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Ex- CEO Charged in Denial of Service Attack

"Well that's one way to kill your business. The former CEO of Web 2.0 service company YouSendIt was indicted by a federal grand jury this week with four counts of mail fraud." (Ex- CEO Charged in Denial of Service Attack - Business Center - PC World) ›
CyberWAR

Cyberattacks traced to NKorea

"The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday. The IP address — the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number — that triggered the Web attacks was traced back to North Korea's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the chief of South Kor ›
CyberSECURITY

NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity Data Center

"The National Security Agency, whose job it is to protect national security systems, will soon break ground on a data center in Utah that's budgeted to cost $1.5 billion. The NSA is building the facility to provide intelligence and warnings related to cybersecurity threats, cybersecurity support to defense and civilian agency networks, and technical assista ›
CyberSECURITY

Twitter users warned about new phishing attack

"Twitter warned on Wednesday about a new phishing attack in which direct messages to users link to a fake log-in page that steals passwords. 'We've seen a few phishing attempts today; if you've received a strange (direct message), and it takes you to a Twitter log-in page, don't do it!' the Twitter spam warning says. " (Twitter users warned about new phish ›
CyberATTACK

Cybercrooks Trick Gawker Into Serving Malware-Laced Ad

"Remember when the global economic crisis was supposed to drive legions of desperate, unemployed computer programmers into cybercrime? It turns out the real threat comes from unemployed advertising agents. Scammers posing as the well-known ad agency Spark-SMG tricked Gawker Media into running a fake Suzuki ad last week that served malicious code, according ›
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Swiss ministry says it was victim of cyber attack

"The Swiss Foreign Ministry says it was the victim of a 'professional' cyber attack aimed at obtaining information from its computer network. Spokesman Georg Farago says the ministry cut the connection between its network and the Internet after the attack was discovered on Thursday. " (Swiss ministry says it was victim of cyber attack - Security- msnbc.com ›
CyberSECURITY

Nigeria cracks down on cyber crime, busts 18 syndicates

"Nigeria's anti-corruption police said on Friday that it had shut down some 800 scam websites and busted 18 syndicates of email fraudsters in a drive to curb cyber-crime which the country is notorious for. As many as 419 scammers were involved. 'Over 800 fraudulent e-mail addresses have been identified and shut down under 'operation eagle claw' launched las ›
CyberSECURITY

Phishing Gang Dominates Online Devilment

"A single group of attackers accounted for a quarter of all phishing in the first half of this year, according to a new study." (Phishing Gang Dominates Online Devilment - PC World) ›
CyberSECURITY

Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices

"Researchers scanning the internet for vulnerable embedded devices have found nearly 21,000 routers, webcams and VoIP products open to remote attack. Their administrative interfaces are viewable from anywhere on the internet and their owners have failed to change the manufacturer’s default password. Linksys routers had the highest percent of vulnerable de ›
CyberWAR

Report: China building cyberwarfare capabilities

"China is building its cyberwarfare capabilities and appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect U.S. intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign, according to an independent report. Released Thursday by a congressional advisory panel, the study found cases suggesting that China's elite hacker community has ›
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ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach

"Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay to compensate potential victims of identity theft for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday." (ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach) ›
CyberSECURITY

Cybersecurity: Is the U.S. Government doing enough?

"Earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano declared October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. To be honest, I have not heard of Awareness Month before, even though it’s been around for six years. The DHS blog post mentioned this year’s theme as being focused on having everyone, not just industry and gover ›
CyberSECURITY

Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away

"If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim. That's because more cyberthieves are targeting increasingly popular social networking sites that provide a gold mine of personal information, according to the FBI. Since 2006, nearly 3,200 account hijacking cases have been reported to the Internet Crime Compla ›