David Neal, V3.co.uk, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 12:20:00

‘Hack’ highlights users’ lax approach to privacy

The details of 100 million Facebook users – a fifth of the social networking
site’s members – have been posted online by a security analyst,…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson at Black Hat 2010 in las Vegas, V3.co.uk, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 09:52:00

DNS Security Extensions could cripple man-in-the-middle attacks

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has announced
what it claims…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson at Black Hat 2010 in las Vegas, V3.co.uk, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 03:12:00

Barnaby Jacks demonstrates ‘easy’ attacks on cash machines

Security researcher Barnaby Jacks has used the Black Hat briefings to
demonstrate an interesting …

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson at Black Hat 2010 in Las Vegas, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 22:08:00

Online business still not safe, warns Jeff Moss

The founder of the Black Hat conference has told delegates that the Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption u…

read more from this topic.....

Sharon Brennan, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 16:37:00

Search firm turns up more malware than Bing, Twitter and Yahoo combined

Over two thirds of popular search results on Google have hidden malware,
according to a report into malware dist…

read more from this topic.....

David Neal, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 13:27:00

‘Iserdo’ picked up in Slovenia after co-ordinated international sting

A computer hacker thought to be behind the Mariposa botnet has been arrested
in Slovenia.

The hacker, who goes by the…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson at Black Hat 2010 in las Vegas, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 08:02:00

The few, the proud and the geeky arrive in Las Vegas

Hackers, security researchers, IT administrators and computer crime experts
have convened in Las Vegas…

read more from this topic.....

V3.co.uk, Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 22:06:00

A look at the big stories from the US

Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols discuss the latest news from the
V3.co.uk offices in San Francisco. This week’s topics include a profile
on the personalities of iPad…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 19:50:00

Patient, brilliant and better funded, warns networking firm

Malicious hackers are winning the enterprise security fight, according to
Cisco’s chief security officer.

John…

read more from this topic.....

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:00:00

Phone unlocking procedure considered fair use

The US Library of Congress has approved the use of ‘jail-breaking’ procedures
on mobile phones.

The practice of removing re…

read more from this topic.....

Miya Knights, V3.co.uk, Monday 26 July 2010 at 12:46:00

SmartScreen web spam filter reaches milestone

Microsoft has revealed its web browser spam filter technology has stopped its
one-billionth piece of malware from being downloaded.

Internet E…

read more from this topic.....

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 23 July 2010 at 03:50:00

Services being used to evade filters

Spammers are increasingly making use of URL-shortening services to get their
messages through to users, reports MessageLabs.

The secu…

read more from this topic.....

Miya Knights, V3.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010 at 18:15:00

AVG reveals huge number of machines vulnerable to ‘Eleonore’ toolkit

AVG Research is claiming that one in 10 of all PCs is infected by malware
controlled by cybercriminals using the �…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010 at 03:12:00

Infection sparks concerns about firmware security

Siemens has uncovered a virus that explicitly targets the industrial command
and control systems in which the company sp…

read more from this topic.....

David Neal, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 21 July 2010 at 10:46:00

Prime minister brings up hacker case during talks with President Obama

Prime minister David Cameron, fresh from talks with President Obama, has told
BBC Radio 5 that Gary McKinnon could se…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 19 July 2010 at 23:23:00

Accused may have spied on over 150 girls

A German man has been arrested on charges of using malware to spy on young
women using their webcams.

The man is alleged to have u…

read more from this topic.....

The Metasploit Project is proud to announce the release of the Metasploit Framework version 3.4.1. This release sees the first official non-Windows Meterpreter payload, in PHP as discussed last month here. Rest assured that more is in store for Meterpr…

read more from this topic.....

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 16 July 2010 at 02:05:00

Early test suggest restrictions on modding handsets

Motorola’s Droid X handset has launched in the US, and the early response
could be discouraging for users hoping to hac…

read more from this topic.....

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 15 July 2010 at 02:46:00

Malware botnet exploits credit card security programmes

The infamous Zeus malware botnet has begun harvesting user bank data by
posing as a credit card verification sche…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 14 July 2010 at 18:10:00

Latest report makes for grim reading on patching and spam

A report into the state of internet security has found patching is still
woefully poor among computer users.

O…

read more from this topic.....

Lawrence Latif, V3.co.uk, Friday 9 July 2010 at 15:35:00

Encryption processes may have been compromised

Skype’s security credentials have been called into question by a developer
who claims to have released a software library that emulates an en…

read more from this topic.....

Sharon Brennan, V3.co.uk, Friday 9 July 2010 at 12:31:00

Report suggests Chinese government will approve search firm’s application

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt believes that the company’s Chinese
licence will be renewed, despite ongoing t…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 8 July 2010 at 20:00:00

Asks companies to accept “Big Brother” monitoring equipment

The National Security Agency (NSA) is to start monitoring the networks of
public companies for security hol…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 8 July 2010 at 16:27:00

Records of four million users up for grabs

Three hackers claim to have harvested the accounts of over four million
registered users of the Pirate Bay web site, including c…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 8 July 2010 at 03:51:00

Andrew Auernheimer claims innocence and breach of public law

One of the team
arrested
after exposing a
security
flaw in AT&T’s iPad data systems has broken a gagging order…

read more from this topic.....

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 7 July 2010 at 18:53:00

100,000 handsets thought to be infected, say researchers

Mobile security firm NetQin claims to have found malware spreading via
Symbian Series 60 handsets which is being …

read more from this topic.....

Lawrence Latif, V3.co.uk, Monday 5 July 2010 at 14:55:00

Reports suggest Vietnamese developer is artificially elevating the popularity
of his apps

Apple’s App Store appears to have fallen victim to a concerted effort by a
developer to illegitima…

read more from this topic.....

David Neal, V3.co.uk, Monday 5 July 2010 at 11:54:00

No nasty payload, but experts warn of gaping hole

YouTube users have reacted angrily to a cross-site scripting exploit that hid
comments on videos this weekend.

The problems appeared to begin…

read more from this topic.....

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 3 July 2010 at 13:05:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the top security stories

This week has been dominated by yet more cyber criminal activity targeting
the banking and defence industries, as well as efforts by the gover…

read more from this topic.....

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 3 July 2010 at 01:14:00

Researchers find social engineering flaw still open to attack

Adobe is on the defensive following the discovery of a security loophole
previously believed to have been pa…

read more from this topic.....