Consumer Advocates in Facebook's Face

This week, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a 38-page complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission, demanding it cancel new features introduced in mid-April that compel users to share more information than before. Read the full article. Computerworld...

80K Records' Breached in Iowa Gaming Hack

Around 80,000 Iowa employee names, birth dates and social security numbers have been exposed after an Iowa Gaming Commission server was hacked. Read the full article. Secure Computing...

Oklahoma Tax Commission Hacked

The website of the Oklahoma Tax Commission was the apparent victim of a hack yesterday, one in which visitors to the website were prompted to accept an Adobe license agreement and download software. Read the full article. Infosecurity...

FTC pulls plug on spam, child porn ISP

A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content has been shut down by a district court judge at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The ISP’s upstream provider...

Counterpoint: The need for a cybersecurity czar is real

As everyone prepares to examine the results of the Obama Administration’s cyber-security review, one of the largest issues in play remains to what extent the White House will embrace recommendations to create a Cabinet-level position to address the matter or some role superior to today’s “cyber...

FTC: ID theft cases surge

The number of identification theft cases surged in 2008, according to a report .pdf based on the Federal Trade Commission’s annual data. In 2008, ID theft was by far the biggest complaint to the FTC, representing 26 percent of complaints. The next biggest complaint — third party and creditor debt...

Google launching members-only security forum

internetnews.com’s Kenneth Corbin has the scoop on plans by Google to launch a members-only security forum for businesses, law enforcement, government agencies and others to combat malware and fraud on the Web. In addition to Google, the Internet Security Community will draw participation from...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.newzealandhc.org.uk

Security researcher Narcoticxs, has submitted on 20/03/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.newzealandhc.org.uk, which at the time of submission ranked 6632297 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 20/03/2007. I...

Free ClickBank Search Engine SQL inj. vuln.

Free ClickBank Search Engine SQL inj. vuln. Vuln. dicovered by : r0t Date: 1 dec. 2005 Orginal advisory:http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/12/free-clickbank-search-engine-sql-inj.html Vendor:http://phpfreebies.com/free-clickbank-search-engine-script.php affected version:1.0 and prior Product...

EU Browser Choice Update-For Europe Only

The Browser Choice update is a software update for Windows that Microsoft is required to distribute in Europe as part of a legal Commitment to the European Commission. The Browser Choice update, once installed, will auto launch on PCs that have the control panel location set to an EEA nation and...