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Phishing gang nabbed after woman robbed of £1 million life savings

The Met's Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested 14 people in connection with an extraordinary phishing attack that robbed a British woman of her APS1 million ($1.58 million) life savings. 

Spear-phishing stats revealed

Many of the 12 men and 2 women detained in London and the West Midlands are accused of acting as 'mules' who helped launder the siphoned funds from the woman and other victims in return for payouts of between APS9,000 to APS75,000 each.

According to the PCeU, much of the stolen money was spent by the suspects in only three days during the Christmas period on "items ranging from cheeseburgers to high-end computers and even gold bars."

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Stolen encryption key the source of compromised certificate problem, Symantec says

When Kaspersky Lab last week spotted code-signed Trojan malware dubbed Mediyes that had been signed with a digital certificate owned by Swiss firm Conpavi AG and issued by Symantec, it touched off a hunt to determine the source of the problem. 

The answer, says Symantec's website security services (based on the VeriSign certificate and authentication services acquisition), is that somehow the private encryption key associated with Conpavi AG certificate had been stolen.

BACKGROUND: Kaspersky Lab spots malware signed with digital certificate

"The private key for Conpavi was exposed," says Quentin Liu, senior director of engineering at the Symantec division. "Someone got hold of the private key." For this type of digital certificate, the private key is held by the certificate owner, in this case, Conpavi. Whether the private encryption key was stolen by an insider at Conpavi or outside attacker isn't known. But the incident points out the risks associated with private encryption keys for this type of digital certificate and the need to safeguard them.

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Soon after release, latest iPad model is jailbroken

Hackers claimed to have figured out a way to bypass Apple's technical restrictions and install unauthorized applications on the company's latest iPad upon its release last Friday. 

Apple forbids installing applications it has not approved, but hackers have found ways to "jailbreak" devices, or modify the code to allow unauthorized programs from alternative application stores such as Cydia.

THE VERDICT: New iPad wins rave reviews

IN PICTURES: iPad mania around the world

There are three different methods to jailbreak the latest Apple iOS 5.1 software, and videos and screenshots posted over the weekend showed the hacks, according to the Dev-Team, which developed the first jailbreak tool.

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Security Wonks Tussle Over Tolly Test

Security experts have been debating for years the merits of whitelists versus blacklists in securing an enterprise, and last week the debate continued to rage with the release of some test results from the Tolly Group. The group tested three endpoint protection programs: McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 and Parity Suite 6.0 from Bit9, which also sponsored the tests.

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Invasion of Privacy Court Ruling Could Be a Game-Changer

The Court of Appeal for Ontario recently considered whether there was a cause of action for the invasion of personal privacy in Jones v.Tsige. The case involved two bank employees, Sandra Jones and Winne Tsige, who worked at two different branches of the same bank. Over the course of four years, the respondent had used her work computer to secretly access the appellant's banking records.

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Dell Bolsters Security Portfolio With SonicWall Buy

Dell is acquiring network-security and data-protection tool provider SonicWall for an estimated $1 billion to $1.5 billion. This is the latest in a series of acquisitions Dell has made in recent months. It has acquired Force 10, Perot Systems and SecureWorks. All of these companies focus on different areas: Perot Systems is a consultant; SecureWorks offers managed security services. The addition of SonicWall rounds out Dell's portfolio.

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Google's New Privacy Policy vs. the World

Even before Google launched its new privacy policy earlier this month, consolidating separate privacy policies for more than 60 applications, legal issues had surfaced. Now, attorneys general from more than 31 States have accused Google of violating privacy laws because of complaints from users that they were finding ads are popping up on YouTube just after they did a search on Google Maps about the same subject.

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Your Employees May Be Causing That Data Drip, Drip, Drip You're Hearing

Nearly 80 percent of organizations have experienced a data breach in the last two years due to employee negligence or maliciousness. That was one of the findings in a study released last week by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by antivirus software maker Trend Micro.

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Pew Study: All Search Engines Being Equally Intrusive, Google's the Best

There is no question that Google is the dominant player in the search engine arena, and a new survey released Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 83 percent of U.S. search engine users rated Google as their preferred search engine, despite concerns about the company's data-collection and advertising practices.

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No Cloud Apps at Your Company? Don't Just Blame IT

Corporate concerns about potential Internet security risks have skyrocketed, not only because of Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking tools, but also as a result of the rising unilateral adoption of Software as a Service and other cloud services by business end-users without the authorization of corporate IT.

