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Google Wallet PINs easily stolen from rooted devices

February 9th, 2012

 - A researcher at zvelo has discovered that he can recover the PIN used to make payments with Google Wallet in just seconds on a rooted Android device. (continue reading...)

#EpicFail for U.S. student who used keylogger to increase grades

February 9th, 2012

 - 31-year-old student from Warrington admits to trying to improve his grades at Temple University Ambler Campus, near Philadelphia, by hacking into the university’s computerised grading system.

Man charged with NASA hack, on 10th anniversary of Gary McKinnon’s arrest

February 9th, 2012

 - It's ten years since British hacker Gary McKinnon was arrested, and now another hacker has been indicted for allegedly hacking into NASA computers.

Better Business Bureau malware attack spammed out

February 9th, 2012

 - Have you received an email claiming to come from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) today? If you did, be careful.

Is Digital Pearl Harbor THE most tasteless term in IT security?

February 9th, 2012

 - Can hackers really cause as much bloodshed as 353 Imperial Japanese Navy fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers?

Can hackers really kill 2,402 U.S. citizens, leave 1,282 wounded, lose 65 of their (continue reading...)

Hackers fail to extort $50,000 from Symantec, as pcAnywhere source code is published

February 8th, 2012

 - Symantec has confirmed that source code of an old version of pcAnywhere has been published on the net by hackers, as claims are made that the data thieves tried to extort $50,000 from the security (continue reading...)

‘Deleted’ Facebook photos survive online three years later

February 8th, 2012

 - Over two years after the issue was first raised, Facebook has admitted that it's still working on deleting photos from legacy servers in a timely manner.

Which might mean that photos that you wanted to permanently (continue reading...)

Path and Hipster iPhone apps leak sensitive data without notification

February 7th, 2012

 - iPhone app developers Path and Hipster are in hot water after it was discovered they are sending your address book to their servers without permission.

Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 112 – "Evil USB, Detect Unsupported Devices, & Managing Mobile Risk"

February 7th, 2012

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Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 112

Hosts

Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist
Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher
Ron Gula, CEO/CTO

Announcements

New iSeries and AS/400 plugins are being released this week!
Check out our video channel on (continue reading...)

Why is a 14-month-old patched Microsoft vulnerability still being exploited?

February 7th, 2012

 - While the media just looove zero-day exploits, the security industry sees a lot more exploits designed to take advantage of patched vulnerabilities. Question is why don't many of us get around to installing the patches? (continue reading...)

Times Editor apologises for NightJack email hacking

February 7th, 2012

 - The editor of The Times has apologised, after he admitted a journalist had hacked into a serving police officer's email account.

Miss Piggy gives her views on phone hacking scandal

February 7th, 2012

 - At a press conference promoting the new Muppets movie, Kermit the frog declined to comment on the high profile allegations of the media breaking into the mobile phone voicemail systems. (continue reading...)

BBC warns of Heir Hunters email scams circulating

February 7th, 2012

 - Be on the lookout for emails claiming to come from a daytime TV show, after it was discovered that scammers are using the disguise to grab personal information. (continue reading...)

IRS/Quicken spam leads to exploit kits and malware

February 6th, 2012

 - A large volume of spam messages pretending to be from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, are flooding inboxes. Don't click the links, they lead to pages infected by the infamous Blackhole exploit kit. (continue reading...)

Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 111 – "Detecting pcAnywhere, browser vulnerabilities, & hacking cars"

February 6th, 2012

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Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 111

Hosts

Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist
Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher
Ron Gula, CEO/CTO
Jack Daniel, Product Manager

Announcements

Check out our video channel on YouTube that contains the latest Nessus (continue reading...)

What’s all the fuss about ACTA?

February 6th, 2012

 - Widespread protests about ACTA have occurred in Europe. Why is there such anger, and what can be done about it?

SSCC 82 – Sophos Security Threat Report, DMARC and mobile phone number leaks

February 5th, 2012

 - This week, Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about the Sophos Security Threat Report 2012, the new anti-phishing proposal known as DMARC and mobile phone numbers being leaked through HTTP headers at O2. (continue reading...)

DNS Changer infrastructure shutdown is a *good* thing

February 4th, 2012

 - The FBI may shutdown the DNS servers victims of the DNS Changer malware have been using on March 8th. Is this a dangerous action, or is five months to clean up your PC enough? (continue reading...)

Encrypted? Check. Strong passphrase? Check. Mailing them together? Oops.

February 3rd, 2012

 - Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.

Is Google Bouncer going to bounce all malware from the Android Market?

February 3rd, 2012

 - Google has pleasantly surprised the mobile malware research community when it announced yesterday that Android apps are analysed for malicious behavior before being allowed onto the Android Market, but is it all good news? Vanja (continue reading...)

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