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Trusteer is warning of a new Trojan called "W32.Silon" that is targeting online banks and their customers. According to internetnews.com , the Trojan uses a "two-pronged payload" to steal l... More >
All Web sites that use the Checkout by Amazon payment service will now use a new PayPhrase authentication platform . Buyers will be able to retain a single, easy-to-remember login credential, report... More >
CalOptima has traced its missing unencrypted CDs to a secure postal facility in Atlanta, reports Computerworld . As we reported earlier this week, the discs were lost during shipping . The... More >
Facebook won its case against spammer Sanford Wallace this week, says TG Daily . The judge awarded the company $711.2 million in damages, which Wallace does not have. Sam O'Rourke of Faceboo... More >
Researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego have identified a security issue that would allow attackers to search for, locate and attack specific targets in Amazon's Elastic C... More >
A study sponsored by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance revealed that even though most small businesses rely on the Internet for a portion of their business, 86 percent of those surv... More >
Facebook users are being hit by two cyber attacks. As many as three-quarters of a million users have been receiving fake password reset messages bearing subject lines such as "Facebook Passwor... More >
PacketFocus CEO Joshua Perrymon sent out a bogus Bill Gates LinkedIn invitation to various smartphone users. His spear-phishing test got through security checks with every try on all smartphones he... More >
Another phishing attack is targeting Twitter users, reports Computerworld . This is just the latest in a series of attacks that have plagued the social networking site over the past year. ... More >
According to a report from McAfee, midsize companies across the world have seen an increase in cyber attacks and at the same they're spending less money on security, reports CNET News . The... More >
SAP and Nokia have partnered with a German-based supplier of security technologies to form a company that will let businesses use smartphones to track products that are at risk of counterfeit and pi... More >
According to V3.co.uk , Lumension Security has launched a new antivirus offering that will provide signature-based and behavioral detection methods to block all kinds of malware. Lumension AntiVir... More >
In an effort to secure enterprise data and address regulatory requirements surrounding customer data, Brocade and Thales have formed a partnership to integrate the Thales Encryption Manager for Sto... More >
Computerworld reports that U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker has rejected a proposed settlement by TD Ameritrade Inc. stemming from a 2007 breach that exposed more than 6 million customer ... More >
According to Computerworld , Firefox version 3.5.4 patches 16 vulnerabilities , 11 of them critical. The 11 critical bugs are found in Firefox 3.5 in several components, including Web worker... More >
As is usually the case around holidays, security experts are warning users to be on the lookout for unsolicited e-mail messages in the days leading up to Halloween, reports V3.co.uk . Sunbe... More >
In a $183 million deal , Cisco has purchased Web security company ScanSafe, reports Forbes . With the Web security market expected to grow to $2.3 billion by 2012, Cisco is looking to ScanSa... More >
Trend Micro boasts that its Smart Protection Network, which combines cloud-based reputation technology with behavioral analysis techniques, blocks an average of more than 4 billion threats a day , a... More >
Personal data on 68,000 members of CalOptima is missing after CDs containing unencrypted data were lost during shipping, says CSO Online . A claims-scanning vendor shipped the CDs to CalOpt... More >
A recently uncovered vulnerability in a Time Warner cable modem and Wi-Fi router could put 65,000 customers at risk for a remote hack, reports Wired . The flaw is in Time Warner’s SMC8014 series c... More >
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations in conjunction with the UK's Serious and Organized Crime Agency has developed a plan to break up cyber crime operations , says SecurityFocus . Andy Auld, h... More >
A sophisticated attack on The Guardian's Jobs Web pages put half a million Web users at risk , reports v3.co.uk . The UK newspaper says 500,000 of the its 10.4 million users could have had t... More >
According to Click Forensics, 42.6 percent of fraudulent clicks came from botnet-infected computers, the highest rate in four years, reports Computerworld . Botnets accounted for 27.5 percent of b... More >
In an effort to assure customers about the security of cloud services , Microsoft wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products ISO certified, reports Computerworld . ... More >
A report commissioned by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission comes to an unsurprising conclusion: It is likely that China is spying on U.S. companies and government. It says: China... More >
In an effort to crack down on online scammers, Nigerian officials have launched a new initiative called " Project Eagle Claw ," which has already resulted in 18 arrests and the closure of 800 Web sit... More >
