| Looking for the latest story on botnets? What about rootkits? Or maybe that IM worm you heard about? SpywareGuide News is your one-stop destination for the latest spyware, instant messaging, p2p and greynets headlines from respected sources such as eWeek, CNet, ZDnet and others. If you have a news feed, press release or product announcement you would like to see included on the SpywareGuide Greynets News page please contact us. | Eweek News | Three Charged in Comcast Cyber-Attack
Three men were charged by federal indictment Nov. 19 in connection with attacking Comcast.net and redirecting traffic to sites under their control. The group altered Comcast's DNS records and is estimated to have cost the company more than $128,000. - Three men have been charged by federal authorities for redirecting traffic for Comcast.net last year to sites under the trios control. According to the FBI, Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, of Newark, Del., Michael Paul Nebel, 27, of Kalamazoo, Mich., and 20-year-old James Robert Black Jr. o... ... Microsoft Uncovers Vulnerability in Google Chrome Plug-in for IE
Microsoft uncovers a vulnerability in a controversial Google plug-in for Internet Explorer that could be exploited to bypass cross-origin protections. Google patched the issue this week in an update. - Microsoft researchers uncovered a flaw in the Google Chrome Frame plug-in for users of Internet Explorer. According to Google, which patched the problem Nov. 18 with an update, the vulnerability could be exploited to bypass cross-origin protections. The plug-in which injects Google Chromes ren... ... Google Chrome OS Security Model Breaks the Traditional Mold
With Chrome OS, Google says it has abandoned the traditional operating system security model and put its focus on using process isolation, verified boot, encryption and system hardening to protect users. - Google previewed Chrome OS Nov. 19 and opened up about how its security strategy deviates from the traditional model for securing today's operating systems. In a presentation, Google painted a picture of a slim operating system that uses a combination of sandboxing, encryption of user data... ... Up Close and Technical look at SocialPet
SocialPet, a new product from Jetmetric, lets administrators send fake phishing e-mails to selected employees to determine which ones know enough to ignore the messages and which dont - posing a threat to company security. - Video Content.... ... 10 Lessons Google Must Learn About OS Security
News Analysis: Google is new to the operating system market, so it has to demonstrate that it understands how to build and maintain a secure Web OS. The history of Windows security has shown there are many avenues of attack against a desktop operating system. There are even more potential attack strategies for an online OS. But whether Google has learned the many hard lessons of Web security is very much in doubt at this point. - Much has been made of Google's intentions in the operating system space. The company has made it clear that it wants its products to be used on netbooks. It wants to be the first major company to deliver an online operating system that can compete with the likes of Windows 7 Starter Edition and ... ... T-Mobile Confirms U.K. Data Breach
T-Mobile confirmed that an employee at its U.K. subsidiary passed customer data to third-party brokers, potentially leading to a criminal prosecution. Despite the potential damage to customers lives, such a data breach is most likely punishable with a fine as opposed to jail time in the U.K. T-Mobile has been dealing with public-relations issues on both ends of the Atlantic, including an incident in which a massive server failure led to Sidekick smartphone users in the U.S. temporarily losing their personal data. - T-Mobile confirmed that an employee had passed along customer data to third-party brokers in the U.K., an incident that could lead to criminal prosecution. Given that the defendants likely face a potential fine but no jail time, a number of British commentators have been suggesting that penalties... ... Firefox 3.6 Beta Blocks Third-Party Add-ons from Components Directory
Mozilla updates its Firefox 3.6 beta to block add-ons from adding code to Firefox's components directory. The move is meant to reduce crashes and will keep vendors from silently installing Firefox add-ons without permission from the user, Mozilla says. - Mozilla has added an extra wall in Firefox 3.6 to block third-party add-ons from loading in the browser's application components directory. The change prevents third-party applications from adding code to Firefox's components directory which houses much of Firefox's own code and will thereby k... ... U.K. Police Arrest Two Tied to Zeus Trojan
Police in the U.K. arrested two people tied to the Zeus Trojan, a notorious piece of malware used to steal banking information and another personal data such as passwords for sites like Facebook. - Authorities in the U.K.have reportedly arrested two people in connection with using a notorious Trojan in a scheme to steal online banking information. The man and the woman, both 20, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service in Manchesterfor violating the 1990 Computer Misuse Act a... ... Cyber-war Could Threaten Security of Critical Infrastructure
In a new report released by McAfee, several noted security experts discuss the improving cyber-warfare capabilities of the world's superpowers and the risks facing critical infrastructures. - The ability of several countries to launch politically motivated cyber-attacks has increased and put critical infrastructure in the crosshairs, according to a sweeping report from McAfee. In its fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report (PDF), McAfee noted that not only have politically motiva... ... The Pirate Bay Cuts BitTorrent Tracker
The Pirate Bay shuts down its BitTorrent tracker, opting instead for a more decentralized approach. - The Pirate Bay shut down its BitTorrent tracker Nov. 17, announcing that it was adopting a more decentralized model. The site, which has been under pressure from authorities in Sweden due to its content, made a name for itself by indexing and tracking BitTorrent files. According to The Pirate B... ... | | | CNet | Fortified rice, fuel cells among Tech Award winners