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The Privacy Shell Game, Part 2

The White House has proposed a consumer privacy bill of rights, a step that could result in new laws regarding what companies can do with information about their online customers and users. Privacy advocates are cautiously optimistic, though some fear the result will be laws rendered toothless by lobbyists. Other critics already see problems in the way the proposal is structured.

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Wrong paperwork used to seize Megaupload property, judge says

An order granted to law enforcement allowing them to seize luxury cars and other personal effects from the estate of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is invalid, a judge in New Zealand ruled on Friday.

A police commissioner applied for the wrong type of seizure order, requested by the U.S., which now is "null and void and has no legal effect," Judge Judith Potter ruled.

The ruling means Dotcom has a chance to recover some of the items, which reportedly included a Rolls Royce and a pink Cadillac, seized during his Jan. 20 arrest at his mansion outside Auckland. It was unclear on Monday the next step Dotcom would have to take to get his property returned, and his attorneys could not immediately be reached.

Dotcom, 38, faces extradition to the U.S. on various copyright infringement and money laundering charges relating to his website Megaupload, a file-sharing and storage website, which was shutdown in January.

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Microsoft blames security info-sharing program for attack code leak

Microsoft on Friday confirmed that sample attack code created by the company had likely leaked to hackers from a program it runs with antivirus vendors. 

"Details of the proof-of-concept code appear to match the vulnerability information shared with Microsoft Active Protection Program (MAPP) partners," Yunsun Wee, a director with Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, said in a statement posted on the company's site .

"Microsoft is actively investigating the disclosure of these details and will take the necessary actions to protect customers and ensure that confidential information we share is protected pursuant to our contracts and program requirements," Wee added.

Under MAPP, Microsoft provides select antivirus companies with technical information about bugs before Microsoft patches the flaws. MAPP is meant to give third-party security vendors advance warning so that they can craft detection signatures.

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It's Business as Usual for Anonymous as Panda Takes a Hit

The hacktivists known as "Anonymous" have retaliated following Tuesday's news of the arrests of LulzSec hackers exposed by their former leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur. Overnight, Anonymous hackers took down more than 25 websites belonging to Panda Security. They also posted email addresses, usernames and passwords of more than a hundred of the firm's employees and defaced a number of marketing-related sites.

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The Privacy Shell Game, Part 1

With much fanfare, the Obama administration recently unveiled a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protections online in the United States. Components of the plan include an online consumer privacy bill of rights and a stakeholder-driven process to specify how those rights apply in specific business contexts.

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In new attack on mobile handsets, fraudsters target one-time passwords

Security for mobile handsets keeps improving. But then, mobile threats to those handsets keep improving as well. 

Among the most recent, reported by Trusteer, a Boston-based provider of secure web access services, are two online banking fraud schemes designed to defeat the one-time password (OTP) authorization systems used by many banks.

IN DEPTH: How to protect online transactions

According to Trusteer, these new threats go a step beyond earlier attacks in which criminals would change a victim's phone number to redirect OTPs to them.

"In these new scams, the criminals are stealing the actual mobile device SIM (subscriber identity module) card," the company said.

The first kind of attack uses the Gozi Trojan to steal IMEI (international mobile equipment identity) numbers from online bank account holders when they log in.

"Once they have the IMEI number, the criminals contact the victim's wireless service provider, report the mobile device as lost or stolen, and request a new SIM card. With this new SIM card, all OTPs intended for the victim's phone are sent to the fraudster-controlled device," Trusteer said.

Oren Kedem, director of product marketing for Trusteer, said the Gozi attacks are mainly in the U.S. and that, "the level of infection is quite significant," even though the damage is not yet extensive.

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Cold-calling scammers target antivirus customers, diversify their tactics

Tech support scammers have started targeting antivirus customers and have diversified their techniques, according to reports from antivirus vendors Avast and ESET. 

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Cold-calling scams that target English-speaking computer users have been a common occurrence during the past two years. The scammers usually pose as tech support engineers who work for Microsoft or ISPs in an attempt to trick victims into buying questionable security or PC optimization software.

However, it seems that these attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted, with callers beginning to impersonate employees from companies that users have already entrusted with their computers' protection.

