Security News

UK bank details sold in Nigeria
2006-08-15 08:38

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4790293.stm 14 August 2006 Bank account details belonging to thousands of Britons are being sold in West Africa for less than £20 each, the BBC's Real Story...

A Coverity Eye on Firefox Code
2006-08-14 07:16

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3625496 By Sean Michael Kerner August 9, 2006 Mozilla has long relied on its community to help it identify bugs within applications. Now it has...

Hacking The Dead Cow
2006-08-10 05:30

http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3625351 By Sean Michael Kerner August 9, 2006 In the annals of computer "(in)security," few groups are as well known as the Cult of the Dead Cow...

Transportation Department Laptop Stolen
2006-08-10 05:28

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901177.html By Christopher Lee and Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writers August 9, 2006 A laptop computer...

High bidders with low motives
2006-08-09 14:25

http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/high-bidders-with-low-motives/2006/08/07/1154802814862.html By Patrick Grey August 8, 2006 Next THE 21st-century hacker has three options upon discovery of a...

AOL Takes Down Site With Users' Search Data
2006-08-09 14:25

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701150.html By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer August 8, 2006 AOL issued an apology yesterday for posting on a...

Payroll Giant Gives Scammer Personal Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Investors
2006-07-07 09:29

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2160425 By DAN ARNALL ABC News July 6, 2006 The latest corporate data breach is from a company you may never have heard of, even though one in six...

Consultant Breached FBI's Computers
2006-07-06 05:21

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070501489.html By Eric M. Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer July 6, 2006 A government consultant, using computer programs...

Web perils advise switch to Macs
2006-07-06 05:20

Forwarded from: eric wolbrom, CISSP http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5150508.stm BBC News 5 July 2006 Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users...

Stolen VA Laptop and Hard Drive Recovered
2006-06-30 16:37

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062900352.html By Christopher Lee and Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writers June 30, 2006 Federal officials...