H Security: Security vulnerability in SpamAssassin filter module

In December I set up a rule on our outbound email to let me know when people are sending Social Security Numbers in outbound email. Once I was satisfied with the accuracy of the rules, we set up some education for our physical security and HR Recruiters so they would understand why its a bad idea to send SSNs and what some alternative choices are . Once our big offenders had been notified I enabled a notification to the sender ...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may be using fake identities on social networks to investigate criminal activities, according to digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The EFF cites a 33-page FBI presentation obtained through a Freedom of Information request that describes how investigators should collect and use evidence from social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. The document says undercover operations online are helpful for contacting suspected criminals and victims, accessing private information and mapping ...

  When Panda Security found malware on a brand new Android-based Vodafone HTC Magic earlier this month, Vodafone said it was an "isolated local incident." Now, a second phone has been found harboring malware, including a program that turns infected machines into zombies as part of the Mariposa credit card and bank log-in-stealing botnet, according to Spain-based PandaLabs. After hearing about PandaLabs' discovery, an employee at another Spanish security company, S21Sec, checked his recently-acquired HTC Magic and found the Mariposa ...

Plenty of people download music from the internet every day, but illegal downloading has a huge economic impact and could put more than one million people out of work by 2015, experts say. A study into internet piracy by a Paris-based consultancy published on Wednesday showed that 1.2 million jobs in the European Union could be lost over the next five years if more is not done to clamp down on illegal downloading. The study by TERA Consultants for the ...

U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. A New York federal judge on Tuesday sided with the Securities and Exchange Commission and froze the assets of Broco Investments, believed to be a one-trader operation based in St. Petersburg, Russia. The SEC said Broco capitalized by artificially moving ...

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area ...

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