Security researcher Anil Kurmus recently demonstrated an attack against Twitter that leveraged a newly released vulnerability in the common data security protocol Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Kurmus showed that an attacker could exploit the SSL vulnerability to steal the Twitter credentials of a user that was authenticated through HTTPS. The SSL renegotiation bug, as it is termed, was unveiled earlier this month by security researchers at mobile phone authentication vendor PhoneFactor. — AM
On the heels of what is believed to be the first-ever iPhone worm, hackers now have devised a way to steal data off jailbroken versions of the popular Apple device.
A group of overseas hackers have been indicted in connection with a coordinated cyberheist that resulted in $9 million of ATM withdrawals in a 12-hour period.
The FBI is dealing with new cases every week of sophisticated banking trojans being installed on PCs to swindle companies out of large amounts of money, the agency said this week.
Joe Simitian, a Democratic state senator from California, is still scratching his head, some two weeks after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed SB-20, an update to the landmark 2003 Golden State breach notification bill, known as SB-1386.