ProtectMyID: True. This type of identity theft still claims the most victims, although you’re also vulnerable online and through company data sources. View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Government applications still riddled with serious security flaws
The US government sector is markedly worse than private industry at eliminating a range of common but serious flaws from software code, an analysis of real applications submitted for review to testing company Veracode has found. The company found that 75 percent of government applications (including federal, state and local…
Credit card terms still fuzzy
Despite sweeping changes to credit card practices in the last two years, Americans are still stumped by the terms of their cards. That’s one of the key findings this week from the new federal watchdog group, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau . The agency analyzed more than 5,000 complaints it…
WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms’ Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submission System
WikiLeaks is still in the secret-spilling business. But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark. The site on Thursday unveiled a new trove of 287 documents it’s calling the Spy Files, a collection of 287 digital surveillance firms’ marketing…
USB sticks still being used insecurely, Ponemon study finds
USB sticks remain a big security weakness for many UK organisations with many employees using drives for data transport without permission and not bothering to report their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found. The study polled 451 IT staff in the UK from a global total of 2,942 on…
You practice safe computing, so why do you still see malware?
Quite regularly, I get feedback from our customers that they’ve found malware on their computer, and don’t know how it got there. While you may think this is due to malware exploiting unpatched bugs in the Windows operating system, it isn’t: these customers are predominantly using OS X, and they…
Anonymous Still on Track to Expose Cartel, Spokesman Says
After some confusion over whether Anonymous was indeed targeting the Zeta cartel in Mexico, a sometime spokesman for the hacker collective said in a Wednesday YouTube video that the #OpCartel movement will move forward as planned. View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post…
LulzSec still sitting on vast cache of unreleased data
LulzSec, though disbanded, claims to have still a vast cache of hacked email and damaging data stored at its disposal. View full post on lulzsec hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
China Still Spies the Old Fashioned Way, Russia Says
Russians, U.S. accuse China in high-profile espionage cases.By LEE FERRAN View full post on russia cyber attacks – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Despite crackdown, Zeus bank-robbery malware still ‘alive and kicking’
Despite a widespread industry effort to disrupt and shut down the Zeus malware gang, Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool is still finding tens of thousands of machines infected with the notorious banker trojan every month. According to Microsoft, the tool is disinfecting the Zeus malware (also called Zbot) from between…