Design Flaws, Besides Vulnerabilities, Hurt Banking Sites
(PC World)
PC World - Banking Web sites suffer from design flaws that can undermine their security exclusive of software vulnerabilities, according...
McAfee: SMBs Underestimate Cybercrime Risks
(PC World)
PC World - A survey by McAfee found that SMBs in North America wrongly conclude their revenue is too low to draw the attention of...
Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years
(PC World)
PC World - A court ordered "spam king" Robert Soloway to serve 47 months in prison for spamming.
"Spam king" walks away from prison
(AP)
AP - An inmate known as the "spam king" for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mails has walked away from a federal prison camp in Colorado.
Colorado 'Spam King' Walks Away From Prison Camp
(PC World)
PC World - Penny-stock spammer Eddy Davidson has escaped from federal prison.
New Spyware (Wrongly) Claims It's Won PCMag Award
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - It's worth reminding: there is a large category of malicious programs that present themselves as antispyware or antivirus programs. We recently came across one which claims to have won a number of awards, including the PC Magazine Editors' Choice.
Hackers Post Software to Jailbreak Apple's iPhone 3G
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NewsFactor - According to an online community, the latest iPhone operating system 2.0 has been hacked less than a week after its release. The iPhone Dev Team, a portal for iPhone hacks, cracks and comments, announced in a blog entry that it had broken the code.
iPhone Dev Team Releases Jailbreak Software
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The hacker group's PwnageTool 2.0 software allows iPhone users to load non-Apple-approved applications on their handsets.
Protecting against Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID data attacks
(CNET)
CNET - NEW YORK--Using a laptop, cell phone headset, building access badge, credit cards, or even a passport can make you a walking target for data thieves and other criminals, a security expert warned at the Last HOPE hacker conference here late Friday.
New Worm Transcodes MP3s to Try to Infect PCs
(PC World)
PC World - A new variety of malicious software could pose a danger to those who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.
Losses Likely to Rise From Latest Romanian Crime Ring
(PC World)
PC World - Losses from a Romanian cybercrime ring that was broken up on Tuesday could reach into the millions of euros.
Obama warns against 'fighting the last war'
(AP)
AP - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.
Cyber-capos: How cybercriminals mirror the mafia and businesses
(CNET)
CNET - Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a "shadow economy" that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan.
The iPhone 3G Gets Unlocked
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A group in Brazil has unlocked the phone to run on other carriers' networks, and a hacker team has enabled independent apps to run on Apple's latest handset.
Romainian Authorities Arrest Cybercrime Suspects
(PC World)
PC World - More than 20 cybercrime suspects are arrested in Romania.
Congress asks Embarq about selling customer info
(AP)
AP - Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy.
Spammer Gets 30 Months for Inundating AOL
(PC World)
PC World - A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month...
NY spammer hit with 30-month prison sentence
(CNET)
CNET - A federal court on Tuesday sentenced a New York man to a 30-month prison term for sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, according to a Reuters report.
NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30
months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more
than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that
foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
Microsoft Says Yahoo-Google Deal Threatens Internet Privacy
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company's complaints may have as much to do with privacy and competition as they do with its own strategic interests in Yahoo's search business.