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Malware gang steal over £700K from one British bank

SPYWARE NEWS - Tue, 08/10/2010 - 13:02
Cybercrooks scoop cash from thousands of accounts

A banking Trojan attack has led to the fraudulent withdrawal of more than $1m from online banking accounts maintained with a UK bank since the start of July, according to security researchers.…

Malware gang steal over £700K from one British bank

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Tue, 08/10/2010 - 13:02
Cybercrooks scoop cash from thousands of accounts

A banking Trojan attack has led to the fraudulent withdrawal of more than $1m from online banking accounts maintained with a UK bank since the start of July, according to security researchers.…

Germany bans BlackBerrys and iPhones on snooping fears

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 08/10/2010 - 12:24
Closed proprietary system not safe for gov

The German government has advised ministers not to use BlackBerry and iPhone devices due to “a dramatic increase of attacks against” its networks.…

Tektronix buys DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 08/10/2010 - 10:35
Boosts network security credentials

Telecoms test and network intelligence firm Tektronix Communications has acquired DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks. The terms of the deal, announced Monday, remain undisclosed.…

Toshiba shows off self-deleting, self-encrypting drive

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 08/10/2010 - 10:19
Unique, but not for long

Neat idea: if you could delete the security key on a self-encrypting drive (SED) then for all practical purposes the data is lost for ever. That's what Toshiba has done, adding a key wipe facility to its SED products.…

How an ancient printer can spill your most intimate secrets

IT SECURITY NEWS - Tue, 08/10/2010 - 07:31
Needles and pins

Researchers have devised a novel way to recover confidential messages processed in doctors' offices and elsewhere by analyzing the sounds made when documents are reproduced on dot-matrix printers.…

Judge halts domain registration scam

IT SECURITY NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 22:59
$4.26m in bogus renewal fees collected

A federal judge has ordered members of a Canadian operation to stop posing as domain-name registrars in scams that collected more than $4.26m in bogus renewal fees from unsuspecting consumers, small businesses, and non-profits.…

Critical jailbreak hole plugged in Foxit Reader

IT SECURITY NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 21:57
Adobe Reader unaffected

The Foxit document reader has been updated to fix the same critical bug that currently leaves iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches wide open to malware attacks.…

Critical jailbreak hole plugged in Foxit Reader

SPYWARE NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 21:57
Adobe Reader unaffected

The Foxit document reader has been updated to fix the same critical bug that currently leaves iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches wide open to malware attacks.…

Critical jailbreak hole plugged in Foxit Reader

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 21:57
Adobe Reader unaffected

The Foxit document reader has been updated to fix the same critical bug that currently leaves iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches wide open to malware attacks.…

Anti-virus defences even shakier than feared

IT SECURITY NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 17:48
Security firms attack 'flawed' tests

Updated  Anti-virus technologies may be even more ineffective than feared, if a controversial new study is to be believed.…

Anti-virus defences even shakier than feared

SPYWARE NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 17:48
Security firms attack 'flawed' tests

Updated  Anti-virus technologies may be even more ineffective than feared, if a controversial new study is to be believed.…

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Anti-virus defences even shakier than feared

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 17:48
Security firms attack 'flawed' tests

Updated  Anti-virus technologies may be even more ineffective than feared, if a controversial new study is to be believed.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Corrupt repair engineer jailed for bank fraud attempt

IT SECURITY NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 12:48
Candid camera outs opportunistic hacker

A corrupt laptop repair engineer has gone to jail for nine months after he was convicted of hacking into the laptop of one of his customers.…

DNS Made Easy rallies after punishing DDoS attack

IT SECURITY NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 11:48
50Gbps of botnet-powered badness

DNS Made Easy has restored services following a vicious denial of service that peaked at 50Gbps on Saturday.…

Big vendors get deadline to fix holes, or face the music

IT SECURITY NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 10:43
Full, responsible, coordinated or no disclosure - take your pick

Analysis  TippingPoint has upped the ante on vulnerability disclosure by giving vendors six months to fix bugs before it goes public with information on flaws.…

Big vendors get deadline to fix holes, or face the music

SPYWARE NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 10:43
Full, responsible, coordinated or no disclosure - take your pick

Analysis  TippingPoint has upped the ante on vulnerability disclosure by giving vendors six months to fix bugs before it goes public with information on flaws.…

Big vendors get deadline to fix holes, or face the music

ANTI-VIRUS NEWS - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 10:43
Full, responsible, coordinated or no disclosure - take your pick

Analysis  TippingPoint has upped the ante on vulnerability disclosure by giving vendors six months to fix bugs before it goes public with information on flaws.…

Hoax Facebook virus makes more trouble than a real virus

ANTI-SPAM NEWS - Fri, 08/06/2010 - 15:09
Don't tell all your friends

A hoax Facebook virus is spreading rapidly across the social network.…

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