Lookout has updated its security and antivirus app for Android to include a new feature called Lock Cam. If the user's phone is stolen or an incorrect passcode or pattern is entered too many times, the app will take a picture of the assailant using the front-facing camera. The picture will then be emailed to the phone's owner.
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‘Data Security’ Stories
Lookout security app for Android can now photograph thief, email the image
Silent Circle launches Android app offering full call and text encryption
Data security is important to every mobile user, but some need a bit of extra encryption on top of normal security measures. For those users, Silent Circle has launched the Silent Phone app, which allows Android users to call and message each other with full encryption over talk and text. The app can be nabbed from the Google Play store, and requires a corresponding Silent Circle account.
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Google taps Yubico for password USB rings of the future
This week it's been revealed that Google is getting pumped up about working with the company known as Yubico with intentions of creating a sort of "Password Key" that exists in a USB plug around your finger. The report that's about to be published in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine is bringing word from Google Vice President of Security Eric Grosse and Engineer Mayank Upadhyay on not just the key, but a variety of ways they see online account security working in the future. Are you ready to trust your online life to the ring around your finger?
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Multiple power plant workstations slammed by malware
According to the Homeland Security Department, multiple power plants in the United States were affected by malware during the beginning of October 2012. While details are relatively scarce, it was revealed that one of the power plants had been infected via a USB flash drive. The infection happened during a software update.
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Java tipped in Red October – may be Homeland Security’s hang-up
Over the past several days, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued warnings against using Java due to newly discovered security weaknesses - today it's been tipped that the Red October cyberespionage attacks may have had their own Java iterations. The two have not been put together by the Israeli IT security firm Seculert, the group that today suggests Red October was implemented not just via email downloads and USB sticks, but through web-based Java exploits as well. Could that and Homeland Security's warning be timed both right here at this point in time together without any relation to one another?
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Heroes of Newerth announces security breach
Online games can be a ton of fun (provided you're playing with the right people), but unfortunately their popularity makes them frequent targets of hackers. Heroes of Newerth, a MOBA game that's pretty popular despite the stiff competition from the likes of League of Legends, is apparently the latest online game to fall victim to a security breach. The game's developers announced the breach early this morning on the Heroes of Newerth forums.
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Google bug grants access to revoked Analytics and Webmaster Tools users
A fairly problematic bug is affecting Google accounts, granting revoked users access to the Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics they originally had access to. For example, a business that fired an employee and revoked his or her access rights may find itself in the uncomfortable position of that embittered ex-employee regaining access to the tools. As you'd expect, angry tweets and forum posts are lighting up the Internet.
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Hacker selling $700 Yahoo! email exploit
Hacker "TheHell" is selling an exploit that allows individuals to hijack a Yahoo! email account. The method is shown off in a video that was posted on Darkode, where the exploit is being sold for $700, and then reposted on YouTube. Yahoo! has been notified and is looking for the security hole, which it says can be fixed in a few hours once discovered.
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NASA updates on data breach, says 10,000 users compromised
Earlier today, we reported that NASA had suffered a serious security breach when one of its employee's laptops was stolen from his vehicle. Later today, NASA stated that it was implementing new security rules to prevent having data compromised like this again. Now the agency has released stats on the contents of the laptop, saying that about 10,000 users have been compromised.
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NASA now requiring encrypted laptops to avoid future breaches
Earlier today, we heard the news that NASA had suffered a major security breach when the laptop of an associate deputy administrator was stolen out of his car. The laptop contained the personal information of a number of NASA employees, including social security numbers. Naturally, this is a pretty big problem for NASA, so now it's no surprise that we're seeing the organization take measures to make sure that nothing on this scale happens again.
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Blizzard hit with lawsuit over Battle.net security
To many, securing your Battle.net account with one of the authenticators Blizzard offers is just the way the game is played. Folks have been using authenticators to secure their Battle.net accounts for years now, but one player has decided he's had enough. His name is Benjamin Bell, and he's the leading plaintiff in a new class action lawsuit brought against Blizzard.
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Anonymous celebrates Guy Fawkes Day with reported PayPal hack [UPDATE]
In case you don't remember, today is Guy Fawkes Day. Anonymous is trying to make sure that you remember the fifth of November, taking to Twitter today to announce that it has hacked PayPal and made off with nearly 28,000 passwords. According to The Next Web, Anonymous posted these passwords (along with usernames and telephone numbers in some cases) to Private Paste, though at the time of this writing the page linked to by the AnonymousPress Twitter account has been taken down. [UPDATE: PayPal responds below.]
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