Brian Prince

Perhaps underscoring a concern with fraud and identity theft, a new survey from Unisys found that a growing number of consumers are open to biometric authentication solutions. The company’s biannual Unisys Security Index included responses from 8,300 people from nine countries. Unisys found that despite a general decrease in overall concern about security threats, consumers […]

Apple has pushed out a massive patch to address nearly 60 vulnerabilities affecting Mac OS X. The most serious of the flaws can be exploited by a remote attacker to take over a vulnerable system. Most of the vulnerabilities impact Snow Leopard, the latest version of Apple’s operating system. The batch of fixes addresses more […]

A U.S. grand jury has indicted eight people in connection with the theft of more than $9 million from over 2,100 ATMs in at least 280 cities around the world. The indictment accuses Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and an unidentified […]

An anonymous group going by the name Control Your Info hijacked hundreds of Facebook groups Nov. 10 to put a spotlight on the social networking site’s security. Control Your Info seized control of the Facebook groups and renamed each Control Your Info. On the wall of every group was a message stating that it had […]

Microsoft released six patches Nov. 10 to cover 15 security vulnerabilities. Three of the bulletins address critical Windows security issues. Those bulletins cover a variety of issues affecting the WSDAPI (Web Services on Devices Application Programming Interface), vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel and a privately reported vulnerability in Windows 2000. “The Embedded OpenType (EOT) font […]

The first known worm for the Apple iPhone is sweeping across Australia, and it is taking advantage of default SSH passwords on jail-broken phones. The attack vector is the same as the one exploited by a Dutch teenager last week in a brief extortion attempt. This time around, the mind behind the attack isn’t doing […]

Sophos Senior Security Adviser Chester Wisniewski caused a stir Nov. 3 when he repeated claims that Microsoft had rendered the Windows 7 User Account Control feature ineffective. To back this up, Wisniewski cited a test he had run in which numerous pieces of malware ran on Windows 7 without generating any prompts from UAC. In […]

A security researcher has uncovered a serious exploit that could endanger popular Websites. The attack was uncovered by Michael Bailey, a senior security researcher at Foreground Security, and unveiled Oct. 24 at the ToorCon conference in San Diego. According to Bailey, due to the way Web browsers handle cookies, it is possible for a vulnerability […]

Malware and phishing schemes targeting online bankers have spurred a jump in Automated Clearing House (ACH) fraud that has led to $100 million in attempted losses as of October, according to the FBI. In an intelligence note released earlier this week by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the FBI said that it is seeing […]

In the year since the shutdown of notorious Web hosting firm McColo, spammers are growing strong. In fact, researchers at McAfee reported that spam accounted for 92 percent of e-mail in the second quarter of 2009. Part of this is the result of improvements by botnet operators. Like anyone who is successful what they do, […]