Court dismisses most breach claims against Heartland by banks

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• Court dismisses most breach claims against Heartland by banks
• Two zero-day vulnerabilities found in Flash Player
• UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam
• Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws
• Google needs to be open about Google Wallet, analyst says
• Google's Schmidt calls Carrier IQ software a keylogger
• Senators, critics question ICANN's generic TLD plan
• Microsoft plans 20 patches next week, likely to fix Duqu and BEAST bugs
• Feds launch cloud security standards program
• New Cisco initiative addresses growth in cloud-based services

Court dismisses most breach claims against Heartland by banks Posted: 09 Dec 2011 08:40 AM PST A U.S. district court in Texas has dismissed all but one of the claims by several banks against Heartland Payment Systems over a massive data breach the payment processor disclosed almost three years ago.

Two zero-day vulnerabilities found in Flash Player Posted: 09 Dec 2011 08:05 AM PST Two newly discovered vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash Player can be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely, according to advisories from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and various security research companies.

UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam Posted: 09 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated £1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims who had taken out student loans.

Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:34 AM PST Executives from Microsoft and Google on Thursday gave a glimpse into the size of their privacy organizations, which are required for the companies to try to avoid running foul of complicated U.S. privacy regulations and prepare for changes coming to privacy laws around the globe.

Google needs to be open about Google Wallet, analyst says Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:27 AM PST Google launched its Android mobile operating system as an open platform, but the company is being closed in how it is working with Verizon Wireless on the Google Wallet mobile payment app on the Galaxy Nexus, an analyst said.

Google's Schmidt calls Carrier IQ software a keylogger Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:05 AM PST Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today distanced his company from Carrier IQ's software, even as he described the technology as a keylogger. Schmidt's comments came at an Internet freedom conference in the Netherlands.

Senators, critics question ICANN's generic TLD plan Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:05 AM PST The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may be moving forward too fast on a plan to sell hundreds of new generic top-level domains starting early next year, several U.S. senators said Thursday.

Microsoft plans 20 patches next week, likely to fix Duqu and BEAST bugs Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:34 AM PST Microsoft today announced it will issue 14 security bulletins next week to patch 20 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, and Windows Media Player.

Feds launch cloud security standards program Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:30 PM PST Federal agencies will soon have a government-wide security standard for assessing, authorizing and monitoring cloud products and services.

New Cisco initiative addresses growth in cloud-based services Posted: 09 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Cisco has introduced CloudVerse as a framework designed to help organizations build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds. Cisco CloudVerse combines three elements -- Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services.

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