According to a study by Panda Security, the automotive industry is targeted with more spam and malware-laden e-mails than any other sector, reports internetnews.com . The point of the study? We we... More >
As expected , on Tuesday Oracle issued a critical security patch to address 36 bug across a number of its products. InformationWeek reports that three of the fixes came with the highest vuln... More >
TippingPoint and Qualys are working together to offer companies a comprehensive set of network security tools . According to V3.co.uk , TippingPoint's Intrusion Prevention System will be int... More >
According to eWEEK , security testing company Rapid7 has acquired Metasploit to increase its penetration-testing services. Metasploit's open source penetration-testing framework will provid... More >
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined ChoicePoint $275,000 for a data breach that exposed personal information of 13,750 people last year, reports CNET News . The FTC says ChoicePoint turned... More >
Fortinet is bragging that it has the f astest firewall and virtual private network system on the market, reports V3.co.uk . According to the company, the FortiGate-1240B has 40Gbit/s firewall and ... More >
According to V3.co.uk , IBM and Emulex have joined forces to provide a host-based encryption solution for data held and created outside the server. Emulex boasts that the Emulex Secure tool will o... More >
According to a survey released by Ponemon Institute, more than half of U.S. hospitals do not take appropriate security steps to protect patient privacy , says SC Magazine . Said Mike Spinny,... More >
A new Web site designed to provide companies that have suffered a data breach with a direct contact for relevant expert help is the result of a collaboration between law firm Field Fisher Waterhous... More >
McAfee is offering a new e-mail security strategy to offer the broadest range of delivery options possible, according to V3.co.uk . The model consists of software-as-a-service, on-premise applicati... More >
To help enterprises improve their security operations and better manage risk and compliance, RSA has announced new consulting and advisory services , according to V3.co.uk . The RSA Consulti... More >
DeepNines Technologies' new desktop security agent called iTrust Agent also works to protect remote and mobile workers , says CIO.com . The iTrust Agent works on Windows or Macs by directing... More >
The saga concerning the extradition of Gary McKinnon continues. Computerworld reports that following new medical evidence, UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson will reconsider McKinnon's extradition . I... More >
Roger Thompson, chief research officer of AVG, was researching sites that host malicious content when he found that a Russian-based site was receiving tons of referrals from a specific Facebook app ... More >
The Gumblar botnet is beginning to mobilize , warns researchers. ScanSafe says that a number of pages connected to Gumblar attacks in May have begun serving malware to visitors, reports V3.co.uk . &... More >
According to a new Symantec report on cyber crime, millions of U.S. computers may be loaded with bogus security software that their owners have paid for, but which only serves to make their machine... More >
PayChoice has been breached for a second time this month. According to Computerworld , the company had to take its Online Employer site offline as a result of a security breach. The breac... More >
On Tuesday, Oracle will release its quarterly Critical Patch Update, which address 38 security vulnerabilities across hundreds of Oracle products, reports PCWorld . There will be 16 bug fi... More >
SonicWall announced updates to its e-mail security and network appliances , says eWEEK . The latest versions of SonicOS 5.5 for Unified Threat Management (UTM), Global Management System 6.0, and E-... More >
According to an Associated Press article on Newsvine.com, a former Ford Motor Co. employee has been charged with stealing trade secrets before leaving for a new job in China. Xiang Dong Yu... More >
Microsoft quietly pushed its .NET Framework Assistant add-on into Firefox last February, but has since admitted that the add-on leaves the browser open to attack , and recommends that Firefox users ... More >
A stolen laptop belonging to an employee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association contained the business and personal information of about 800,000 doctors, reports InformationWeek . Th... More >
According to Websense, a major attack has been launched against Microsoft's Outlook Web Access service , reports V3.co.uk. Around 30,000 e-mails are being sent a day that urge users to visit a Web... More >
The Associated Press reports that the National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $2.7 million grant to a consortium of technology centers and community colleges in eight states that is ... More >
According to The Washington Post , a misplaced flash drive put the personal information of 103,000 former adult education students in Virginia at risk. However, officials do not believe the inform... More >
DDoS attacks may have cost thousands of dollars a few years ago, but not anymore, say researchers. With hackers becoming better at creating botnets, criminals are now able to launch attacks at barga... More >
