Lookout Security rebuts rival's Android malware claims

Lookout Security rebuts rival's Android malware claims
Adscend denies Facebook, AG allegations
Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud
Hawaii legislators bid aloha to controversial data retention bill
Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec
Tech Leaders Call for Global Harmony on Privacy, Security
Juniper's financial challenges continue

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:13 AM PST

Researchers from Lookout Security disagreed with rival Symantec that 13 apps on the Android Market were malicious, instead saying that they showed the same behaviors as other ad-supported apps.

Adscend denies Facebook, AG allegations

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:41 AM PST

Adscend Media, the defendant in lawsuits filed this week by Facebook and the Washington attorney general, on Friday denied the allegations in the complaints and shifted blame to its affiliates.

Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:38 PM PST

Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.

Hawaii legislators bid aloha to controversial data retention bill

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:11 PM PST

Lawmakers in Hawaii quietly dropped a bill that would have required Internet service providers to collect the browsing histories of Internet users in the state and store the data for at least two years.

Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:46 PM PST

It was another busy week for hactivists attacking the online targets of their ire. This time, hackers under the banner AntiSec appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. government's online security website, in protest against the much-railed-against legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as other bills regarding intellectual protection. Similarly, the group Anonymous is believed to be behind the distributed denial-of-service attack on Thursday that brought down the European Parliament's website in what is thought to be retaliation for European support for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site the week before. Anonymous also opposes a treaty being ratified in Europe now called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That deals with infringement of intellectual property rights.

Tech Leaders Call for Global Harmony on Privacy, Security

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:30 PM PST