Tens of thousands of video conferencing setups, including some in corporate meeting rooms where the most confidential information is discussed, are vulnerable to spying attacks

via Video conferencing mistakes make espionage easy, say researchers.

Washington’s attorney general announced two new lawsuits against Adscend Media, a company that allegedly has been earning US$20 million a year using a Facebook scam

via Facebook, Washington state sue alleged ad scammer.

Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world’s foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month

via Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio.

The recommendation that users disable or delete the software is the takeaway from a surprise security advisory issued by Symantec late Tuesday, which warns customers to “only use pcAnywhere for business-critical purposes,” and even then, only after configuring the software “in a way that minimizes potential risks.”

via Symantec: Users Should Disable PCAnywhere Now – Security – Vulnerabilities and threats – Informationweek.

The FBI is looking for a “geospatial alert and analysis mapping application” that will allow its Strategic Information and Operations Center SIOC to “quickly vet, identify and geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats

via FBI Seeks Data-Mining App for Social Media – Government – Security – Informationweek.

he Anonymous hacking group recruited unwitting accomplices in Thursday’s attacks against U.S. government sites

via Anonymous dupes users into joining Metaupload attack – Computerworld.

The FBI said it arrested a computer programmer in New York this week and charged him with stealing proprietary software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The software known as the Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) handles all manner of U.S. government financial transactions

via FBI busts programmer for stealing US Treasury code.

Spammers have been exploiting a bug in McAfee’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) antivirus software to turn PCs into spam relays. As a result, a number of McAfee’s customers have had their emails blocked after their Internet protocol (IP) addresses were blacklisted by anti-spam services

via McAfee SaaS Antivirus Spews Spam – Security – Antivirus – Informationweek.

A member of the Anonymous hacktivist collective has published a list of Internet-facing Israeli SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems and alleged log-in details.

via Anonymous publishes Israeli SCADA log-in details.