One way companies can cut costs and still provide defense against cyber threats is to use security software-as-a-service solutions , says Dark Reading . More and more software vendors are offering ... More >
Businesses of all sizes can now keep their networks and devices secure thanks to two managed services from AT&T . According to InformationWeek , the security event and threat analysis se... More >
According to V3.co.uk , researchers at MessageLabs are warning of a huge surge in incidents of the Bredolab Trojan , which could allow hackers to hijack an organization's PCs. The Trojan is ... More >
According to Computerworld , Kathleen Hanni, a passenger-rights advocate and executive director of Flyersrights.org, is suing Delta Airlines for allegedly hacking her e-mail account . Hanni alleges... More >
Adobe has issued a whopping security update that addresses 29 vulnerabilities in its PDF viewing and editing applications, reports Computerworld . Thirteen of the 29 bugs were tagged with t... More >
Sophisticated cyber attacks have been up in the past few months, which shows that hackers are focusing on new ways to steal data, says PCWorld . The latest attacks include a new form of spea... More >
In an effort to get help from users in fighting spam, Twitter has added a "Report as spam" feature , according to CNET News . Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profil... More >
Russia is suspected of being behind the unsuccessful attack on Polish government systems last month, reports The Register . The attack seemed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak ... More >
Michigan's Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids pulled its Web site in response to a computer virus risk , reports The Register . The unspecified malware also infected the airport's... More >
With the use of Macs growing in the enterprise and at government agencies, many fear the platform will become a target for viruses, spyware, and other malware. To alleviate such fears, McAfee has de... More >
Barracuda Networks has acquired Purewire, a company that offers cloud-based security services, in an effort to boost its position in the cloud security market , says VentureBeat . Barracuda ... More >
InformationWeek reports that Google has has enabled an experimental feature in its Webmaster Tools to help owners of compromised Web sites find and remove hidden malware . The tool is available to ... More >
Trend Micro has added a new threat-management service that can boost protection against attacks that may have been missed by existing systems, reports V3.co.uk . Trend Micro Threat Management Servi... More >
According to PCWorld , AVG has added a new feature called LinkScanner that scans shortened URLs. LinkScanner scans pages in real time, blocking pages that lead users into a malicious software atta... More >
BBC News reports that some users of Apple's new operating system Snow Leopard are losing massive amounts of data when logging into their machines under a guest account. Users who had a guest acc... More >
In an effort to safeguard the personal data of students, the University of California at Berkeley is using a specialized data-masking technique that effectively can hide data in plain sight by mixi... More >
The Washington Post reports that Comcast is rolling out a pilot program that uses browser alerts to notify users when their PCs appear to be infected with malicious software. The trial in ... More >
Symantec's October State of Spam report declares that 86 percent of all e-mail is made up of spam messages, says PCWorld . Of that spam, 4.5 percent contains malware. Symantec also reports t... More >
InformationWeek reports that Google has just fixed a flaw in its Google Pack software suite that would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. The flaw affects the PC version of Google Pa... More >
According to Computerworld , the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team (oCERT) has disclosed two DoS vulnerabilities in Google's Android 1.5 mobile phone platform . One of the vulnera... More >
Over the weekend, T-Mobile Sidekick users lost their personal data due to a technical glitch by Microsoft subsidiary Danger, reports PCWorld . While not all Sidekick owners were affected, thousand... More >
Kaspersky Lab says it has seen a mass mailing of spam containing a link to a video advertisement on YouTube . According to ReadWriteWeb , in the past spammers have sent links claiming to be YouTube... More >
According to The New York Times , Craigslist has filed four lawsuits in the northern district of California against spammers. The company claims that Red Trumpet, a San Francisco company th... More >
Verizon is partnering with McAfee to provide help businesses manage their security with integrated security products, says FierceTelecom . Under the deal, Verizon customers will be able to use to M... More >
According to Computerworld , Adobe has admitted that hackers are actively exploiting a bug in Reader PDF viewer and the Acrobat PDF maker. This would make the fourth time this year that hackers we... More >
According to a survey by IDC, only 15 percent of companies believed they could lose data to outside hacker, while three times as many thought a breach by employees would be the most likely cause of ... More >
Microsoft is delaying the release of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 until mid-2010, says CSO Online . The anti-malware software was expected to be released in early 2010, but Microsoft has dec... More >
