Thieves have stolen a computer database from a company that specialises in gathering evidence from mobile phone networks to help police track suspected terrorists.
The robbers broke into the premises of Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) in Kent on Saturday and snatched the IT equipment, which included a server. Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command, SO15, was immediately informed of the raid.
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August 14th, 2007 in
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There has been a significant rise in the amount of spam originating from Chinese domains, according to the latest statistics from security vendor Symantec. In a report issued on Monday, Symantec noted a sharp spike in spam messages containing URLs that use “.cn”, the top-level domain (TLD) for China. During the month of July, the number of spam domains rose from virtually zero to around 450.
One reason for the growing popularity of Ch… read more »
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he corporate network will never be fully protected from malicious attacks if businesses overlook the need to secure end-point devices such as printers, according to Lexmark. Minh Tran, regional product manager for Lexmark Asia-Pacific, declined to cite any known occurrences of security breaches via the use of printers, but said companies need to make sure their printing devices — which are part of their network — are properly protected to eli… read more »
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A British Web designer has been given a suspended jail sentence after hacking into a rival’s Web site. Mark Hopkins, of Bromsgrove, near Birmingham, pleaded guilty to unauthorised access to computer systems. He was sentenced on Thursday to 20 weeks in custody suspended for two years. The victim was ME Publishing, which publishes the respected Motorcycle Trader magazine.
ME Publishing found in 2005 that its Web site had been hacked and a lar… read more »
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Jonathan “c0mrade” James shocked the computing world when he hacked into Pentagon and NASA systems in 1999 at age 15, becoming the youngest person to be incarcerated (for six months) under the federal cybercrime law. Now 23, James talks about his motives and the state of online security.
Q: What were your reasons for targeting the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA back in 1999?
A: Well, I had read the book The Cuckoo’s Egg [by… read more »
August 10th, 2007 in
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LIKE SPIES in a John LeCarré novel, network security professionals inhabit an ethically shadowy world.
Gunter Ollman, Director of Security Strategy for IBM Internet Security Systems recently posted a blog entry discussing some of the ethical dilemmas faced by security services vendors in dealings with software vulnerability brokers.
After prefacing his remarks with the disclaimer that “what I’m about to say doesn’t necessarily … read more »
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A California death row inmate’s fate depends in part on the word “hacker.” Enrique Zambrano, a former Berkeley, Calif., government bureaucrat, was convicted of murdering a fellow waterfront commissioner to prevent him from testifying against Zambrano in a 1988 assault case. The killing was brutal. A hiker in the Lafayette hills found the headless body of Luis Reyna, the other Berkeley Waterfront Commission member, hacked to piec… read more »
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The web is getting bigger, but also more dangerous. In the early days, it was like the Wild West – there were dangers out there, but if companies kept their wits about them and knew the basics of self-defence, they could get by.
Not anymore. Security experts are already looking back on 2006 as the year that web threats matured and became increasingly sophisticated. It was a year in which organised cyber criminals increasingly turned their atten… read more »
August 9th, 2007 in
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First Netflix slashed its prices. Now the company’s under attack from a hacker who found a way to keep the company’s downloaded movies. The hacker claims to have cracked the digital rights-management software encoded in Netflix “Watch Now” movies, enabling those who follow his step-by-step guide to keep the movies indefinitely.
In a post on forum.rorta.net titled “How to Rip Netflix ‘Watch Now’ Movies,… read more »
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Google has received US antitrust approval to acquire web-based security provider Postini, US officials said on Wednesday. Antitrust authorities completed their review of the $625m (£306m) deal without taking any action to block it, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a notice.
Last month, Google said it planned to buy Postini to expand its package of online applications to compete with Microsoft’s Office.
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