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Security

October 2008

October 31, 2008

Online Gang Steals 500,000+ Bank, Credit Accounts

Researchers at RSA's FraudAction Research Lab have discovered that a single online gang has used one Trojan to collect over 500,000 bank and credit card account numbers .   According to The Wa... More >

October 30, 2008

Market for Stolen Identities Down, Too

So your portfolio's worth less -- sometimes a lot less -- in this troubled economy. Well the good news, if you can call it that, is that your stolen identity is worth a lot less , too, reports Fo... More >

Javascript New Language of Malware?

Javascript may be the next language of choice for malware , according to security researcher Itzik Kotler of Radware.   Kolter demonstrated an attack, dubbed Jinx, that takes advantage of a hole... More >

October 28, 2008

Attacker Uses Yahoo's HotJobs for Phishing

According to British network service firm Netcraft, someone has been launching phishing-based attacks using Yahoo's HotJobs site . Netcraft says the attacker has been using specially formatted JavaS... More >

October 27, 2008

'Joe the Plumber' Info Hacked

Once the hot glare of the public spotlight hits you, expect to be hacked.   The Columbus Dispatch is looking into investigations into why  personal data on "Joe the Plumber," a k a Samuel Jo... More >

Researchers Clone U.S. RFID Passports

Researchers at the University of Washington have shown the relative easiness of hacking the RFID tags in U.S. border passports and enhanced driver's licenses (EDLs), reports vnunet.com . In a join... More >

G1 Security Flaw Discovered

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Google's Android is not good enough for the Sprint brand in its current form.   According to InformationWeek , Hesse did not elaborate as to why he thinks the mobile o... More >

October 22, 2008

IDC Survey: Corporate E-mail Security No Good

According to a survey by IDC, 72 percent of companies are unable to stop data leaks via e-mail .   Although 85 percent of IT managers say they are concerned about the matter, current solutions ... More >

October 20, 2008

Anonymous Hacker Pleads Guilty in Scientology Attack

Dmitriy Guzner, a member of an underground hacking group called Anonymous, has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking the Church of Scientology's Web site and agreed to pay a $37,500 fine, reports e... More >

October 17, 2008

FBI Busts Credit Card Fraud Forum

The FBI has shut down a highly sophisticated Web site where fraudsters would trade stolen credit card data and get information on latest online scams, reports Reuters .   The Dark Market was ... More >

October 16, 2008

Adobe Flash Player 10 Fixes Clickjacking Flaw

Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player software that fixes a critical clickjacking flaw, according to PCWorld .   The flaw was discovered by security researchers Robert Hansen ... More >

October 14, 2008

Top Security Suites No Match for Targeted Attacks

Exploit tests by Secunia reveal that all-in-one security software packages from the major anti-virus vendors fail to detect custom-made malware, reports The Washington Post .   Secunia ran 300 ... More >

British MoD Data Loss Worse Than Originally Thought

A missing hard drive from the British Ministry of Defence contains the information of 1.7 million people, reports Times Online .   Originally officials thought the data loss affected a modest... More >

October 13, 2008

Security Spending to Grow, Regions Differ on Needs

The Institute for Applied Network Security predicts that IT security spending will continue to grow through 2009 across most industry sectors, despite reports that IT spending overall will be down.... More >

Just How Hacked is World Bank?

Fox News reports the World Bank has had at least six major intrusions since the summer of 2007: The World Bank Group's computer network -- one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the... More >

Spammers Target Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

Spammers are targeting Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release due out this week, according to vnunet.com .   The spam messages tempt users to download bogus patches by claiming to come from Micr... More >

October 9, 2008

Adobe Issues Workaround for Clickjacking Flaw

Although White Hat Security's Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen agreed not to demonstrate a clickjacking flaw in Adobe's Flash, a proof-of-concept was still leaked. But Grossman and Hansen are am... More >

Alleged Palin Hacker Pleads Not Guilty, Receives Trial Date

After being indicted and turning himself in to federal authorities yesterday , David Kernell, alleged hacker of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, pled not guilty.  ... More >

Asus Ships Eee PCs with Virus

Asustek has alerted Eee owners in Japan that a number of the PCs were found to contain malware , reports vnunet.com . It's not clear whether PCs in other parts of the world were shipped with the in... More >

October 8, 2008

Florida Really a Swing Voting State

Election watchers could get whiplash from the results of a judicial race in Palm Beach County, Fla., reports Wired . And it could be deja vu all over again come November, with the ugly return of t... More >

Alleged Palin E-Mail Hacker Indicted

The hacking of U.S. vice-presidential candidate and Alaska Governer Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account led to a search of the apartment of 20-year-old David Kernell and his three roommates by ... More >

October 7, 2008

Research Details Transit Card Security Flaws

Researchers in the Netherlands and Germany have published papers on security flaws in the Mifare Classic wireless smart card chip used in transit systems around the world, reports CNET News . &n... More >

Most Malware Comes from Adware, Report Shows

  <body><p>You can blame adware for most of the new malicious software, according to a report by Panda Security.<br/><br/><strong>CNET News</strong> reports t... More >

October 6, 2008

30 Million Consumer Records Exposed

A record 516 consumer data breaches were reported in the first nine months of this year, topping the total for 2007 of 446 incidents, reports The Washington Post .   That totals about 30 mill... More >

October 3, 2008

Researcher Finds Massive Web Hack

A security researcher warns that criminal gangs have obtained administrative log-in credentials for more than 200,000 Web sites , including the one used by the U.S. Postal Service, and are launching... More >

October 2, 2008

Lab Worker Pleads Guilty to Computer Theft

A former employee has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly 19,000 pieces of computer and office equipment from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.   Victor R. Papagno, a former c... More >

China Monitoring Skype Texts

Canadian researchers say they have found evidence of a huge surveillance system in China that scours Internet text messages sent through Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator... More >

Tests Shows Some Security Giants Not up to Mark

Not all of the major security vendors are up to the task, having failed the latest Virus Bulletin 100 test. The tests puts 100 pieces of malware up against several major security suites for Windows... More >

October 1, 2008

RogueSecurity Trojan Tops Malware Charts in September

More than 60 percent of all malware attacks in September came from the RogueSecurity Trojan and its variants, according to Fortinet.   vnunet.com reports that the W32/Inject.GZW!tr.bdr Trojan... More >

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