"During the past week or so, we have received some complaints and it appears that some of our customers are being targeted by a new scam," said Adam Riley, head of third party suppliers at antivirus firm Avast Software, in a blog post on Tuesday.

A small number of Avast customers have recently received unsolicited phone calls from people claiming to be Avast customer service representatives, who asked for money to fix problems identified on their computers, Riley said.

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LulzSec Arrests Take a Few Heads Off the Hydra

Authorities in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and in Ireland, have arrested five suspected hackers affiliated with Lulz Security, more commonly known as "LulzSec," a group of so-called hacktivists. Among those arrested is Hector Xavier Monsegur, the suspected leader of the group. Monsegur, who went by the nickname "Sabu," actually cooperated with the FBI to help track and arrest the other LulzSec members.

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Protecting NASA From Hackers Is Not Rocket Science, Say Analysts

NASA has become a popular target of hackers. The space agency's computer network was breached 13 times in 2011 -- to the point where suspected Chinese hackers gained "full functional control" of computers used by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory," a government inspector general told congressional investigators.

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In India, 112 government websites hacked in three months

A total of 112 government websites in India were hacked from December to February, a federal minister said Wednesday, reflecting India's continuing problem with online security. 

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Among the websites that were hacked was that of the state-owned telecommunications service provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam.

A large number of government websites are attacked every quarter as site managers not do thorough regular audits of their systems as required of them, said a source close to the situation who asked not to be named. "This reflects a slipshod approach to security, rather than great expertise of the hackers," said another source.

In addition to federal government websites, such as that of the country's Planning Commission, a large number of state government websites were also hacked during the period, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Sachin Pilot, told Parliament, according to India's Press Information Bureau. Pilot did not provide data for hacks of government sites in earlier quarters.

India has border disputes with China and Pakistan, which have spilled online in the form of cross-border hacks. The website of the country's high-profile Central Bureau of Investigation was hacked in late 2010 by a group calling itself the "Pakistani Cyber Army."

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Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own

Cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox have become popular, but organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they manage on their own for bulk file transfers among business partners.

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They're setting up their own large-file transfer services using products from Biscom and Accellion, among others, to allow password-protected access to upload or download large amounts of data. Among the advantages to these products, according to enterprise IT managers using them, is they can be integrated with Active Directory or LDAP for role-based end-user authentication privileges.

Rodney Cook, information technology manager for Denver-based CACHIE Support Services, the separate tech services arm for the Colorado Community Managed Care Network (CCMCN), says his job is to provide help to outside healthcare providers in setting up electronic patient records that qualify under federal Medicare/Medicaid rules.

CACHIE provides a fairly new type of electronic file storage and management service that's now being funded in every state as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Cook says. "Every state has at least one," he adds, saying CACHIE is funded in Colorado to encourage the rollout of electronic health records and provide data storage for organizations that don't want to do this on their own.

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Sen. Wants FTC to Take a Hard Look at Mobile Apps' Snooping Practices

Neither Apple nor Google are doing enough when it comes to addressing how iPhone and Android applications can access users' private information, according to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. On Monday Schumer called for the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into reports that iPhone and Android applications can essentially steal data like private photos and address books.

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Data Breach? Try Rubbing Some Free Credit Services on It

Before your company finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit over a data breach that spills personal information about your customers all over the Internet, you might want to take a look at some recent research by Carnegie Mellon and Temple Universities. Data breach victims are six times less likely to file litigation against a company if they receive free credit monitoring following a breach, according to the analysis.

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News International security chief arrested in phone hacking case

Add one significant -- and different -- title to more than 30 current and former employees of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary that publishes Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, who have been arrested in a phone hacking scandal. 

7 hot security companies to watch

The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that Scotland Yard had arrested six people, including Mark Hanna, the media company's director of group security since 2009. While details are limited so far -- there has been no statement from law enforcement on what role, if any, Hanna may have played in the phone hacking -- like the others this week, he was arrested, "on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice," according to the Guardian.

Which is another way of saying that Hanna, along with Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive and former editor of the Sun and the News of the World, and four others, are suspected of attempting to cover up alleged crimes such as bribing police or illegally intercepting voice mail or email.

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Google restores interoperability with AOL AIM

Google and AOL have restored the interoperability between their two instant messaging (IM) networks, a little over two weeks after it was temporarily suspended due to a spam flood originating in AOL's AIM that affected Gmail Chat and Google Talk users.

