David Beckham's website defaced with image of dog
Former Manchester United and Real Madrid football player David Beckham has become the latest celebrity to find himself on the receiving end of a website defacement.
John E Dunn | 12 Jul | Read more
Global Security — News
Researchers uncover more Android malware on Google's Market
Security researchers have found more malicious Android apps on Google's official download site and being spread through Chinese app stores.
Gregg Keizer | 12 Jul | Read more
Cloud services as part of a BC/DR plan after a terror attack
I was talking to a friend about data security over lunch today and we discussed 'dirty bombs' and a what-if scenario for small-and-medium sized businesses.
Gregory Machler | 12 Jul | Read more
Visa blocks WikiLeaks donations via DataCell once again
For a few hours on Thursday, credit card donations once again flowed to WikiLeaks through a payment gateway at Icelandic hosting company DataCell. Then Visa shut it down again.
Peter Sayer | 08 Jul | Read more
Anonymous eyes political role, but won't go legit
Hacker group Anonymous plans to promote an affiliated political party to attract people who share its civil liberties goals, but do not agree with its methods.
John Ribeiro | 08 Jul | Read more
Cyber threats the focus for Quintet of Attorneys-General
Attorneys-General from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia will meet in Sydney next week to discuss joint actions to address the growth of online threats.
Stilgherrian | 08 Jul | Read more
UCLA Medical Center agrees to settle HIPAA violation charges for $865K
After years of being accused of doing little to enforce Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's security and privacy rules, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services appears to be finally getting serious about cracking down on offenders.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Jul | Read more
UK's News of the World closes after phone hacking scandal
News Corp. will close its weekly U.K. newspaper News of the World amid allegations that the tabloid hacked into the mobile voicemail accounts of celebrities, the British royal family, and crime victims.
Grant Gross | 08 Jul | Read more
Washington Post reports data breach on job ads section
The Washington Post has alerted job seekers who use its employment pages of a data breach that compromised up to 1.27 million accounts.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Jul | Read more
Morgan Stanley warns 34,000 customers of data breach
Morgan Stanley has warned 34,000 investment clients that their personal data may have been stolen while in transit to a government tax office.
Anh Nguyen | 07 Jul | Read more
DHS tests show security's people problem
It was widely reported last week that as part of a study, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) randomly dropped USB and optical drives in government and private contractor parking lots -- and more than half of those who picked one up readily plugged it into their work computer.
Lucas Mearian | 07 Jul | Read more
Second DOE lab is likely victim of spear-phishing attack
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is working on restoring Internet connectivity and email services after being hit by a "sophisticated cyberattack" five days ago.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 07 Jul | Read more
Italian police raid Italian branch of Anonymous
Italian police have reported 15 suspected members of the Italian branch of the Anonymous hacker group to the judiciary for investigation on charges of illegally accessing IT systems, damaging IT systems and interrupting a public service, Italian media reported Wednesday.
Philip Willan | 07 Jul | Read more
Hacking team claims NATO server compromised
A group of hackers going by the name of the "Inj3ct0r Team" are claiming they've compromised a server belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Jul | Read more
DDoS attack in March likely North Korean work, says McAfee
The cyber attacks that paralyzed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or parties allied with the country, computer security company McAfee said in a report.
Martyn Williams | 06 Jul | Read more
Rustock take-down proves botnets can be crippled, says Microsoft
Microsoft Tuesday said the coordinated take-down of the Rustock botnet and follow-up efforts had purged the malware from over half of the PCs once controlled by Russian hackers.
Gregg Keizer | 06 Jul | Read more
Privacy groups protest proposed E-Verify bill
A proposal to force employers to use the federal <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135526/DHS_Congress_look_to_strengthen_E_Verify_system">E-Verify system</a> to vet new employees has stoked widespread privacy concerns.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Jul | Read more
Private industry group leaps into the cybercrime fight
A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign on Tuesday to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs the U.K. economy tens of billions of pounds annually.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Jul | Read more
Fox News Twitter Account Hacked, Reports President's Death
An official Fox News Twitter account falsely reported that President Barack Obama had been assassinated after hackers gained access to the account early Monday. The phony messages were posted to the Fox News Politics Twitter account sometime before 2:30 a.m. Eastern Monday and were still live more than five hours later. The account has more than 33,000 followers. A group calling itself the Script Kiddies claimed responsibility for the hack, according to <a href="http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/07/04/hackers-claim-fox-news-twitter-account-report-fake-obama-shooting/">The Next Web</a>.
Mobile payments, PCI DSS compliance: Some clarity
Mobile payments technology is a loud sonic boom thundering through the payments industry. But are all -- or any -- of these payment schemes compliant with the <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/519563/the-great-pci-security-debate-of-2010-transcribed">Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS?)</a>
George V. Hulme | 05 Jul | Read more