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Customers liable for lossesThe banking industry has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking customers responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or anti-phishing protection. New Banking Codes for consumers and businesses took effect on Monday.… read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:48:27 -0500 (CDT)http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39448526,00.htmBy Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk17 July 2008 Researchers led by BT security expert Bruce Schneier have shown that deniable file systems — designed to hide data so effectively that there is no trace of its existence on a user's system — may not be so deniable after all, due to the interference of standard applications and of the operating system itself.The resear read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:06:43 -0500 (CDT)http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/At_last_govt_cracks_BlackBerry_code/articleshow/3510719.cmsBy Niranjan BharatiET Bureau22 Sep, 2008NEW DELHI: The government has decrypted the data on Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry networks. The department of telecommunication (DoT), Intelligence Bureau and security agency National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) have done tests on service providers such as Bharti Airtel read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:16:04 -0600 (CST)http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9129978By Gregg KeizerMarch 18, 2009ComputerworldCharlie Miller, the security researcher who hacked a Mac in two minutes last year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his time today by breaking into another Mac in under 10 seconds.Miller, a principal analyst at Independent Security Evaluators LLC, walked read more »
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A pie in the face of Microsoft (and everyone else)RSA The New Zealand version of Microsoft's MSN website was briefly hijacked after attackers penetrated that country's prominent domain name registrar. Websites for Sony, BitDefender, and HSBC were also commandeered.…Whitepaper - Making flexible working work for you read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:10:22 -0500 (CDT)http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/17/fresh-iran-protests-planned1By Ian Black, Robert Tait & Mark Tranguardian.co.uk17 June 2009 Iran was braced for a fifth day of unrest today as the government intensified its crackdown on opposition figures with the arrest of dozens of leading critics and issued a further warning against reporting of the protest movement.Saeed Laylaz, a leading journalist and a critic of gov read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:20:14 -0500 (CDT)http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648494429082661.htmlBy RACHEL EMMA SILVERMANThe Wall Street JournalJuly 2, 2009For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patt read more »
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News Analysis: Although Mac OS X is considered by many to be the most secure operating system available to end users, it does suffer from security issues. Perhaps the new malware detector in Apple's news Mac OS X Snow Leopard release will help prove that. - Mac OS X is viewed by many as the most secure operating system on the market. It's certainly considered far more secure than Microsoft's Windows operating system. But with a report hitting the wire Wednesday claiming Apple's new Mac OS X release, read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:33:28 -0500 (CDT)http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137177/New_attack_cracks_common_Wi_Fi_encryption_in_a_minute?taxonomyId=17By Robert McMillanAugust 27, 2009IDG News ServiceComputer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WP read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:01:14 -0500 (CDT)http://gcn.com/articles/2009/08/24/gcn-lab-review-mantech-crowbar.aspxBy John Breeden IIGCN.comAug 21, 2009Pros: Easy to use, can set up password crack groups for greater hacking speedCons: Only works with MMC/SD cardsPerformance: AEase Of Use: AFeatures: CValue: CPrice: $2,300Sometimes breaking into a place requires a lock pick, and sometimes it requires a crowbar. In this case, the crowbar is not a chunk of steel but a read more »
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135 million words in 20 minutesA security researcher has unveiled a low-cost service for penetration testers that checks the security of wireless networks by running passwords against a 135-million-word dictionary.…What is your recession sales strategy? read more »
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