An AOL official originally forecasted that a fix to the spam problem could be rolled out on Thursday of last week, but the process took a bit longer, finally culminating on Tuesday.

The interoperability between the two IM networks is now again active and everything is "running smoothly," an AOL spokeswoman said via e-mail.

This means that users logged into the Google network can engage in IM sessions with users who are on the AIM network. Without the interoperability, people need to have separate accounts for both services, using the Google account to communicate with users on Google's network and the AIM account for communicating with users on the AIM network.

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Google's Walls Come Crashing Down

If you've visited basically any of Google's major services over the last several weeks, you may have noticed a little orange box that pops up as soon as you get to the page, sometimes hanging out right over the spot you wish you could click. "We're changing our privacy policy and terms. This stuff matters. Learn more or dismiss."

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Loophole Could Give Android Devs a Private Picture Show

Similar to Apple's iOS, Android is apparently vulnerable to apps secretly copying photos. Android developer Ralph Gootee created a test app that masquerades as a simple timer but steals the most recent image on the user's smartphone and posts it on a public photo-sharing site. Critics said the development further emphasizes the danger of Google's hands-off approach to the Android Market.

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Ukraine seen as a growing 'haven for hackers'

Perhaps the biggest mistake the recently arrested leaders of the Anonymous spinoff hacker group LulzSec made was operating in the U.S. and European countries instead of Ukraine. There, they might have remained beyond the reach of the law indefinitely. 

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The Kyiv Post last week reported that in spite of the high-profile arrests of five alleged hacker "kingpins" in October 2010, "Ukraine's would-be major crackdown on cybercrime is increasingly looking like (a) real bust." The result is the country becoming, "a haven for hackers," in the view of analysts, including some Ukraine security officials.

The five, who allegedly used Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008, to steal more than $72 million from U.S. bank accounts, faced up to six years in prison.
But within months of the arrests, they were all released and remain free as an investigation reportedly continues.

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CanSecWest browser-hacking contests offer bigger bounties, get small results

Contest organizers this year increased sixfold the prizes given out for successful zero-day browser exploits during the CanSecWest security conference, but wound up with just three more exploits to show for it. 

The prizes sounded tempting -- more than $1 million was available -- but the net result was that fewer contestants participated, and those who did produced a total of five exploits that browser makers could then patch to make their products safer. This despite the fact that potential participants had two different contests in which to compete.

MORE HACKS: 10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon

The fifth annual Pwn2Own competition, sponsored by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), yielded one zero-day exploit each against current versions of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The contest drew just two teams of competitors.

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FBI Chief Calls Cyberthreats Public Enemy No. 1

In the near future, cyberthreats will be the leading threat to the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller warned in a speech on Thursday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Traditional crime, from mortgage and healthcare fraud to child exploitation, have moved online, while terrorists have become increasingly cyber-savvy, Mueller said.

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EU Turns Up the Volume on Google Privacy Grumbling

Google's new privacy policy, which took effect Thursday, violates EU law, European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said on the BBC's Radio Four Thursday morning. Google has rebuffed requests by the European Union privacy body to delay implementation of changes to the policy due to its concerns.

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Cybercriminals bypass e-banking protections with fraudulent SIM cards, says Trusteer

Cybercriminals are impersonating victims in order to obtain replacement SIM cards from their mobile carriers, which they then use to defeat phone-based Internet banking protections, security vendor Trusteer said in a blog post. 

Trusteer researchers have recently seen variants of the Gozi online banking Trojan injecting rogue Web forms into online banking sessions to trick victims into exposing their phone's IMEI (international mobile equipment identity) number, in addition to other personal and security information.

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The likely explanation for the Trojan's collection of phone-specific data is that it's used to obtain a fraudulent SIM card for the victim's phone number by reporting their phone as stolen. Trusteer's director of product marketing, Oren Kedem, said. This would allow fraudsters to bypass bank anti-fraud defenses that are based on one-time passwords (OTPs).

OTPs are unique codes that online banking customers receive on their phones when money transfers are initiated from their accounts. These codes need to be inputted into the bank's website to authorize those transactions.

Fraudsters have developed several techniques in order to defeat such anti-fraud systems. Some trick their victims into installing malicious mobile apps that forward OTP text messages to phone numbers under their control.

