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Cyber threat designers “shared source code”, say researchers

Your Expert Witness PCB pic Researchers at the Russian-based IT security company Kaspersky Lab have revealed that the people responsible for two powerful malware threats, Flame and Stuxnet/Duqu, must have worked together at some point because of the discovery of shared source code.

Alexander Gostev, Kaspersky Lab's chief security expert, said: "The new findings that reveal how the teams shared source code of at least one module in the early stages of development prove that the groups co-operated at least once."

Vitaly Kamluk, the firm's chief malware expert, said: "We think that these teams are different; two different teams working with each other, helping each other at different stages."

Trusteer Mobile Secures Smartphones and Tablets Against Banking Fraud

Your Expert Witness tablets Secure Browser, Account Access Lockdown and Security Dashboard to Mobile Endpoints; Provides Mobile Security SDK and Secure Out-of-Band Transaction Verification for Financial Institutions

BALTIMORE, Payments 2012 Conference, April 30, 2012 –Trusteer, theleading provider of endpoint cybercrime preventionsolutions, today announced a newversion of the Trusteer Mobile service which prevents mobile and online banking fraud. Trusteer Mobile detects mobilemalware infection andhelps bank customers fix security vulnerabilitieson their devices. End users can also turn off access to their online bank accounts from anywhere using their mobile devices and safely access the bank web site via a secure mobile browser. Financial institutions can authorize online banking transactions using Trusteer Mobile Out-of-band Authentication for Android and iOS devices.

Government plans shake-up of data sharing

Your Expert Witness Francis Maude On 6 March the Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude made a speech to the annual conference of the Information Commissioner’s Office, in which he addressed the problems of data sharing in the public sector.

He called data the new resource of the 21st century and compared the internet to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. However, the public sector had not kept pace with the changes that the internet had allowed.

“In the past,” he said, “the public sector has not been clever or effective at sharing key intelligence. Whether that’s sharing important data with the public, with the private sector or with each other.”

If your data’s in the clouds, keep your feet on the ground

The Law Society of Scotland has issued guidance on cloud computing services, following “extensive consultation with law firms, in-house counsel and cloud providers”.

According to the regulator, the advance of such technology has made third party outsourcing of cloud services highly attractive to many businesses, including law firms, bringing benefits such as cost reduction, increased flexibility and in-built support and maintenance without the need for an in-house IT team.

'Spam capital' India arrests six in phishing probe

spam capital Police in India say they have arrested six foreign nationals suspected of defrauding hundreds of people using text message and email scams.

Scam victims were duped after being told they had won a lottery.