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Google boss says something will happen in China 'soon'
Seven weeks and counting
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some sort of development "soon."…
Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'
Account still restricted
"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…
UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years
Online banking losses up though
A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…
Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…
Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…
Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists
Feds cuff JihadJane
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.…
Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads
Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…
It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…
New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild
IE 6 and 7 users targeted
Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…
FA launches security probe after England team bugged
Lancaster Gate-gate
Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…
Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm
WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim
Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…
Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic
Android phone comes riddled with bots
Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…
Thailand approves extradition of credit card hack suspect
Losses top $153m
A criminal court in Thailand has approved the extradition to the US of a Malaysian man suspected of participating in credit card thefts of more than $152m, according to a local news report.…
'Crazy' man cuffed for plotting cyber extortion scheme
Threatened to drag firm 'through the muddiest of waters'
A California man was charged with extortion after he allegedly threatened to send millions of emails and social networking messages that maligned a large life insurance company unless he was paid almost $200,000.…
Ubisoft undone by anti-DRM DDoS storm
Protests over anti-piracy controls hobble games firm
Ubisoft has confirmed its rights management servers were hit by a fierce DDoS attack over the weekend that left some customers unable to play its games for much of Sunday.…
Paypal freezes Cryptome
And sits on its cash
eBay Inc has suspended Cryptome's PayPal account, confiscating donations made to the site in the past two weeks. New York architect John Young has refunded around $5,300 to donors.…
Botnet takedowns 'don't hurt crooks enough'
Punching fog
The takedowns of the Mariposa and Waladec botnets last week were victories for the good guys, but security experts warn that although cybercrooks suffered a bloody nose they collectively retain the upper hand in their ongoing conflict with law enforcement and its security industry allies.…
Energizer Duo software suffers backdoor Trojan bother
Shh, I'm hunting wabbits
A Trojan backdoor found its way into Energizer Duo USB battery charger software downloads.…
Patchy Windows patching leaves users insecure
Third-party patch treadmill running too fast, warns security firm
Windows users need to patch their systems an average of every five days to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities, according to a study this week.…
Opera says bug probably can't commandeer machines
Get your DEP here just in case
A security vulnerability identified in Opera can be exploited to crash users' browsers, but probably can't lead to the remote execution of malware, a company spokesman said.…