ID-theft suspects arrested by Detectives !

A nearly nine-month investigation by Santa Barbara County Sheriff's detectives has led to the arrest of a former UCSB student as a suspected identity thief who bilked at least five victims out of at least $158,000. Imoukhuede Ohiwerei Ehimika, 26, of Nigeria was arrested Dec. 21 at his home in th...

CIOs on mobile security: Choosing a platform

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Peter Solvik, managing director at Sigma Partners, talks to a panel of CIOs about how they’re making mobile devices more secure in the enterprise and whether their employees prefer the BlackBerry over the iPhone. The panel includes: Matt Carey,...

Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation

Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a ten-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack .pdf, the...

Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Goop Gallery 2.0.2

Armorize Technologies Security Advisory Advisory No: Armorize-ADV-2006-0004 Status: Partial Date: 2006/10/04 Bugtraq No.: N/A Summary: Armorize-ADV-2006-0004 discloses a special case of directory traversal vulnerability found in Goop Gallery, which is is a directory based photo gallery and does n...