Fahmida Y. Rashid

Several ISPs signed a voluntary agreement with the music and movie businesses to crack down on online copyright infringement. Most major ISPs in the United States, including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, have signed on to help shut down copyright violators, but they won’t do the filtering or monitoring themselves, according to […]

The techniques used by the staffers at News of the World to listen in on thousands of voicemail messages were fairly low-tech, but voicemail fraud is a growing problem, experts said. Rival-publication The Guardian revealed July 5 how employees of the United Kingdom-based tabloid News of the World illegally accessed voicemail messages of celebrities, royal […]

As Chromebooks hit the market, users may be needlessly vulnerable to Flash-based exploits, according to a Kaspersky Lab researcher. A fully updated Samsung Chromebook was running an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player, Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antivirus researcher on Kaspersky Lab, posted on the Securelist blog July 6. After some digging around, he discovered […]

Security experts have long warned that all organizations are vulnerable to cyber-attack and that these days there is no such thing as being “not important enough” to attack. The latest proof comes in the form of Washington Post’s admission that its job board had been hacked. Cyber-attackers hit the Washington Post’s job board twice, once […]

North Korea or its sympathizers were behind the cyber-attacks that paralyzed a handful of South Korean Websites, including a United States military site earlier this year, according to McAfee. The malware behind the distributed denial of service attacks that crippled South Korean government sites were highly sophisticated and had numerous capabilities designed to make it […]

Microsoft plans to fix 22 bugs across four vulnerabilities in July’s Patch Update release next week. One bulletin has a maximum severity rating of “critical” and the remaining three are rated “important,” Microsoft said July 7 in its Patch Tuesday advance notification. The critical bulletin addresses vulnerabilities that can result in remote code execution attacks […]

Apple is working on a fix for the security vulnerability that could potentially allow attackers to remotely takeover iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. The security flaw allows attackers to infect users’ iOS devices with malicious software that would give them administrator privileges just by displaying infected PDF files, the German Federal Office for Information Security […]

Brokerage firm Morgan Stanley Smith Barney reported that personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients has been lost and potentially stolen. Unlike recent data breaches, the data appear to have been lost in the mail. The company mailed two CDs containing information for 34,000 clients to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, […]

The Rustock botnet has been nearly halved in size and effectively crippled, demonstrating how tech companies can coordinate with law enforcement to take down malware distributing botnets, Microsoft said. Since Microsoft seized several command and control servers in the United States in March, the infection rate for Rustock malware has declined dramatically, Richard Boscovich, a […]

Essential computer services remain offline nearly a week after a cyber-attackers hit another Department of Energy laboratory, this time in the state of Washington. The Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington shut down Internet access and email services following a sophisticated cyber-attack, according to a July 5 post on the facility’s Twitter account. […]