The UK's High Court has ruled that British hacker Gary McKinnon cannot appeal his extradition to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to PCWorld . McKinnon's attorney, Karen Todner, says they may tak... More >
Microsoft will be releasing the biggest Patch Tuesday ever on Oct. 13, reports Computerworld . This month's release will feature 13 updates, eight of which are pegged as "critical" and five... More >
Scammers are starting to make use of the leaked Hotmail passwords . According to Patrik Runald, senior manager of Websense's security research team, there has been a 30 to 40 percent increas... More >
Google has been losing revenue thanks to the "Bahama botnet," a collection of thousands of compromised computers that has been scamming online advertisers, reports InformationWeek . The botnet uses... More >
A survey performed by nCircle on both technical and nontechnical users shows that of those surveyed, only 41 percent regularly checked to make sure they are using an SSL-secured session when enteri... More >
Robots, those popular consumer devices, could be a security risk, according to research at the University of Washington. Computerworld reports that " security is pretty much an afterthought in the... More >
According to its own press release, the Rand Corp. released a study that concludes that the United States needs to focus on defending critical civilian and military computer networks from cyber at... More >
In a case called Operation Phish Phry, the FBI has taken 100 suspects into custody on charges of conducting a massive phishing scam. According to The New York Times , 53 of the arrests occurred i... More >
V3.co.uk reports that McAfee says it has added 14 companies to its Security Innovation Alliance program , including storage giant Hitachi, rights management vendor Liquid Machines and identity mana... More >
Following the hacking of thousands of Hotmail passwords , Microsoft has blocked all affected e-mail addresses , reports InformationWeek . According to Microsoft officials: As a result of our inves... More >
According to V3.co.uk , the recent hack of Hotmail accounts didn't take much effort. Security firm Acunetix analyzed the accounts that were attacked, and most used simple passwords -- the most c... More >
According to PC Magazine , Google's Gmail was hit by a phishing attack that compromised up to 30,000 names and passwords. This information comes the same week that Microsoft's Hotmail accounts we... More >
Computerworld reports that a sophisticated Trojan horse known as URLzone has a new trick up its sleeve: Lying to investigators about where the money is going. The Trojan is able to identify... More >
Until the American National Standards Institute sets the industry standards for credit card encryption, Visa has stepped in and released its own document citing best practices for merchants to adopt... More >
Researchers at Auburn University have developed host-based security software that blocks DDoS attacks without overloading the memory and CPU of the host machines, reports Computerworld . Identity-... More >
According to PCMag.com , the new AVG 9.0 suite boasts "significant enhancements in speed and levels of protection." CNET News reports that the company claims scan times that are "up to 50... More >
With the goal of providing enterprise users with a single identity for accessing applications over the Internet, Oracle has rolled out its Enterprise Single Sign-on Anywhere service, reports V3.co... More >
According to Computerworld , more than 10,000 Hotmail user names and passwords were leaked by an anonymous user on pastebin.com . Domains of @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com were affected. Wh... More >
According to FederalNewsRadio , President Barack Obama has named October National Cyber Security Awareness Month . The goal is to raise public awareness of the need for cyber security both at work ... More >
It's been awhile since we've heard anything about Conficker , but it's still around. According to The Register , the worm infected communal PCs used by students at Oxford Brookes University last ... More >
Although the numbers had leveled off for two years, virus-infused spam messages have spiked once again, says SCMagazine . Data collected by Postini based on Google's e-mail and archiving se... More >
According to Computerworld , Mozilla has added "Content Security Policy" technology to Firefox in an effort to block most Web-based attacks. The technology passes the baton to site and application... More >
According to V3.co.uk , the FBI is warning about the increasing number of attacks using Facebook to scam users out of money by pretending to be a friend in need of money after a robbery. So far, t... More >
Online payroll service PayChoice has been hacked and information used to lure payees to download a plug-in to continue access to its onlineemployer.com service, reports Computerworld . The plug-in... More >
Computerworld reports that pharmacy benefits management company Express Scripts has notified about 700,000 members that their information may have been breached by computer extortionists last year... More >
According to PCWorld , Research in Motion has released a BlackBerry patch that addresses a display flaw that could help phishers conduct an attack. ZDNet blogger Ryan Naraine notes that al... More >
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