Al Gore receives humanitarian honor at Tech Museum event that provides prizes to projects in the areas of environment, health, biosciences economic development, equality, and education.... Cisco launches iPhone security app
Cisco Systems' new App Store entry, featuring customized alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device, targets security professionals.... Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves
The California town of Tiburon votes to set up permanent cameras to record the license plate of every car on its roads. Is this one more step toward a surveillance state?... Unboxing the free PDC laptop (photos)
CNET has a look as one developer at the Microsoft PDC gathering in Los Angeles unboxes an Acer laptop, which were given to most attendees.... New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes
The third beta imposes a new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And a feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.... Facebook adopts new privacy policy
The social-networking site hopes that policy revision will make the policy more accessible and easier to understand.... T-Mobile UK says workers sold customer data
British consumer privacy commissioner says he will prosecute over sale of customer data by T-Mobile UK employees.... Shining the light on Robolamps (photos)
Croatian artist Robert Matysiak has created cute and quirky "Robolamps" made from plumbling supplies and colored lightbulbs.... FAQ: Recognizing phishing e-mails
Phishing attacks have spiked this year, recent reports show. Here's a primer on what phishing is and how to avoid it.... Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar
U.S., Israel, Russia, China, and France are gearing up for cyberoffensives, according to a new McAfee report.... | | | ZDNet | Cisco launches iPhone security app
Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts on new security threats and other information for safe web browsing. Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts on new security threats and other information for...... UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests
The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan. The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan. A man and a woman, both...... Inside the Google Chrome OS security model
Google will use a combination of system hardening, process isolation, verified boot, secure auto-update and encryption that thwart malicious hackers from attacking its new Google Chrome OS. by Ryan Naraine... Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame
A security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research MSVR has discovered a "high risk" Google Chrome Frame security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass cross-origin protections. by Ryan Naraine... FCC to review regulatory and legal impacts to cloud services and identity management
The FCC is embarking on a review of several innovations that have now gained critical mass, among them, cloud computing, identity management and government data transparency. by Doug Hanchard... No SOAP for this Navy
Coast Guard opts for 'lightweight' services; now tackling governance and security issues by Joe McKendrick... IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory
It's my contention that we're only now entering the true data-driven decade. And all that data needs to run somewhere. And it's not going to be in MySQL, no matter who ends up owning it. by Dana Gardner... Thousands of web sites compromised, redirect to scareware
Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software, commonly referred to as scareware. by Dancho Danchev... The Queen could better manage security of personal information than civil servants are
Information in the health care sector, voter information are being either stolen or misplaced on a regular basis. Hundreds of incidents are occurring. by Doug Hanchard... Most security products flunk quality tests
Testing company ICSA Labs reported that 78 percent of security products fail their first test due to inadequate performance of core product functionality. In a report released Tuesday, ICSA Labs noted that 78 percent of product failures during the first series of tests are due to inadequate...... | | | FaceTime Communications | FaceTime Communications Integrates Sophos's Anti-Virus Engine With New Unified Security Gateway 3.0
Industry Recognized Virus Scanning Now Part of FaceTime's Comprehensive Web 2.0 Security Appliance for Enterprise Networks... FaceTime Launches Augment, Migrate & Update (AMU) Kit for Blue Coat and Surfcontrol Users
New Unified Security Gateway adds security and control of social networks, twitter, and blogs to Blue Coat proxy environments, provides upgrade path for legacy Surfcontrol customers... "Facebook Face-off" at Work Places Businesses at Risk
Enterprises Can Now Enable Twitter, Facebook and Other Web 2.0 Platforms with FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway
New Features Deliver Content Monitoring, Control & Recording across Web 2.0; Adds User Behavior Reporting over Multiple Modalities, Reduces Data Leakage, and Meets Regulatory Compliance... FaceTime Provides Reuters Messaging Import for SEC, FSA Compliance
IMAuditor Eases Compliance Burden for Financial Services Organizations... Sunbelt Software and FaceTime Partner to Enable Secure Web 2.0, Social Networks and Unified Communications
Sunbelt's Anti-malware Technology Integrated into FaceTime's Secure Web Gateway... FaceTime Signs-up Singapore Distributor Infosec Pacific
FaceTime Survey: IT Managers OK Social Networking, as Long as it's Secure and Compliant
More than half of respondents plan to add Web 2.0 security within the year... Nayatek teams up with FaceTime to deliver comprehensive archiving, eDiscovery and Compliance Solutions for Instant Messaging and Unified Communications
FaceTime's Web and IM Security Solutions Now Available for Virtualized Environments
Unified Security Gateway supports VMWare; ideal for virtualized branch offices to lower cost and environmental footprint... | | |
