I’m not sure what the real intentions are but doesn’t it sound a bit odd that the Telegraph media group CIO will thank the guys at Hackersblog for exposing their SQL injection vulnerabilities?
Oh great! Its now my account that has been compromised .. ouch! Interestingly this is the first time any service provider has sent me any such notification. This may be in part because I live in Europe where data breach notification is still being debated therefore many providers may remain silent until exposed.
This is a mail I received from Spotify this evening
The UK Prime Minister’s medical records have been breached in a series of high profile ‘data violations’ involving UK politicians and others, the Sunday mail reports. Last week UK cabinet minister Jack Straw’s hotmail account was pwned by criminals trying to hoodwink the minister’s ‘friends’ into sending them money.
UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s hotmail account was compromised and hundreds of mails sent to his contacts in a bold attempt to get unsuspecting recipients to send money to the fraudsters, BBC reports.
This is how the scheme works
F-Secure has published the IT Security Threat summary for the second half of 2008.
Summary:
Growth in amounts of malicious software
Growth in infections
Growth in the number of botnets
Growth in criminal profits
Call for growth in punishment
Highlights:
On Botnets infections
During 2008 our Response Lab conducted a small research project focusing on approximately 60 orphaned botnets. Listening to the communication attempts [...]
Secunia, a vulnerability management firm, has given home users an opportunity to improve their security with its release of Personal Software Inspector (PSI) version 1.0. Released for Windows, PSI aims to raise the security bar by checking and updating all the software installed on the home PC with the latest security patches. Download your copy [...]
For about one hour today I have noticed that securityfocus.com is unavailable.
