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Sony BMG faces digital-rights siege
As virus writers explore Sony BMG's "rootkit," consumer and security complaints against the content company have gained legal backing, with at least five cases filed or ready to be filed against the music giant. 2005-11-10 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11356 Gold at the end of rainbow cracking? Large tables of password hashes can make cracking weak logon credentials a snap. Some enterprising people think there may be a business in putting the tables online. 2005-11-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11355 Suspected bot master busted Prosecutors charge a California man with infecting 400,000 computers with bot software and profiting by selling access to the systems and through fraudulent affiliate referrals. 2005-11-03 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11353 Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned Copy protection shipped with music CDs from Sony BMG installs hidden, hard-to-uninstall digital rights management (DRM) software on Windows computers, causing security professionals to charge record labels with dealing in rootkits. 2005-11-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11352 U.S. makes securing SCADA systems a priority Amongst worries that the nation's power systems and utility networks are at risk, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security spins out new initiatives to help companies lock down their control systems. 2005-10-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11351 Web defacer sentenced, facing deportation After agreeing to plead guilty to defacing an Air Force Web site, Rafael Nuñez-Aponte gets time served, but possible charges regarding leaked NASA documents could be in the wings. 2005-10-26 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11350 Snort vulnerability "wormable" but not widespread A three-month-old flaw in a preprocessor function for the open-source intrusion detection system may attract worm writers, but the number of vulnerable systems is thought to be low. 2005-10-19 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11349 Worm worries don't wait for Windows exploits Security researchers disagree over whether a recently announced flaw in Microsoft Windows will likely become food for an Internet worm. 2005-10-14 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11346 Arrests unlikely to impact bot net threat, say experts The recent arrests of three men in The Netherlands who allegedly controlled a network of more than 100,000 compromised computers will not likely curtail the criminal economy surrounding bot nets. 2005-10-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11344 Fingerprint payments taking off despite security concerns Consumers may be able to leave their wallets behind in the near future, but security and privacy experts worry that pay-by-fingerprint schemes could lead to hard-to-combat identity fraud and greater threats to civil rights. 2005-10-07 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11339 |
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