http://www.arnnet.com.au ARN Security en-us Copyright 2012, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:45:04 +1100 60 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1465571904&rid=-217 A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:27:27 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1210220752&rid=-217 The Department of Justice today said a man who sent malicious code to Marriott International Corporation, threatening to reveal confidential information taken from the company's computers if Marriott did not offer him a job, has been sent to prison for his criminal endeavor. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:27:24 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=80537615&rid=-217 Digital rights groups in Europe have called for a ban on blanket data retention after a leaked internal memo from the European Commission admitted that there are significant problems with the current E.U. Data Retention Directive. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:06:53 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=345046846&rid=-217 The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:19:31 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=718060531&rid=-217 A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:24:26 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=887227389&rid=-217 Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:52:28 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=351938996&rid=-217 Security vendor, CoSoSys, is looking to extend its reseller channel to Asia-Pacific Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:04:00 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=895879620&rid=-217 I've always wanted to be responsible for physical security. I never understood why the security of computers, networks and data is managed by a different department than the security of doors, windows and cameras. The same principles apply in both worlds. And let's face it: Physical security is actually run on computers. So I think it's perfectly natural for information security to own it. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:22:00 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1906234710&rid=-217 VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:56:23 +1100 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=329235689&rid=-217 New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, researchers from security vendor Trusteer warned. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:20:01 +1100