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NATO commander targeted by fake Facebook page

A simple Facebook impersonation attack was used to tempt personal data from military and government associates of NATO's supreme Commander James Stavridis, news sources have reported. 

Security snafus

Despite NATO staff having been warned about fake Facebook pages in the past, The Daily Telegraph reports that "senior British military officers and Ministry of Defence officials" were among those temporarily fooled by 'friend' requests from the fake Stavridis page that appeared earlier this year.

The attackers will not have gained any vital information from this attack beyond a few phone numbers and a list if gullible and now embarrassed individuals worth targetting in their own right.

For the record, Admiral Stavridis does not have a Facebook page, nor would it be appropriate for a man with the job of heading the world's most powerful military appliance to sign up for such a service in a professional capacity.

As with almost every other cyberattack with a geo-political dimension, the fake page attack is being pinned on Chinese intelligence although the level of sophistication required to create a bogus page would be open to anyone.

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Google to EU: Delay? No Way!

Google on Tuesday rebuffed a request by a European Union privacy body to delay implementation of changes in the search giant's privacy policies set to take effect on March 1. "[W]e have notified over 350 million authenticated Google users and provided highly visible notifications on our homepage and in search results for our non-authenticated users," said Google's Peter Fleischer.

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Are Security Vendors Living in Glass Houses?

What would happen if you paid taxes or protection money but didn't get protected because your protectors themselves were getting clobbered? Worse still, what if they didn't tell you they had been compromised and that you might not be safe? That situation played out recently after yet another company suffered a system breach and kept largely silent on the matter.

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Anti-Putin protesters targeted by data-wiping malware

Criminals with an apparent grudge against demonstrators opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin are targeting the country's citizens with data-wiping malware, Symantec has reported. 

7 hot security companies to watch

The attack uses the lure of one of a number of Russian-language protest subject lines, including, 'Meeting for equal elections,' and 'all to demonstration,' offering instructions in the form of an attached Word document.

Attacks targeting popular events and interests are utterly standard but the engineering of this attack has unusual elements to it that hint at the possibility of a political as well as straightforwardly criminal motivation.

The first is its 500KB size, about fifty times larger than the average bulk spam which are normally designed to pass across the mail infrastructure as efficiently and unobtrusively as possible. Symantec doesn't spell it out but commercial or criminal spammers would be unlikely to be so send spam emails of this size, even when using Word documents.

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7 hot security companies to watch

There's a rush in security startups looking to tackle everything from identity management to encrypting cloud data. Here are some of the latest companies worth keeping an eye on.

OneID

Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.
Founded: March 2011
Funding: Not disclosed
Leader: Steve Kirsch, co-founder and CEO
Fun fact: Kirsch is a wealthy serial entrepreneur whose lineup of startups have included Mouse Systems, Frame Technology, Infoseek and other firms.
Why we're following it: This week Kirsch is launching OneID for what he calls the "next-generation PayPal" for digital identities. Kirsch says the basic technology, developed with engineers Jim Fenton, Adam Back and Bobby Beckman, is integrated into websites to let users create their own digital identities and hold payment information securely and use it as a form-filling capability. Kirsch also says the firm in the future intends to tackle hard identity issues such as proving age, citizenship and residency. It's a change-the-world infrastructure play, and OneID wouldn't be the first to find out it's hard to change the world. But one company, Salsa Labs, which handles payments and marketing services for about 2,000 nonprofit organizations, says it's integrating the identity and payment technology into its platform and OneID says to expect to hear from other companies supporting it in the future.

IN PICTURES: Hot security upstarts 

BACKGROUND: 10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon 

MORE: Security companies to watch

Pwnie Express

Headquarters: Barre, Vt.
Founded: 2010
Funding: No venture-capital funding
Leader: Dave Porcello, CEO and technical lead
Fun fact: Pwnie Express may be a one-man band, but it's profitable.
Why we're watching it: Mark Hughes, director of marketing and sales for the startup, admits it can be hard to get a good phone connection in this rural area of Vermont. But that didn't stop company founder Dave Porcello from coming up with vulnerability-assessment penetrating tools, including one called PwnPlug, that range in price from about $570 to $800. The network penetration tools, largely based on open source, compete with those from Core Security and Rapid7, among others. Pwnie Express is tiny, but with about $300,000 in revenues last year, was profitable.

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