“A majority of IT security professionals believe that outsourcing technology jobs to offshore locations has a negative impact on network security, according to a survey released Tuesday. In the survey of 350 IT managers and network administrators concerned with computer and network security at their organizations, 69 percent of respondents said they believe outsourcing negatively [...]
“Gov. Rick Perry was ‘Talkin’ Texas’ online Tuesday, but his campaign said countless Texans were prevented from logging on because the highly touted event was sabotaged by an onslaught of fake users. Although some 22,000 people were able to log on, the focus on those who could not — and why — eclipsed Perry’s message, [...]
“New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim’s dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report. The sophisticated hack uses a Trojan horse program installed on the victim’s machine that alters html coding before it’s [...]
“‘Like most large organizations, we have seen e-mail scams and phishing attacks that cite the U.S. Census Bureau,’ agency spokesman Neil Tillman wrote in an e-mail. The Census Bureau stresses that it will not request personal information from you via e-mail, such as PIN codes, passwords, Social Security numbers, credit-card numbers or other financial account [...]
“Last week Canadian security vendor Defence Intelligence reported that half the Fortune 100 companies have been compromised by a botnet they dubbed Mariposa. Discovered in May, Mariposa appears to have been built using the readily available butterfly bot kit. While the afflicted among the Fortune 100 haven’t stepped forward to corroborate this claim, the threat [...]
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s annual privacy report card revealed more details on the agency’s controversial policy involving searches of electronic devices at U.S. borders. The 99-page report, which was released Thursday, also offered details on the agency’s efforts to address privacy risks in social media and the use of imaging technologies that produce [...]
“Computer specialists at the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus say a hacker may have accessed the personal data of 236,000 women in a mammography research study. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that the Social Security numbers of more than half of the study participants at UNC-Chapel Hill may have been exposed. [...]
“Social networks can be scary places that cause many companies to debate whether to continue supporting social network access for employees at the office. But keeping a company safe from potential security issues isn’t as hard as it might appear. Here are 10 ways to make social network access safer.” (10 Ways to Protect Your [...]
“A Russian security group has posted a detailed blog post (translation here) about how they managed to extract the source code to over 3,300 websites. The group found that some of the largest and best known domains on the web, such as apache.org and php.net, amongst others, are vulnerable to an elementary information leak that [...]
“A bill to require the president to assess the government’s cybersecurity workforce, including an agency-by-agency skills assessment, cleared a House panel on Wednesday. The legislation also would order the White House to evaluate the pool of available cybersecurity talent and any barriers to the recruitment of cybersecurity professionals. The House Committee on Science and Technology’s [...]
