cybersecurity

Barack Obama's Site Leading to Trojan

Change has finally arrived in the United States of America, marking the dawn of a new era. The US Presidential campaign has shown the world how governments can leverage Web 2.0 to better understand and garner support from their citizens. However, this historically significant time is yet another opportunity to spread more malicious code, just a typical occasion for the malicious hackers behind the fake video codec social-engineering scams. [WebSense] ›
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Monster.com Reports Another Breach Of Its User Database

Monster.com, the popular online job-hunting site, is reporting another major breach of its user database -- the third time it has disclosed such a breach in the past two years. In a warning issued to users on Friday, Monster.com stated that its "database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and p ›
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Heartland hacker identified

The cybercriminal responsible for the Heartland Payment Systems breach has been identified by the Secret Service with the hacker's location "pinpointed" outside of North America. According to the trade publication Storefront Backtalk, the investigation has been turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice. On Friday, a spokesman for the company said the malware attack ca ›
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Tokyo police department network shutdown

According to Worldwide Net, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department network was shutdown from January 22-24 due to a computer virus. Department officials thought the possibility of a hacker attack were minimal and that the infection was more than likely introduced by a thumb drive. [Dark Visitor] ›
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Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack, Millions of Websites Potentially Unreachable

Network Solutions is having problems with "all" its name servers, according to their tech support and a recent post on North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) mailing list indicates that it has been under very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS attack for the last 48 hour period. As a result, domain names hosted with ›
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Obama pledges better cybersecurity, top advisor

Two days into his administration, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement outlining his homeland security policy, including the creation of a top advisor in the White House to set cybersecurity policy. In the homeland security document, published on Thursday, the administration pledged to create a top cybersecurity position, harden the nation's infra ›
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Chinese hackers eye $400 million market

In 2007, the domestic market for Chinese virtual goods was estimated at $900 million and 45% of that directed at Tencent online products, the owner of QQ. A QQ coin, which has been described as a possible dual-currency for the number of items it can purchase outside of QQ, is priced at 1 yuan (15 cents). In 2007, the going rate for selling a QQ coin was at a discount rat ›
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Hacker deleted 10,475 public servants

A MAN has admitted hacking into the Northern Territory Government's computer system causing $1m of damage. Computer engineer David Anthony McIntosh, 28, pleaded guilty in the NT Supreme Court in Darwin today to 12 counts of unlawfully accessing and modifying data on May 8 last year. His cyber-sabotage crashed multiple government servers, including those of the Health Dep ›
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DoD Foots the Bill for Web-Based Security Training

Our tax dollars at work...or is it tax dollars from our work? Regardless, you can save budgetary resources by outsourcing security training to our government. A curriculum of free web based training from the Department of Defense (DoD) concentrates on Information assurance (IA), although covers a wide range of security topics. As security professionals, imp ›
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Worm Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide

A new digital plague has hit the Internet, infecting millions of personal and business computers in what seems to be the first step of a multistage attack. The world’s leading computer security experts do not yet know who programmed the infection, or what the next stage will be. In recent weeks a worm, a malicious software program, has swept through corpo ›
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The Kyrgyzstan Cyber Attack That No One Is Talking About

dispositions of an enemy are ascertained by spies, and spies alone - Mei Yao-ch`en The Kyrgyzstan Cyber Attack That No One Is Talking About with one comment A colleague alerted me a couple of days ago to a massive DDOS attack against Kyrgyzstan ISPs www.ns.kg and www.domain.kg which essentially shut them down on January 18, 2009. There are only 4 ISP provi ›
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Pirated iWork '09 installer may contain trojan horse

When installing an infected pirated copy of iWork ‘09, an extra iWorkServices package is installed; this installation begins as soon as the user launches the iWork ‘09 installer. This package is installed as a system-wide startup item, where it has read-write permissions as root. In other words, this code can do anything to any part of the system, with f ›
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Globe Web site hit by cyber attack

Blogs on the Web site of The Joplin Globe fell prey Tuesday to hackers opposed to U.S. and Israeli policy in Gaza. The blogs remained off-line Wednesday, but Dave Woods, the Globe’s new-media editor, said files were being restored, and that the blogs should be up and running on the Web site by the weekend. John Cruzan, the Globe’s new-media manager, said he noticed a ›