Paypal - about as a secure as a chocolate teapot?

Interesting to read a story on the Industry Standard earlier this week about how the portal has spotted the fact that a number of Paypal accounts have been compromised for around 16 months and eBay, which owns Paypal, has allegedly done nothing to counter the problem.

THU 30 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Apple expert pulls out from Black Hat Las Vegas

Yesterday was day one of the Black Hat security event in Las Vegas - well, day two if you count some of the Sunday training activities - but the talk of the city wasn't what the experts were speaking about, it was what they're not speaking about.

TUE 05 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

"Systematic failures" led to HMRC' huge data loss

Two new reports reveal that inadequate data-handling procedures at HM Revenue and Custom (HMRC) resulted in UK's largest information-loss

THU 26 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

HP And Microsoft Introduce Tools To Protect Web Sites From Hackers' Attacks

Microsoft and HP are introducing three new tools that help protect Web sites against growing SQL Injections attacks that aim to hijack legitimate sites

THU 26 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

"Computer Illiterate" Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges

A Massachusetts State worker who was charged of possessing child pornography has been finally exonerated of the charges

THU 19 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

Israeli security researcher develops IE superhack

I was intrigued to read over on the IDG newswire that Israeli security research Aviv Raff claims to have developed a zero-day attack methodology against Internet Explorer.

WED 14 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Peter Gabriel's Web portal offline for three days - what happened?

Mystery surrounds the outage of Peter Gabriel's Web site which went offline last weekend.

THU 08 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Dubai banks hiring hackers (no word on if a drug test is needed)

Dubai, as Adam pointed out, is in something of a branding quandary.

SAT 23 FEB. 2008 |Featured in: News

Web hosting providers underestimate the security threat facing web applications

Hosting customers left to fend for themselves as attack levels rise

WED 30 JAN. 2008 |Featured in: News

Security firm launches hosted security service

Kaspersky believes in SAAS

TUE 22 JAN. 2008 |Featured in: News