Consumer Threats

"Nine-Ball" mass injection attack compromised 40,000 sites

Angela Moscoritolo June 18, 2009

A new threat dubbed "Nine-Ball" has compromised up to 40,000 legitimate websites, which are, in turn, infecting users with an information-stealing Trojan, according to security vendor Websense.
 

Microsoft says password stealers pose biggest threat

Angela Moscaritolo February 24, 2009

The top two threat families on Microsoft's detection and removal list this month are online game password stealers (PWS).
 

Underage children 'are regular visitors to networking sites'

Joy Persaud August 07, 2008

Social networking groups should do more to prevent underage users from accessing them, warns an IT security company.
 

Sloppy identity verification 'must make firms liable for fraud'

Joy Persaud August 07, 2008

Organisations that hold personal data should be made liable for fraudulent transactions, say BT security experts.
 

Study: Security flaws threaten online banking

Sue Marquette Poremba July 29, 2008

More than 75 percent of bank websites have at least one design flaw that could lead to the theft of customer information, according to a recent University of Michigan study.
 

New trojan in the wild targeting multimedia files

Negar Salek July 15, 2008

A new trojan in the wild is infecting multimedia files on a victim's hard disk.
 

Multiple vendors cooperate to issue DNS design flaw fix

Dan Kaplan July 09, 2008

A massive domain name server (DNS) design vulnerability that could permit cache poisoning - effectively allowing an attacker to direct users to the website of his choosing - is set to be fixed by an unprecedented synchronized series of multivendor patches.
 

Microsoft investigates ActiveX public exploits

Dan Kaplan July 08, 2008

Microsoft said on Monday that attackers are exploiting a zero-day ActiveX vulnerability in the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.
 

Mozilla set to develop risk model for software development

Dan Kaplan July 08, 2008

Mozilla is trying to refute the notion that the buggier the software, the less secure it is.
 

Steganography developers turn their attention to hiding information in VoIP

Richard Thurston July 04, 2008

The abundance of voice over IP equipment has led researchers to develop a range of techniques which, instead of hiding information in standard data traffic, will allow individuals to instead hide information in VoIP streams
 

Indian Government withdraws threat over BlackBerry services

Richard Thurston July 04, 2008

The threat which could have led to the country's BlackBerry services being suspended appears to have lifted after the Government backed down on its own demands for access to users' data
 

HMRC breach would have been avoided for just £15,000

Richard Thurston July 03, 2008

The catastrophic loss of information of 25 million UK citizens last year would have been avoided if Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs had spent a maximum of £15,000 on the extraction of data, but it turned down this expenditure because information security was such a low priority, one of the breach investigators revealed today
 

Data watchdog admits to deluge of Central Government breach info

Richard Thurston July 03, 2008

The Information Commmissioner's Office has revealed it has been voluntarily informed of a huge number of security breaches - mostly in Westminster - while it eyes up plans for a new law which could make the reporting of such incidents compulsory
 

PCI standard widened to include unattended point-of-sale terminals

Richard Thurston July 02, 2008

Terminals such as those found in vending machines and on fuel pumps are to be included in additional guidelines to be written by the PCI Security Standards Council, producing extra demands on retailers
 

Apple updates OS X to address security and performance issues

Richard Thurston July 01, 2008

OS X Leopard gets a new version as the Mac maker moves to improve reliability and squash a whole hatful of vulnerabilities
 

Europe just "weeks" away from data sharing deal with FBI

Richard Thurston July 01, 2008

Brussels insiders have confirmed that the European Commission is nearing the conclusion of talks with the Americans over the provision of citizens' personal information to the FBI for terrorism fighting purposes
 

Deadline arrives for latest PCI standard requirement

Sue Marquette Poremba July 01, 2008

Companies that aren't in compliance with PCI DSS Section 6.6 risk fines and other losses that could reach into the millions of dollars
 

Exclusive: Privacy campaigners may sue EC over provision of citizens' personal data to the FBI

Richard Thurston June 30, 2008

A leading civil rights organisation is threatening the European Commission with legal action as Brussels nears an agreement with the US over plans to release details of individuals' credit card histories and internet browsing habits to the FBI
 

Poynter review: HMRC has radically reduced security risks

Richard Thurston June 26, 2008

PwC chairman Kieran Poynter, the man tasked to investigate what happened in the catastrophic HMRC data breach, has revealed that significant progress has been made since the disastrous information leakage last October
 

Pacific island knocked off internet by DDoS attack

Richard Thurston June 26, 2008

The Marshall Islands have been subjected to a prolonged bout of unexpected email traffic, preventing citizens receiving emails, but the reason for the attack remains unclear
 

Scotland loses details of nearly one million 999 calls

Richard Thurston June 24, 2008

Parcel courier TNT has lost a disk containing extensive details of emergency calls made in Scotland over the last two years
 

Euro 2008's 'Malicious XI' revealed

Richard Thurston June 23, 2008

McAfee has analysed the way professional footballers' names are being cited by unsafe websites, and has produced a list of those players whose names are most likely to give fans a malware headache
 

Voice biometrics wins cautious early acceptance

Richard Thurston June 03, 2008

Consumers are warming to the idea of using their voice to gain access to their private information, but widespread concerns persist
 

Facebook faces accusations of 22 privacy violations

Richard Thurston June 02, 2008

The social networking site has been hit by a legal complaint from Canada, which claims it has failed to gain users' permission to distribute their information
 

Motorola RAZR found vulnerable to JPEG attack

Richard Thurston May 29, 2008

Hackers could run malicious code on the RAZR device by sending a corrupt image by MMS, according to an advisory from TippingPoint
 

Confirmed: London is an ID fraudster's paradise

Richard Thurston May 28, 2008

A nationwide report based on thousands of cases of identity fraud has confirmed that the Capital has a serious ID problem, while some local governments seem to have given up helping residents
 

EU Commission says payment fraud moving to the internet

April 30, 2008

In spite of efforts to halt electronic fraud, the internet has remained a dangerous place to do business, according to a report from the European Commission. It reported ten million fraudulent transactions that cost European Union merchants a cumulative 1.5 billion Euros (£1.1 billion) in losses each year.
 

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