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Veracode wins patent infringement lawsuit against Appthority   Veracode has prevailed in its litigation against mobile security vendor Appthority, in which the latter was accused of infringing on two of Veracode's patents. Veracode said that two of the three claims infringed upon the static debugging patent (the ‘924’ patent).   According to 451 Research, the patents are “Static Debugging Tool and Method” and “Software Analysis Framework”. The jury found that Appthority had willfully infringed on two...

The third party breach which affected Goodwill may have affected two other companies and gone on for around 18 months. According to Brian Krebs, third-party payment vendor C&K Systems disclosed this information and said that the investigation determined malicious hackers had access to its systems “intermittently” between February 10th, 2013 and August 14th, 2014, and that the intrusion led to the the installation of a “highly specialised point of sale (POS) infostealer.rawpos malware variant that...

Nigerian police are seeking a former bank employee who hacked into systems and transferred $40 million to a raft of bogus accounts.   According to Finextra, police are seeking 38 year old Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, who worked in the information and communication technology department of Skye Bank. He allegedly provided a gang with physical access to the bank's computer servers under the pretext of carrying out weekend maintenance. The gang were in the process of...

The UK Government is making good progress in implementing its National Cyber Security Programme but has struggle to encourage SMEs to make their businesses more resilient to attack.   According to a review by the National Audit Office, the programme is on track to spend its budget of £860 million by March 2016. The Government spent £12.4m last year on engaging with the private sector and the public, with a further £21.1m earmarked for 2014-15,...

Small businesses in the UK's technology industry are set to compete for a share of £4m as part of a new Government competition to tackle cyber crime.   Business secretary Vince Cable will announce the competition, which will see companies develop ideas to tackle online threats, at the inaugural US-UK Global Cyber Security Summit in London today.   The competition will be run by The Technology Strategy Board in 2015 which will award funding to...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division has launched the achievement of full operational capability of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System.   Dwveloped to expand the FBI’s biometric identification capabilities, it will eventually replace the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) in addition to adding new services and capabilities.   As part of NGI’s full operational capability, the NGI team is introducing two new services: Rap Back and...

Comcast has issued a statement denying that the ISP is blocking Tor and denying that there is any record of exchanges between Comcast and Tor users.   Its Vice President said that he uses Tor at times, adding, “Comcast doesn’t monitor our customer’s browser software, web surfing or online history.”   Over the weekend, accusations surfaced that Comcast has been threatening Tor users with termination of service. According to reports, Comcast subscribers claimed that agents from the company instructed...

Intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire internet, including end-user devices.   According to Spiegel, in pursuing that goal, they have broken into networks belonging to Deutsche Telekom. It said that “Treasure Map” is the mandate for a massive raid on the digital world. It aims to map the Internet, and not just the large traffic channels, such as telecommunications cables. It also seeks to identify the devices across which our data flows, so-called...

A used computer dealer based in Canada has accused EY of a data breach, legal documents filed by the company in court indicate that the company is uncertain that the breach is real, according to a report in Network World.   The dealer, Mark Morris, said that one of the servers he bought for $300 in March from Synergy Partners, where he had been a contractor, had not been wiped clean and contained Ernst & Young client business...

The US Government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday.   In a blog post, the papers outline Yahoo’s secret and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle to resist the government’s demands for the tech firm to cooperate with the NSA’s controversial Prism surveillance programme, revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden last year.   The US government amended a key...