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Phishers are targeting Facebook users again in an effort to steal names and passwords. Computerworld reports that scammers are sending users phoney e-mail messages that appear to be from a friend di... More >
Microsoft has made changes in next week's public Windows 7 Release Candidate in an effort to thwart the spread of the Conficker worm. According to Computerworld , Microsoft has modified Auto... More >
Jason Milmont, creator of the Naguche worm, will not be getting any jail time. According to Computerworld , Milmont has been sentenced to five years of probation for creating a worm that in... More >
According to a report from MessageLabs, spam levels account for 85 percent of all e-mail , the highest level for more than a year. vnunet.com reports that the jump may be related to a sharp ... More >
ChannelWeb reports that Panda Software has introduced a free security offering that combines client software and cloud-based scanning to protect PCs from viruses, spyware, rootkits and other onlin... More >
A study by Forrester indicates that companies are not doing enough to secure open source, outsourced code and commercial applications. According to ComputerWeekly , while more than half of... More >
According to a study by Qualys, IT security is being overwhelmed by the speed at which exploits are released. ComputerWeekly reports that 80 percent of exploits are ready to go less than 10 ... More >
A recent study by the Computing Technology Industry Association shows that more companies are requiring IT security certification . According to InformationWeek , 32 percent of companies sai... More >
Adobe has admitted that a newly discovered vulnerability in Adobe Reader affects all currently supported shipping versions of the PDF reader for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms, reports CNET... More >
A spam e-mail purporting to be from former Customs and Border Protection Assistant Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski is making the rounds, reports kstp.com . The e-mail claims that the CBP h... More >
Just six days after it released an update to fix a dozen security bugs in Firefox, Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.10 to patch a "critical" security vulnerability that it introduced with the las... More >
In an effort to help victims recover from hacker attacks, McAfee has launched a Web site call Cybercrime Response Unit , which it bills as a kind of "online 911." According to InfoWorld , businesse... More >
According to research from Sophos, two-thirds of systems administrators are concerned that employees are offering up too much information on social networking sites , thereby threatening the securit... More >
vnunet.com reports that the European Commission is calling for the appointment of a security czar to organize an EU-wide cyber security strategy. Speaking at the EU ministerial conference o... More >
It seems spammers will latch onto anything. According to vnunet.com , spammers are using recent news about a swine flu outbreak in Mexico to promote online pharmacies. While some messages u... More >
The Cloud Security Alliance has released a white paper detailing 15 areas of concern about cloud-computing security , reports NetworkWorld . The point of the paper is to help customers come to agre... More >
Security researchers, including those from F-Secure, Trend Micro and SecureWorks, believe Conficker.E will self-destruct on May 5 , reports NetworkWorld . Researchers say Conficker.E never r... More >
McAfee has come out with a new line of Unified Threat Management Firewalls aimed at SMBs . The UTM Firewalls, previously known as SnapGear, are available in seven different models with featur... More >
President Barack Obama will be getting a souped-up, high-security BlackBerry for communication in and around the White House and while traveling. According to PCWorld , the BlackBerry 883... More >
A draft memo seems to indicate that Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to nominate National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to head a new Pentagon Cyber Command. According to T... More >
According to internetnews.com , a laptop containing the personal information of people receiving government assistance was stolen from the car of an employee of the Oklahoma Department of Human Ser... More >
HP has unveiled its first firewall/intrusion prevention appliance with the ProCurve 8212 and 5400 Series firewalls built on its switch platforms. According to Channel Insider , this is just the fi... More >
Conficker seems to have slowly started activity. According to Symantec researchers, the worm's authors have started installing a second virus , called Waledac, onto some infected computers, reports ... More >
Fraudsters are moving beyond computers and targeting phone systems for financial gain. InfoWorld reports that criminals are starting to hack into bank accounts and change the customer's cont... More >
According to InfoWorld , Bach Koa Internetwork Security, a Vietnamese security company, says it has found a new worm that thwarts Google's CAPTCHA system in order to register new dummy Gmail accou... More >
