Curse of the ROMmon
A researcher has discovered a way to reliably exploit a known security vulnerability in a wide class of Cisco System routers, a finding that for the first time allows attackers to hijack millions of devices with a single piece of code.…
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SMS bug: Nokia's Conversation goes mute
Not a word, so far
Comment Did you have a quiet Christmas? What about New Year? While New Years Eve is the busiest time for text messages, maybe you didn’t get any. And if you're a Nokia user, there may be a reason for that.…
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Nokia 'Curse of Silence' SMS exploit uncovered
Old bug, new tricks
Mobile phone security vendors were rejoicing last night when it emerged that an obscure bug in an old version of the Symbian OS could allow an attacker to crash a target's mobile phone with a specially-formatted text message.…
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DECT wireless eavesdropping made easy
Security bypass attack
Conversations relayed through cordless household phones might be far easier to snoop upon than previously suspected.…
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2008: A year of cowboys in IT security
The good, the bad and the ugly
Security pundits are fond are characterising personalties in information security with reference to Westerns - hence hackers wear either a "black hat" or a "white hat" like their cowboy counterparts.…
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Boffins bust web authentication with game consoles
PS3 fleet spoofs SSL certs
Researchers have uncovered a weakness in the internet's digital certificate system that allows them to forge counterfeit credentials needed to impersonate virtually any website that relies on the widely used security measure.…
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Windows Media Player flaw denied
Security pantomime
Researchers reckon a security bug in Windows Media Player creates a means for hackers to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems. However Microsoft has denied this, saying that the bug only creates a means to crash the software without posing a more damaging security risk.…
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Google Calendar phishing scam surfaces
Mark your diary
Fraudsters are using Google's Calendar service as a means to develop a new strain of phishing scam.…
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RBS WorldPay breach exposes 1.5 million
Payment processor buries bad news
RBS WorldPay belatedly admitted last week that hackers broke into its systems.…
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CastleCops shuts up shop
Sad demise of volunteer security community
Updated CastleCops, the volunteer security community, has called it a day.…
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CA issues no-questions asked Mozilla cert
Snafu highlights wider trust problem
Security researchers have uncovered weaknesses in low-assurance digital certificates that create a means for miscreants to mount more convincing man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.…
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Samsung digital picture frame CD infected by virus
You've been iframed
Christmas gifts of Samsung Digital Picture frames could come with the unwelcome gift of malware, Amazon has warned.…
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Accused Scareware mongers held in contempt of court
Fined $8,000 a day
A federal judge has fined a Belize-based company $8,000 for each day it continues to flout his order to halt a major internet operation alleged to have duped more than 1 million computer users into buying bogus malware protection.…
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Scareware mongers hitch free ride on Microsoft.com and others
Attack of the open redirects
Miscreants are exploiting weaknesses in more than one million webpages operated by the federal government, media companies, and even Microsoft to trick unwitting visitors into installing harmful software that takes over their computers.…
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Oil software exec pleads guilty to hacking charges
Unauthorised drilling in a protected area
A top manager at a US software developer has avoided jail after pleading guilty to lifting password-protected files from the website of a business rival.…
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MS (finally) confirms unpatched SQL Server flaw
Exploit code for 0day fails to ping on Redmond's radar
Microsoft came clean and admitted its SQL Server database software is vulnerable to code injection attacks. It's not a new flaw but the same bug in the database software that emerged around the time of Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday update earlier this month.…
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Datacash tracks down the 3rd Man
If I offered you twenty thousand pounds £3.25m...
Payment service provider Datacash has offered £3.25m to buy UK-based credit card fraud experts the 3rd Man. The offer, announced Monday, represents 30p per share, a 18 per cent premium of 3rd Man's trading price on 22 November.…
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Home Office death list 'stops ID fraud'
I impersonate dead people
The Home Office today said its new weekly register of deaths mailout is "hastening the demise of a cruel type of identity fraud" by catching pension cheats who impersonate dead people.…
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Prolific penis-pill pusher gets slap on the wrist
Billions served
A New Zealand man said to be at the helm of one of the world's most prolific spam enterprises has agreed to pay fines totalling $92,715 (about US $63,400) after admitting his role in an operation that spewed billions of junk messages in recent years.…
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Transit agency to work with hackers who found vulns
First gagged, now recruited
A New England transit agency has vowed to work with three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates whom it had previously sued when they discovered serious flaws in the agency's electronic payment systems.…
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