A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, researchers from security firm Trusteer said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Trusteer security researchers found an advertisement on a black market forum for a custom RAT designed to infect hotel front desk computers and steal customer credit card and billing information.
The EU could soon introduce rules to monitor the deployment of internet censorship technology in autocratic regimes including China and Saudi Arabia.
The European Parliament is proposing a resolution to strengthen the accountability of countries that export gear used to block websites and eavesdrop on mobile communications.
On the 26th May* the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)) will impose an EU directive designed to protect Internet users’ privacy. As I said last year, European websites will have to police their own cookies but what about third-party cookies from advertisers? This will be more problematic to regulate under the European privacy law. The EU Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) also wants an “icon” or “logo” on adverts that when clicked shows the data that is being transmitted.
The free proxy servers of The TOR Project protect the identities of more than just hacktivists, hackers, dissidents in authoritarian countries and office drones surfing porn. Ordinary criminals apparently use it as well.
Eight people have been arrested on three continents for what federal agents called one of the most sophisticated markets for illegal drugs on the Internet.
A security researcher has developed an application that demonstrates how sensitive data can be stolen from Android phones without user permission.
The application can access contents of a phone's SD card, tap into app data and upload sensitive data without requiring permissions. Permissions were a security system on Android phones that require applications to ask users for access rights to phone contents like contacts, data and the ability to access communications.
An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially believed.
Officials originally estimated that about 24,000 people had their records stolen after a computer tracked to Eastern Europe infiltrated a server beginning March 30, then changed that number to 182,000 victims.
Earlier today, security researcher Gareth Wright revealed the discovery of a security hole in the Facebook app running on Android and iOS mobile devices. The simple 'hack' allows users to copy plain text configuration files off the device and thus effectively 'stealing' credentials / gaining unauthorized access to accounts on that iOS device.
Twitter took down its popular web version of TweetDeck after an Australian Twitter user found a way to gain access to hundres of Twitter and Facebook accounts through the Mac client app for TweetDeck.
The company behind Girls Around Me, a controversial geo-location iPhone app, has voluntarily removed the application from the App Store but states that it plans to reintroduce the app at a future date.
The company also says, as it has before, that it is "technically impossible to stalk, track or trace a particular person" using Girls Around Me. The app was removed from iTunes after heavy criticism about the app's intent and Foursquare's decision to cut off access to the check-in service's data, rendering the app useless.
Path, the mobile social network, announced on Monday that it had added a privacy feature to its mobile application. The update comes two months after it was discovered that some app makers, including Path, were copying people’s address book data without permission.