Steer clear of "magic bullet" offerings was the advice from a panel of network security experts at the RSA 2009 conference. According to vnunet.com , the panelists urged the use of multiple s... More >
According to Brian Truskowski, general manager of IBM's Internet Security Systems business, the human element is still the key weakness in any system, reports vnunet.com . Speaking at the RSA... More >
Google has released a new version of Chrome to patch a bug that affects Google's mainstream stable version of the browser. According to CNET News , version 1.0.154.59 fixes a cross-site scripting v... More >
According to a study commissioned by Intel, a lost or stolen notebook can cost a company nearly $50,000 to replace not only the hardware but also the contents. The Phoenix Business Journal reports t... More >
vnunet.com reports that Enisa, the European Union's security agency, is calling on the the European Commission to create a coherent pan-European strategy to enhance the security and resilience of t... More >
Melissa Hathaway, President Obama's acting senior director for cyberspace, says the White House should have a more direct role in coordinating national cyber security efforts, reports Computerworl... More >
According to a recent report from the National Defense University, concerns about cyberattacks should not keep the Defense Department from using social networking technologies , reports National De... More >
A gang of cybercriminals in the Ukraine has taken control of almost 2 million PCs globally, including machines inside UK and U.S. government departments, according to Finjan. BBC News report... More >
Mozilla's Firefox 3.0.9 fixes 12 security bugs , four of which are rated as "critical," reports Computerworld . The four critical bugs are divided between the Firefox browser engine and its JavaScr... More >
To combat a criminal threat that seems to be acting in a unified and highly evloved manner, the security industry needs to begin collaborating on an unprecedented level, says RSA President Art Covi... More >
During the RSA Conference, a group of top cryptography experts debated the security threat posed by cloud computing , reports vnunet.com . Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Mic... More >
National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander says the agency does not want sole responsibility for running U.S. cyber security, reports Wired . The debate over who should be ... More >
The Obama adminstration is looking to reorganize the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to create a new Pentagon command in an effort to coordinate the security of military computer netwo... More >
Sapyto, an open source tool that tests the security of SAP systems, has been upgraded to allow more thorough testing. According to InfoWorld , version 0.99 can now run Windows PCs. This lates... More >
A portable data-storage device containing employee information has disappeared from an undisclosed FairPoint Communications office, and the company is blaming the incident on a worker’s failure to ... More >
Cisco made several cloud-related security announcements at the RSA conference. According to CNET News , the new products include Cisco Security Cloud Services, Cisco IPS Sensor Software 7.0... More >
According to The Wall Street Journal , computer spies have accessed the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project . Current and former government officials say that intruders were able t... More >
The government is looking for a few good computer hackers. General Dynamics Information Technology has put out a help wanted ad on behalf of the Homeland Security Department for applicants w... More >
Microsoft has been on an education blitz during the RSA 2009 security conference about the security features of Windows 7 . CNET News reports that Windows 7 will have 29 percent fewer user a... More >
Symantec has picked up Web security firm Mi5 Networks, reports CNET News . The company plans to announce two new products as a result of the acquisition. Symantec Protection Suite Small Bus... More >
NEC is getting into security software with the introduction of a Web application firewall to the U.S, reports InfoWorld . Already sold in Japan, SiteShell blacklists traffic determined to b... More >
Microsoft's Project Quant seeks to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle. According to ZDNet , "The goal of this project is to provide a framework for evaluat... More >
According to SD Times , RSA has launched an online community to help developers build security into the software they create. The RSA Share Project will offer free application security tool... More >
The latest release of RSA's Data Loss Prevention Suite adds enhancements that save time and streamline processes for data security personnel. Help Net Security reports that the RSA DLP Suite moves... More >
Netgear has announced the first line of Unified Threat Management appliances aimed at small businesses, reports Help Net Security . The company boasts that the ProSecure UTM family maintain... More >
