It’s those other, gullible email users, which are a surprisingly large percentage of consumers, according to new survey data by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, an anti-spam trade organization. The survey of 800 people in the U.S. and Canada found that one out of six said they have responded to a message they suspected was [...]
The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession, is enabling the companies to attract top young talent that once would have gone to Silicon Valley. Nearly all of the largest military firms – including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon – have major computer-related contracts with the military and intelligence [...]
The coordinated attacks that swamped Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea in the past several days may be a harbinger of things to come, cybersecurity experts say. Starting Sunday, sites ranging from The Washington Post to the U.S. State Department have gone offline for periods of time since a string of computers controlled [...]
A botnet comprised of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against U.S. government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the U.S. and South Korea. The attack started Saturday, and security experts have credited it with knocking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Web site offline for parts of Monday and [...]
Since Obama’s landmark speech on cybersecurity in May, his administration hasn’t revealed much about its long-percolating plans to shore up the government’s defenses against hackers and cyberspies. But privacy advocates monitoring the initiative are already raising concerns about what they know and what they don’t: the details that have trickled out–including the involvement of the [...]
Britain’s defence secretary is ordering the first major review of Britain’s armed forces in 11 years. Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth was telling lawmakers on Tuesday that the review is necessary to address the threats posed by advancements in technology, rouge or failed states and international terrorists. (AP)
“A browse-and-get-owned attack vector exists,” acknowledged Microsoft security engineer Chengyun Chu on the company’s Security Research & Defense blog. “A user needs to be lured to navigate to a malicious Web site or a compromised legitimate Web site to be affected. No further user interaction is needed.” (Information Week)
Goldman Sachs is a master at gauging risk. It managed to get out of toxic mortgages before they unraveled and shorted them on the way down. We detailed in a lengthy case study the approach to managing risk and the systems and processes behind Goldman. The one risk Goldman didn’t count on: Worker espionage. (ZDNet)
Cybercriminals are rapidly using Twitter— the popular Web-messaging service — to direct users to websites that sell porn and fake drugs and trigger promotions for fake anti-virus subscriptions. “We’re starting to see a groundswell of attacks,” says Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer at Websense, an Internet security firm. “Spam is usually the first bad thing [...]
Sholar said the unauthorized transfers appear to have been driven by “some kind computer virus.” Security Fix has been communicating with a cyber crime investigator who is familiar with the case. What follows is a description of the malicious software used, a blow-by-blow account of how the attackers worked the heist, as well interviews with [...]
