Vending machine company breach results in massive credit card data theft
Credit and debit card data of some 40,000 people who visited the Wilderness Resorts water parks in Wisconsin and Tennessee from December 12, 2008 to May 25, 2011 has been …
Win a free ticket to the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2011 is scheduled to be held in London on September 19 and 20, and Help Net Security is offering a free ticket to the event …
Improved SpyEye variant actively attacking Android devices
The first SpyEye variant, called SPITMO, has been spotted attacking Android devices in the wild. According to Amit Klein, Trusteer’s chief technology officer, the threat …
Enterprise-level management and control of SSL certificates
Managing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates is critically important for enterprises and is becoming a larger challenge, especially due to the skyrocketing number of …
Facebook tool automates syphoning of user data
A group of security researchers has developed a proof-of-concept Java-based tool that could allow malicious individuals to automatize the syphoning of information from a …
Bogus “last words” Facebook app offer leads to malware
Humans have many impulses and fears, and cyber crooks can be counted on exploiting each and every one of them for achieving their purposes. The latest example of this has been …
Secure corporate email archiving solution
According to The Radicati Group, the average corporate employee will send and receive about 112 email messages per day in 2011 and this volume will continue to grow. Many of …
HP expands its Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio
HP expanded its Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio to help enterprises establish and execute a comprehensive security strategy to deal with threats resulting from the …
Large EU IT systems to be managed by single agency
The first step towards a pan-European agency that will manage the large IT systems common to all member states has been taken, reports Computerworld. The EU’s General …
NBC News Twitter account hijacked by using a Trojan?
On the very eve of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the NBC News Twitter account begun posting messages saying that two civilian airplanes have been hijacked …
Secure hard drive replication for forensic analysis
Ciphertex Data Security announced its new Ranger-COP family (Ciphertex Optimized Protection), a compact pair of products that combine AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption …
GlobalSign audit reveals only isolated web server breach
GlobalSign – the CA that has been named by the Comodohacker as also compromised and has stopped issuing certificates until it finished investigating these claims – …