Flaw in HSBC Online Banking Exposes 3 Million CustomersAugust 10th, 2006 Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC's online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries.
Researchers claim that your typing style can be used for authentication: Security PipelineFebruary 19th, 2005 If this works out then no more forgotten passwords for me!
Keyloggers will still work. Not only that you can now trick anyone to type on your computer anything and analyse the pattern to figure out his password.
Terror e-mails to IT firms may be ploy to mislead: policeJanuary 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - A flurry of e-mails threatening to blow up glitzy buildings of IT bellwethers like Infosys and Wipro in this tech hub of India may be a ploy to mislead people and create a scare, a top police official here said Monday. 'The city anti-terrorist cell (ATC) is investigating the e-mail threats received by some top IT firms located across the city's southeast IT corridor from Whitefield to Electronic City,' Bangalore joint commissioner of police Gopal Hosur told IANS here.
Wow! Motion Sensing Doors and Windows to Work as Security Guards, Catch IntrudersMarch 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - German scientists have come up with a technology that can enable windows and doors to sensitise any suspicious movements, and sound an alarm. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin say that the heart of their technology is a motion sensor and a special coating.
EU shows emails to support case that Intel pressured computer makers into shunning AMD chipsSeptember 21st, 2009 EU cites emails to support Intel anti-trust caseBRUSSELS — The European Union is publishing computer makers' e-mail excerpts to support a ruling that Intel Corp. pressured companies into choosing their chips over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Cyber-spies used social sites to trick Dalai Lama's office: US expertMarch 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Chinese cyber-espionage network used sophisticated social and computer engineering techniques to trick the Dalai Lama's office into downloading malicious software, according to a cyber security expert. Researchers, based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada, Sunday reported that the spy ring had infiltrated computers and stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Indian embassy in Washington.
Increased use of social networking sites threatens privacyMarch 30th, 2009 LONDON - With more and more people drawing towards social networking sites, it has become very hard to maintain privacy, according to a new study. The researchers analysed links between users of social sites, and identified many people in supposedly anonymous data sets.
97pc of emails are spam: ReportApril 9th, 2009 LONDON - More than 97 percent of all emails sent in the world are unwanted spam, says a Microsoft security report. According to the report, e-mails are dominated by spam adverts for drugs, and general product pitches.
Now distributed security approach to curb cyber crimeJune 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new approach to online security, based on distributed sanctions, could help prevent cybercrime, fraud and identity theft, according to a report. Susan Brenner, of the University of Dayton School of Law, and Leo Clarke, of the Thomas M.
Internet highly vulnerable to phishing attacksDecember 30th, 2008 LONDON - You are browsing a particular website thinking that it is perfectly secure, but it may not be the case as experts have uncovered chinks in Internet security. For instance, a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure allows attackers to forge certificates completely trusted by all commonly used web browsers.
How to: 2 Ways to Prevent Spam Mails from OrkutJanuary 20th, 2009 I am sure that you usually get at least one spam mail a day from Orkut. Even GMail which perhaps has the best filtering capability of spam mails, stands helplessly in front of such backdoor attacks.
Websense shares fall 6 percent after-hours following weak 2nd-quarter revenue outlookJuly 7th, 2009 Websense posts 2Q outlook, shares fall after-hoursNEW YORK — Internet filtering and security software maker Websense Inc. said Tuesday it expects adjusted earnings of 30 cents to 32 cents per share for the second quarter.
China "extremely vulnerable" to cyber terrorismJune 17th, 2009 BEIJING - China's lack of preparation against cyber terrorism has left the country "extremely vulnerable," to it, Chinese defence analysts have warned. "In the age of information, a nation's security would be at serious risk if its information systems were attacked, or the flow of information were interrupted," said Yu Xiaofeng, a specialist in non-traditional security at Zhejiang University.
Scientists develop new language to improve home computer securitySeptember 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes. Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.
Computer security industry grows 18.6 percentJune 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - While most business sectors were affected by the slowdown last year, the anti-virus and computer security industry grew 18.6 percent totalling $13.5 billion in revenues, IT market researcher and consultancy Gartner said Monday. According to a report by Gartner, there is an increasing demand for appliance-based products, particularly within certain segments such as e-mail security and secure web gateway markets.
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