The Register - Security
Firefox users need to update (again)
The Mozilla Foundation has released an updated version of Firefox following the discovery of multiple security vulnerabilities involving the popular browser software.…
Netscape versus Digg
Newly relaunched Netscape.com has been getting into a bit of a slanging match with Digg - the site which gets its users to rate news stories.…
Spyware poses as Firefox extension
Virus writers have created a spyware package that poses as an extension to the Firefox web browser.…
Medic database spam suspect collared
A US man has been charged with stealing the membership database of the American College of Physicians (ACP) for resale as a premium spamming list.…
Moore's the modern Weegee
One of the most interesting characters to live and thrive in New York City between the Depression and the end of World War II - a time when interesting characters seemed to make up the lion's share of dwellers in that great American city - was Weegee.…
People-chipping tech cloned by hackers
Hackers demonstrated how to clone a copy of an human-implanted RFID chip at a hacking conference this week. The demonstration goes against claims from people-chipping firm VeriChip that its technology, the subject of the experiment, can uniquely identify an individual.…
Hacker conference PI charged with witness tampering
The private investigator who was arrested by the Feds shortly before he was due to give a presentation on privacy at a hacker convention on Saturday has been charged with witness tampering and obstruction of justice.…
Stateside spam slaying stalls
US efforts to stop the nation serving as the world's top spam relaying nation are stalling.…
Iraq sat phone shambles costs UK $1.1m
A failure to shut off the service of satellite phones stolen in Iraq has left UK taxpayers almost £600,000 ($1.1m) the poorer.…
Ransomware getting harder to break
Hackers may soon be pushing out ransomware packages so complex that they're beyond the decryption capabilities of the anti-virus industry, according to a study by Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab.…
Unsolicited credit card push irks security researchers
A top UK security expert has criticised the practice of issuing unsolicited credit cards.…
Warning over Sky TV scam
Credit card fraudsters are targeting Sky TV subscribers with a new two-part scam.…
Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office
For most of the summer, Microsoft's Office product teams have had little time for development. Responding to a steady influx of flaws in the company's Office productivity suite has occupied many of Microsoft's programmers since late 2005. So far this year, the software giant has detailed at least 24 Office flaws found by outside researchers in its monthly bulletins, six times the number of Office flaws found in all of 2005. The count also surpasses the 20 flaws that Microsoft has fixed so far this year in Internet Explorer, a perennial favorite among vulnerability researchers.…
MySpace adware attack hits hard
Online banner ads running on MySpace.com and web sites infected more than one million users with adware, according to net security firm iDefense.…
Mobile Instant Messaging? Not mentioned in Microsoft study...
Microsoft has a software platform called Windows Mobile, which includes - free - an Instant Messenger client for MSN or Windows messenger. Microsoft has a research study out on IM. Mobile? Doesn't get a mention. Why so shy?…
Bogus PI coughs to ID theft charges
A US man who fraudulently accessed the details of thousands on a credit reference database pleaded guilty this week to ID theft-related charges. Brian Dill, 33, of Simi Valley, California, claimed to be a private investigator in order to access privileged information on the Merlin Information Services database.…
Trojan poses as Google Toolbar
In brief Virus writers have developed a Trojan downloader attack that poses as an offer for the latest edition of Google's Toolbar, the popular search tool. Spam messages that began circulating on Wednesday attempt to trick users into visiting a maliciously constructed website, disguised to resemble the genuine Google Toolbar site, reports UK-based net security firm SurfControl.…
MXI Outbacker MXP 40GB biometric hard drive
Review It used to be sufficient just to punch in a password to prove you have a right to read to the information your trying to access, but faster processors and smarter crackers means such methods are falling from favour, especially among those with very hush-hush information to guard. Instead, they're turning to biometrics - factors unique to an individual - to verify users' identities, and products like the Outbacker mobile hard drive are being equipped with fingerprint scanners accordingly...…
French MoD questions OpenOffice security
The French Ministry of Defense has reportedly raised a red flag on OpenOffice, saying the open source desktop suite is less secure than Microsoft's product.…
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