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 | Industrial Control Flaws ReportedResearchers at a security conference reported multiple flaws in various industrial control programs used in oil, gas, water and electrical distribution systems.
The work was part of a project called Basecamp sponsored by an industrial control systems security company, Digital Bond. The reports were presented at a SCADA Security Scientific Symposium. Eight industrial control programs from various vendors were tested by six researchers.
They reported finding vulnerabilities ranging from privilege escalation and information disclosure to denial-of-service or message-flooding and allowing remote execution of code on systems.
A malicious program called Stuxnet was the first to exploit flaws in the SCADA -- supervisory control and data acquisition -- programs. It was used specifically in attacks on Iran's nuclear building facilities. |
 | Holidays Boost Tablets, E-ReadersThe Christmas holiday season was a boon to sales of tablets and e-readers, Pew Research surveys find.
Pew says ownership of both tablets and e-readers nearly doubled at the end of last year and almost a third of Americans now own such a device. It attributed much of the jump to the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet and other low-cost devices.
Pew found ownership of both tablets and e-readers increased from 10 to 19 percent of all adults between December and January. It said 29 percent of all American adults now own at least one device. |
 | Megauploads Assets SeizedHong Kong authorities seized $42 million in assets of Megauploads, in the latest round of crackdown on that file-sharing enterprise, which American agencies shut down last week.
Hong Kong Customs officials said the assets, including high-speed servers found in expensive hotel rooms, were suspected criminal proceeds.
Police in New Zealand also seized 18 vehicles of Kim Dotcom, the accused leader of the enterprise who is a former hacker and a convicted felon. Authorities said he was living in a $30 million mansion with the vehicles, including a vintage pink Cadillac and such cars as Lamborghinis, Maseratics and Rolls Royces.
His lawyer, meantime, told a New Zealand court that Megauploads was not stealing copyrighted material, as the American charges allege, and that United States officials just did not understand the business. |
 | Symantec Issues Anonymous WarningSymantec is advising its users to disable or uninstall its remote access program pcAnywhere until it can patch flaws threatened by the hacking group Anonymous.
Security experts called it an unprecedented move.
Anonymous claimed to have breached the Symantec network and stolen source code for some programs, including pcAnywhere, which allows a user to control a home personal computer from a notebook or similar remote device.
In a statement, Symantec said, "At this time, Symantec recommends disabling the product until we release a final set of software updates that resolve currently known vulnerability risks." It confirmed that some source code had been accessed. |
 | Sharing Sites Changing RulesSeveral popular Internet file-sharing website have disabled its sharing functions in the aftermath of the shutdown of another sharing site, Megauploads.
FileSonic, FileServe and Upload all cut off sharing of movies, games and other material in the wake of the Megauploads closure and charges of copyright violations.
These "cyberlockers" let users upload, store and sometimes share large files. FileSonic said its users would no longer be able to share, although they can still upload and store, but can only access their own material.
Authorities blacked out Megauploads on charges it was being used to illegally distribute copyrighted material. |
 | 5 Million Android Users InfectedUp to 5 million Androids may have been infected in the largest-ever assault on those devices, the security firm Symantec says.
Symantec said 13 different applications, with titles like "Sexy Girls Puzzle" to "Counter Strike Ground Force," were used to trick users into downloading malicious programs. They came from three different publishers, none legitimate.
Symantec based its estimate of infection based on Android Market download figures and said the low end of the range would be at least 1 million. |
 | EU Privacy Act Sparks AttacksAdoption of new Internet privacy regulations has sparked attacks on European Union organizations by the activist group Anonymous.
Anonymous, which has a history of assaults against government and establishment institutions, attacked the EU's copyright website and sites of the EU Parliaments and member governments. It was protesting adoption of laws against Internet counterfeiting, similar to pending legislation in the United States which has led to similar problems. |
 | Federal Security Site HackedThe federal government's Internet security website was hacked by the group calling itself AntiSec, saying it was protesting pending legislation covering piracy.
OnGuardOnline.gov is a partnership of 14 federal agencies to share information on security issues.
AntiSec posted Internet notices saying the intrusion was part of "a relentless war against the corporate internet", specifically legislation that would toughen enforcement piracy regulations. |
 | Open SSL Project Fixes FlawThe Open SSL Project has issued a new version of its library to fix a flaw introduced in a patch produced Jan. 6.
The patch repaired a vulnerability in the Data Transport Layer Security protocol. That allowed an attacker to decrypt secure communications without having an encryption key. Open SSL developers said that flaw could be used to mount a denial-of-service attack.
Open SSL is a security feature embedded in many operating systems. |
 | Google Patches Chrome BugsGoogle has patched several bugs in its Chrome web browser and reported one patch had actually been produced two weeks ago but was inadvertently omitted from a notice about repairs.
The old bug was the most serious of the lot, which could cause the browser to crash in certain circumstances. |
 | Hot Tip: Watch Mega FakesScammers take advantage of every opportunity and raced to exploit the federal government's takedown of the file-sharing Megauploads website.
Authorities blacked out that site and arrested its key operators. But within hours, fakes began appearing on the Internet.
Most appeared to be phishing expeditions, security researchers said, trying to entice users into revealing sensitive information.
Some sites are obvious fakes. One uses only an Internet protocol address, without a website name. Others have spelling errors, key indicators for phony material on the Internet.
Authorities said Megaupload was being used to illegally distribute copyrighted material, but many uses said it also was used to distribute legitimate information and are hoping it will come back. That hope is obviously fueling the fake boom.
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