Technology Mashup

Computerworld is reporting that over 100 domains have been registered in the past 48 hours relating to hurricane Gustav.

Although not all will have nefarious purposes, security experts are warning people to be careful of phishing scams and bogus charity scams that might emerge as relief operations go into full swing.

By Steve Nimmons

Interesting article from Mark Watts on the Risk Management blog at Computer Weekly today with the snippet below requiring Britain to respond to the EU commissioner in respect of whether Phorm complies with data protection legislation.

More on the DNS exploit courtesy of Microsoft Security Advisory...

Microsoft Security Advisory (956187): Increased Threat for DNS Spoofing Vulnerability - 7/25/2008 -

More DNS woes circulating...

Attacks begin on net address flaw - Net firms urged to patch address flaw as attacks that exploit it circulate online.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Seems like a surprising judgement to say the least...

Oyster card hack to be published - A Dutch judge rules that details of how to copy Oyster cards can be published.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Crying wolf on Facebook security - Facebook is today's version of the conversation by the water cooler.Why are we so hung-up on the security issues of social networking sites? asks Cliff Saran

[Cliff Saran's Blog]

Inside NSA Red Team Secret Ops With Government's Top Hackers - The NSA has made headlines in the past few years for wiretapping and data-mining of questionable legality, but one of its primary functions is protecting the military's computer networks, and that's where the red team comes in.

Jail sentence for botnet creator - A malicious hacker who hijacked hundreds of PCs will serve almost four years in jail for his crimes.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Additional commentary on the security breach at Cotton Traders from David Lacey...

Yet another data breach - This time it's the credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing retailer Cotton Traders that have been stolen according to the BBC News. The firm claim to have upgraded their security.

[David Lacey's Security Blog]

Card details stolen in web hack - Card details of up to 38,000 customers are stolen after the Cotton Trader website is hacked, the BBC learns.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Facebook 'violates privacy laws' - Social networking site Facebook is accused of 22 counts of privacy breaches by a Canadian group.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Helping hacked sites -

A very interesting and useful post on Matt Cutts blog.

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Interesting thoughts on 'poacher / gamekeeper' philosophy when it comes to designing security systems. In my view, not enough skills are being developed in the UK in terms of ethical hacking.