Mar
31
Camelot maintains the National Lottery website it runs is secure, following the publication of a supposed breach on an underground hacking forum.
The same Romanian group that discovered SQL injection problems on the website of Kaspersky, BitDefender, and other anti-virus vendors in recent weeks has posted screen shots of supposed flaws on the national-lottery.co.uk site.
Unu, a […]
Mar
31
In the movies the government has always got the best toys, the cutting-edge technology and the tightest security standards. Those who have worked on security projects within the government know that in real life government security standards and implementations can vary all across the range from quite serious to laughable.
Over the last few years in […]
Mar
31
Personal medical records belonging to Scotland’s rich and powerful - including Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Holyrood’s First Minister Alex Salmond - have been illegally accessed in a breach of a national database that holds details of 2.5 million people.
The files contained names, ages, addresses, and occupations of the patients, in addition to medical information […]
Mar
31
Spam kingpin booted off Facebook by judge
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A US judge has ordered convicted spammer Sanford Wallace to stay away from Facebook.
Facebook sued Wallace and two other men last week in an effort to cut down on spam and phishing schemes on the social-networking site. On Monday, Judge Jeremy Fogel of the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued a […]
Mar
31
Microsoft Corp. patched the first critical vulnerability in Windows 7 yesterday as it rolled out an update that fixes three flaws in the new operating system’s kernel.
The MS09-006 update, which researchers tagged as the most serious of the three issued Tuesday and the one to patch first, includes a critical bug in the kernel’s processing […]
Mar
31
Facebook fights back against fraud tide
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Mar
31
New ’scareware’ Trojan holds users to ransom
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Mar
31
Big websites urged to avoid Phorm
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31
Mar
31
Mozilla hangs fire on Firefox 3.5 till June
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