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A cyber-crook has uploaded the details of more than five million cards, many of them stolen during the data breach at US retailer Target, to a Russian carding site, says security firm Group-IB. In a report into the Russian high-tech crime market covering the second half of 2013 and first half of this year, Group-IB […]

HID Global, the US-based identity security product company, has completed its second mobile access control pilot with RFI Communications & Security Systems at Netflix, the internet subscription service for TV series and films. For the latest project, pilot participants used the HID Mobile Access solution on a variety of Samsung and Apple smartphones with Bluetooth Smart

The makers of the open source content management system have fixed troublesome flaw Drupal has patched an SQL injection flaw that could potentially let hackers load malicious code onto sites running version 7 of the platform. The Drupal Association wrote in its advisory: “A vulnerability in this API allows an attacker to send specially crafted

By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News   Smart meters widely used in Spain can be hacked to under-report energy use, security researchers have found. Poorly protected credentials inside the devices could let attackers take control over the gadgets, warn the researchers. The utility that deployed the meters is now improving the devices’ security to

By Jeremy Kirk The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning to companies and organizations on Wednesday of cyberattacks by people linked with the Chinese government. The advisory, issued privately, contains “information they can use to help determine whether their systems have been compromised by these actors and provides steps they can take to

On a day when system administrators were already taxed addressing several security updates released by Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe, there is now word of a new security hole discovered in a basic protocol used for encrypting web traffic. Its name is POODLE, which stands for Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption, and it was discovered

JAMES COOK   Last night an anonymous hacker claimed to be in possession of 7 million passwords to Dropbox accounts. While that claim was probably false, it demonstrates the increasingly common way that hackers are using to gain access to your passwords. The hacker posted around 400 usernames and passwords on anonymous note site Pastebin

from the scary-news dept One of the most frequent refrains from the big broadband players and their friends who are fighting against net neutrality rules is that there’s no evidence that ISPs have been abusing a lack of net neutrality rules in the past, so why would they start now? That does ignore multiple instances

Last week, Apple announced that it is closing a serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. It used to be that the phone’s encryption only protected a small amount of the data, and Apple had the ability to bypass security on the rest of it. From now on, all the phone’s data is protected. It can

By Rodrigo Orihuela For the past six years, Gabriella Coleman has been hanging out in the IRC chat rooms used by Anonymous — but she’s no hacker. The anthropologist and academic spent time there to learn the language and social codes of the digital troublemakers. She eventually became so trusted by the group’s members that