Category Archives: Current Events

Facebook’s lax security

Facebook’s policy on applications have a some people concerened and wondering if application writing should be more restricted. The latest attacks have involved privacy leaks, and the installation of malware. Over the last week, five seperate security issues have come … Continue reading

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Current Event: Convicted Botnet Leader Retains Job

In three sequential articles, ComputerWorld traces the sentencing of convicted botnet leader John Schiefer as well as his continued employment at the start-up Mahalo.  Schiefer is an ex-security consultant and is the first botnet leader to be charged under the … Continue reading

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Current Event: Facial Recognition in Schools

Some community colleges in the UK are starting to use facial recognition software to check students into school (article at http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=396794).  The article focuses on the positive benefits of the new system.  The key benefit is in the time savings … Continue reading

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Current Events: UK Company Illegally Sold Worker Data

According to an article at the Guardian, dozens of companies in the UK had been buying personal information about potential employees from a company called the Consulting Association in violation of British data protection laws.  The Data Protection Act made … Continue reading

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Current Event: The Elusive Tigger.A Trojan

The Tigger.A trojan was first discovered by iDefense, a security intelligence firm, in November 2008. It has proven to be very difficult to detect and remove from the beginning, which has many security researchers wondering if Tigger.A may actually be … Continue reading

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Verisign Will Support DNSSEC by 2011

Within the next two years Verisign has promised that it will support DNS Security extensions across all of the domains that are top-level. DNSSEC provides measures that allow for primarily the authentication of the origin of DNS data and also … Continue reading

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Current events: Adobe Reader Vulnerability

Hackers are targeting a zero-day vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat with malicious PDF files. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Hackers have been spreading … Continue reading

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State of Utah Fleeced for $2.5 Million

Over 2.5 Million dollars was stolen from the State of Utah’s Treasury, according to a recent article in the Salt Lake Tribute.  According to the article, an attacker obtained a vendor number for the University of Utah’s construction department, then … Continue reading

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Current Event: YoBusted.com, busted?

According to a recent article from Business Week, a photo-sharing site, YoBusted.com, has crossed the line between maintaining personal privacy and extortion. This site allows users to post incriminating pictures of friends without proof that his or her permission to … Continue reading

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Weak Password

According to yahoo!News, the statistics of 28,000 passwords that are recently stolen from a popular US website that is posted in physorg.com  “16 percent took a first name as a password … 14 percent relied on the easiest keyboard combinations … Continue reading

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