Information Protection and Security

The statistics from WhiteHat's report, released today, cover vulnerabilities found in custom Web applications on 1,364 different Web sites. That number is only a small fraction of the number of sites online, but it represents those companies that have contracted with WhiteHat for additional security scanning, and therefore likely care more about security flaws than the average Web site.

New WhiteHat Security data shows vulnerability-free Websites start with half, but similar, bugs as sites riddled with bugs.
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Program focuses on continuous monitoring, shared responsibility and central controls.

Hundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked in recent days by users pointing out what they say is a weakness in how the social-networking site handles the administration of its groups.
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The first known worm for Apple's iPhone is spreading on jail-broken iPhones in Australia. The worm takes advantage of the default password for SSH used by many jail-broken phones and places an image of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley on the device.
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The new Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) found worm infections nearly doubled, vulnerability counts down by nearly one-third in the first half of 2009.

NASA networks contain security weaknesses that open up highly sensitive personal and scientific data to hackers, possibly affecting space missions, federal auditors said.
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Protocols are in place, but patch management is spotty.
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The patch fixes flaws that would enable malformed SMS messages or mobile applications to crash Android 1.5 handsets.
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It’s reasonable to believe that cyber threats will increase in the future. Organized cybercrime groups have become skilled at coordinating  networks of infected computers (botnets), and configuring them to gather large stores of stolen data. Meanwhile, scammers have become efficient in turning stolen data into cash. As members of a botnet t