Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Blogger exposes major Google Wallet security flaw A Google Wallet exploit appears to give hackers access to your prepaid card, merely through changing the PIN
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Trojan can break Yahoo CAPTCHA security in minutes Cridex uses infected PCs as proxies for anti-CAPTCHA engine
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
SQL injection in 97% of data breaches Barclays calls for better information security management to protect against attacks
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dumb luck: Zeus Trojan leaves US$13 million untouched Thieves made off with only US$19,000 instead of millions from a U.S. county. Learning the hard way, now it will isolate a PC from the Internet for online transactions
Monday, January 23, 2012
Anonymous dupes users into joining Megaupload attack Recruits accomplices by spreading links via Twitter that auto-starts attack tool
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Facebook to name and shame Russian Koobface gang Researchers publish identities in face of police inaction
Monday, January 16, 2012
Non-US buyers kept in dark after Zappos data breach Online clothing shop Zappos.com has reset the passwords of over 24 million customers following a security breach
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Group wants to know if India intercepted its emails U.S. commission looking into claims that RIM, Nokia and Apple fell to pressure and gave India backdoor keys for intercepting email
Monday, January 09, 2012
Rickroll emails didn't come from me, Stratfor CEO Stratfor customers receive phishing emails sent in the company's CEO name following data breach
Friday, January 06, 2012
Symantec confirms code leak in enterprise security products 'Presently, we have no indication that the code disclosure impacts the functionality or security of Symantec's solutions,' company says
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Anonymous threatens Sony, spares customers The hacker collective threatens to expose private information of Sony executives, promising to spare customers and the PlayStation Network
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Are your employees the real security threat? Cisco's 2011 Annual Security Report found that employees disregard for security policy could be the biggest risk to organizations
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Security breaches no longer 'fun and games:' Vendor Internet Identity says the commercialization of crimeware was one of the top security trends the company spotted in 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Hacker gets Ice Cream Sandwich onto Kindle Fire The hack is incomplete, lacking support for audio, Wi-Fi, the accelerometer and the light sensor
Monday, December 05, 2011
BB Playbook Gets Rooted, Hulu Comes Along for the Ride Developers rejoice! The BlackBerry PlayBook has finally been rooted, giving access to tinker away
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Surprise! Canadian security study shows fewer breaches Telus and the Rotman School of Management release their fourth annual research, which shows a big drop in incidents but more targeted attacks. Plus: How to Province of Ontario is grappling with increasingly sophisticated malware
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Fake iTunes gift certs could make for a sad Black Friday Security vendor Sophos reports that malware developers are using the lure of a free $50 iTunes gift card to spread malware
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Hungarian nabbed after hacking hotel chain for job After breaking into the computers of Marriott International, man threatened to release its data unless he got an IT job
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Unemployed Romanian accused of hacking into NASA Robert Butyka, 26, allegedly caused US$500,000 damage to NASA's systems
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
FAQ, What's the big deal about Duqu? It could pose a grave threat to the industrial control systems
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Mystery 'virus' disrupts New Zealand ambulance service Malware sends operators back to manual communication
Monday, November 14, 2011
Is the Anonymous threat on Toronto credible? OPINION The City is taking the hacking collective seriously when it threatens to remove Toronto from the Internet if members of the Occupy Toronto movement are evicted.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Think before rushing to fix security holes: Forrester Forrester Research this week published a report that advises security professionals not to jump the gun on fixing security deficiencies immediately after a data breach is identified since that could destroy valuable evidence needed to prosecute cyber-criminals
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Canadian companies 'overconfident' in data security: Study A study commissioned by security software provider Websense has found that a whopping 81 per cent feel “confident” in the security they currently have
Friday, November 04, 2011
High profile hacker gets hacked Marketplace that advertises information allegedly stolen from Websites belonging to the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of Defense broken into, claims group