Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair

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• Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair
• Romanian hacker attacks Royal Navy website
• Defence Minister to highlight cyber attack threat to UK
• Secure a PC, Website From Firesheep Session Hijacking
• ICO: Business lags public sector in data protection
• 2010 Women of Influence award winners named
• More federal health database details coming following privacy alarm
• Student who hacked Bill O'Reilly gets 30 months
• iPhone's Safari dials calls without warning, says researcher
• Antitrust case against Microsoft over AV would be 'longshot,' says expert

Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST A New York couple have been charged with defrauding a wealthy musician to the tune of $20 million (£12.3 million) after he innocently visited their computer servicing company to have a virus removed from his laptop.

Romanian hacker attacks Royal Navy website Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST The Royal Navy's website has been "temporarily suspended" after a hacker gained access to site and subsequently posted site administrators user names and passwords online.

Defence Minister to highlight cyber attack threat to UK Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST Defence Minister Nick Harvey will be stressing the significance of the cyber attack threat to the UK in a speech at Chatham House today.

Secure a PC, Website From Firesheep Session Hijacking Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST A couple of weeks ago, a tricky new Firefox plug-in called Firesheep made hijacking someone's Web browsing session point-and-click simple. You should take extra precautions to ensure that nobody hacks into your online accounts when you surf on public Wi-Fi networks.

ICO: Business lags public sector in data protection Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST The public sector has greater awareness of data protection than large private businesses, a survey from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has shown.

2010 Women of Influence award winners named Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST Each year, the Women of Influence awards are presented to accomplished female professionals in information security, risk management and privacy.

More federal health database details coming following privacy alarm Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST In response to considerable privacy concerns, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is expected to soon release more details on its plans for a controversial new database containing information on the healthcare claims of millions of Americans.

Student who hacked Bill O'Reilly gets 30 months Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST A 23-year-old Bellevue, Ohio, man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following a 2007 online crime spree in which he used a network of hacked computers to attack and knock offline websites belonging to conservative pundits Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter.

iPhone's Safari dials calls without warning, says researcher Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST A security researcher is asserting that Apple has made a poor security decision by allowing its Safari browser to honor requests from third-party applications to perform actions such as making a phone call without warning a user.

Antitrust case against Microsoft over AV would be 'longshot,' says expert Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST Microsoft rivals would have little chance or prevailing in an antirust lawsuit challenging the vendor's move to distribute antivirus software through Windows service updates, an expert says.

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