In an effort to help distinguish between humans and bots, Google is putting a new spin on CAPTCHA . According to InfoWorld , Google will ask people to find the top of a randomly rotated, but carefu... More >
Security firm SANS is warning about new Secure Shell attacks , reports vnunet.com . The "brute force" attacks attempt to guess usernames and passwords in an effort to compromise the server. ... More >
Hot on the heels of the Mikeyy worm attacks , another scam attack is targeting Twitter. According to vnunet.com , this latest attack uses messages like, "You'll like this one! Check out ww... More >
Security researcher Erez Metula has released an upgraded tool that can make it easier to place difficult-to-detect malicious software in Microsoft's .NET framework on Windows computers. Accord... More >
According to InformationWeek , Samsung has introduced what it is calling the first hardware-based self-encrypting solid-state drives . Samsung says the devices are more difficult to hack bec... More >
A new password management tool from Lenovo can help administrators better manage encrypted hard drives, according to vnunet.com . It is difficult to recover data from encryption systems whe... More >
A Trojan that had been bundled with pirated copies of Mac OS X is now being used to run a botnet, reports vnunet.com . According to eWEEK , the Trojan was built on the backs of pirated ver... More >
Panda Labs' Quarterly Report found that spyware levels rose by about 10 percent in the first three months of 2009. Spyware infections accounted for 13.15 percent of all malware infections du... More >
Using the human ear as a biometric system? That's what researchers at the UK's University of Southampton are working on thanks to a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. ... More >
Microsoft has a number of announcements as part of its strategy to provide "Business Ready Security." In an effort to keep malware and spam out of e-mail in-boxes, Microsoft is offering its fi... More >
As part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update , Oracle has delivered 43 security patches for a number of applications, including its flagship database, Oracle Application Server and E-Business Su... More >
According to data from the Conficker Working Group, Conficker is now the largest "botnet" of hacked computers on the planet, beating out Storm . Researchers suspect that Conficker has infect... More >
Spam is contributing to global warming, says a report by security vendor McAfee. InfoWorld reports that the estimated 62 trillion spam e-mail that is sent each year eats up 33 billion kilowat... More >
Chinese national Yan Zhu has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly stealing proprietary software code owned by his U.S. employer and giving it to a Chinese government agency, reports InformationW... More >
According to a recent report from Verizon Business, over 280 million records were compromised in 2008 , reports vnunet.com . The report shows that most of the breaches were due to external t... More >
Eight security bulletins, covering 23 vulnerabilities, were released in Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday . SC Magazine reports that the highest profile fix is a patch for a zero-day Excel fl... More >
Twitter has been hit by a fourth worm attack , reports Computerworld . This newest attack originated from a just-registered account labeled "cleaningUpMikey." The teenage creator of StalkDai... More >
Check Point is now a leading security appliance maker thanks to the completion of its acquisition of Nokia's security appliance business, reports TMCnet.com . According to vnunet.com , the ... More >
The Register reports that Trend Micro has updated its flagship scanning software , OfficeScan, to allow IT managers the option of moving part of the virus and malware signature database to either a... More >
According to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report , hackers are increasingly taking advantage of weaknesses in Web applications and browser plug-ins. In addition, there has been a signi... More >
According to a survey by Robert Half Technology, seven out of 10 CIOs said their companies will invest in information technology initiatives in the next 12 months, with information security topping ... More >
EMC's RSA division has upgraded its data loss prevention suite, reports Network World . Data-Loss Prevention 7.0 now offers over 20 policy templates for recognizing personal identifiable inf... More >
Internetnews.com blogger Sean Michael Kerner reports that the new variant of Conficker, aka Kido, could be sending out as many as 80,000 spam messages in a 24-hour period. Aleks Gostev, hea... More >
The Associated Press reports that Conficker has infected more than 700 campus computers at the University of Utah . Computers at the hospitals, medical school, and colleges of nursing, pharmacy and... More >
Over the weekend, Twitter was hit by a series of worms attacks . According to Telegraph.co.uk , the worm spam messages promoted another Web site, StalkDaily.com. The first attack forced admi... More >
The names and Social Security numbers of 3,400 teachers and employees of Irving Independent School District have been used to make thousands of dollars in purchases, reports The Dallas Morning New... More >
