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Carefully crafted security attacks confirm the development of a malicious economy
F-Secure's Data Security Wrap-up for the first six months of 2007 looks at the top security threats witnessed by the anti-virus provider from January to June of this year. During this period, the F-Secure Lab saw a steady flow of reports on a vast variety of data security threats. The underlying trend to note was the spread of malicious activ...
FBI investigates cyber-criminals
The FBI has launched a series of arrests and investigations against so-called 'botherders' – alleged of committing computer fraud and abuse in violation of Title 18 USC 1030. The Department of Justice and FBI have announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber s...
Beware of slow and quick viruses
When the Internet had only barely begun, the only way of spreading viruses was via floppy disks. This is a very slow means of propagation, particularly in comparison to the speed at which viruses spread nowadays. To get an idea, the infamous ‘Friday 13’ virus (whose name originates from the day in which it deleted all .exe files on computers) took ...
Hackers download personal details of University of Virginia faculty members
Around 6,000 University of Virginia faculty members have been warned that their personal details - including their Social Security numbers and dates of birth - have been downloaded by hackers. According to University officials, on 54 separate days between May 20, 2005 and April 19, 2007, hackers tapped into the records of 5,735 faculty members. ...
Hackers steal $450,000 from Carson City
Hackers have broken into the Carson City general fund bank account in California and stolen $450,000. Investigators believe the hackers obtained the Carson City account log-in details after successfully uploading spyware to a city-owned computer. Apparently, the Treasurer was monitored by a keylogger, which allowed the hackers to steal the bank...
StealthWatch protects U.S. Army against zero-day attacks and internal misuse
Lancope, Inc. has announced today that StealthWatch has been approved for the U.S. Army Information Assurance Approved Products List (AIAAPL). Unifying flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring, StealthWatch protects critical infrastructures and confidential governmental records against zero-day attacks, internal misuse and u...
Hackers have created a new class of highly evasive attacks
Finjan's new Web Security Trends Report focuses on a new genre of highly sophisticated and evasive attacks designed to potentially bypass signature-based and database-reliant security technology. The report also describes the proliferation of affiliation networks based on a “hosted model” for malicious code, which utilize off-the-shelf malicious...
Germany gets tough on computer crime
The German Parliament has ruled that many more categories of hacking are an illegal act and should be punishable like any other crime. It is now an offense to create, sell, distribute or even acquire so called Hacker Tools in order to obtain illegal access to protected data. Another new offense is the unauthorized access of secured data by means th...
AKH Vienna General Hospital Deploys Non-intrusive StealthWatch for End-to-End Network Visibility
With more than 2,200 beds and 9,000 staff members, AKH Vienna General is the largest hospital in Austria and one of the largest in Europe. The 2,200-bed institution opened officially in 1994. Lancope, Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch™ System, has announced that AKH Vienna General Hospital has deployed the StealthWatch System, which levera...
Central database on email phishing scams operational in July 2007
The Anti-Phishing Group (APWG) has announced that a central database - The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) - that allows organisations around the world to share information about new email phishing scams will be fully operational by July 2007. Mike Dodson, technical director at Mirapoint, made the following comments: "Ph...
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