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Hungarian hotel hacker sentenced to 30 months in prison
A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison last week.
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VeriSign admits it was hacked in 2010 but managers not told
Internet giant VeriSign suffered a series of data breaches in 2010 and even now senior executives are not sure exactly what was compromised, the company has admitted in a filing made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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MetaFlows launches SaaS intrusion detection agent
Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monitor network traffic flow, detect possible intrusions and analyse event logs.
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Juniper and Palo Alto in next-gen firewall legal tussle
Juniper Networks says that Palo Alto Networks is infringing on its next-generation firewall technology, which was invented by Palo Alto's founders but for which Juniper holds the patents.
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Stonesoft researchers evade enterprise IPS network protection
Finnish security firm Stonesoft claims to have developed 163 new attack methods that can evade network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) over multiple communication protocols including IPv4, IPv6, TCP and HTTP.
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Homenet group to set standards for IPv6 in home networking
The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections into homes.
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Botnets can be spotted through DNS analysis, research finds
Research out of the Georgia Institute of Technology can detect when bot masters reserve domains to set up command-and-control networks.
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Dropbox admits it suffered serious password failure
Cloud file synchronisation company Dropbox has admitted that it suffered a serious security lapse that allowed an unknown number of users to log into any account using any password.
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LulzSec hackers claim breach of FBI affiliate
Hacking group Lulz Security claimed it had hacked and defaced the website of the Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, an organisation affiliated to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and leaked its user base.
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Anonymous accused of playing role in PSN hack by Sony exec
The worldwide hacker group Anonymous may have played a role, even unwittingly, in the theft of personal data from 77 million Sony PlayStation Network customers, according to a letter from Sony's chairman to a Congressional committee.