Two new analysts reports show that many companies may still be lagging in protecting against insider threats . According to Dark Reading , Forrester reports that while 88 percent of responde... More >
Both Fortify Software and Cenzic have released new versions of on-demand tools to help enterprises identify vulnerabilities and ensure application security. internetnews.com reports that Fo... More >
Buried in news about Microsoft's next Patch Tuesday is word of Oracle's quarterly software fixes, which happen to fall on Patch Tuesday. InfoWorld reports that Oracle will offer 43 securit... More >
A recent report by F-Secure charts the first ever SMS virus , reports vnunet.com . Although mostly confined to China, F-Secure considers the SymbOS/Yxe worm to be a significant threat that will lik... More >
Microsoft will release eight security patches in this month's Patch Tuesday scheduled for April 14, reports InformationWeek . The security bulletin doesn't offer many details except that ... More >
China has vehemently denies that it has any involvement in hacking into the U.S. electrical grid, reports DailyTech . Earlier this week, national security officials said that cyber spies fr... More >
Canada says it developing a new cyber security strategy . According to canada.com , Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan says that since the U.S. and Canada share many key computer networks, it's i... More >
According to ChannelWeb , Google has introduced its Secure Data Connector for connecting Google Apps with corporate data stored behind a company's firewall. Now users of Google Apps can access dat... More >
Conficker has sprung to life. PCWorld reports that the worm has begun contacting infected computers via a binary file over peer-to-peer. The binary randomly contacts one of five Web sites ... More >
Current and former national security officials say that cyberspies from Russia and China have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software that could disrupt the system, according t... More >
U.S. Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, says the Pentagon has spent $100 million averting and cleaning up after online attacks in the past six months, reports vnunet... More >
According to Microsoft's latest security report, rogue "security" software is on the rise. PCWorld reports the Security Intelligence Report shows that during the last six months of 2008, two... More >
Trend Micro is boosting its Software as a Service strategy with an array of products aimed at reaching a wider range of business customers. According to NetworkWorld , Trend Micro's WorryFre... More >
You may want to think twice before buying identity theft protection services, some consumer groups caution. In a recent report titled “To Catch a Thief: Are Identity Theft Services Worth the C... More >
According to internetnews.com blogger Sean Michael Kerner, there is another worm out there exploiting the same flaw as Conficker. A worm called Neeris also is taking advantage of a flaw Microsoft... More >
The Washington Post reports that last week Web site host and domain name registrar Register.com was the victim of a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. On Wednesday, the ... More >
A newly disclosed internal report by the Interior Department's former inspector general, Earl A. Devaney, shows that vulnerabilities in the department's computer network remained even after a federal... More >
Two officials familiar with the 60-day, government-wide review of cyber security programs say that the laws and policies governing telecommunications have not kept up with technology in the sector.... More >
An unpatched bug in PowerPoint is being exploited by hackers, Microsoft has warned. Security advisory 969136 says Microsoft will either add a fix in the regular monthly release or create an out-of-... More >
The Conficker worm, though programmed to receive instructions on April 1 , appears not to have unleashed any chaos, as some had expected. In fact, it is because this particular worm was so widely co... More >
According to Newsvine.com , the Mississippi House and Senate have passed a bill that would increase fines in order to raise money for the cybercrime center in the Attorney General's office. If Gov... More >
iPhone users concerned about identity theft and phishing attacks can check out VeriSign's VIP Access for Mobile application . According to internetnews.com , the security app offers two-fact... More >
According to Symantec's March 2009 MessageLabs Report, malicious Web sites have jumped 197 percent over the last month at a rate of 2,797 new sites every day. While attacks continue to follo... More >
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Symantec has contacted 200 U.S. customers and nine state Attorneys General concerning the customers' credit card numbers that may have been jeopardized aft... More >
It's April 1, and all is relatively quite with Conficker ... so far. Although security researchers have been downplaying the hype over Conficker, The New York Times reports that researcher... More >
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