“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)
“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 [...]
“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 assistance [...]
“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. [...]
“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 to a [...]
“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 – [...]
“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 [...]
“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)
“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 devices found in the United [...]
“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 ties to the Beijing government, [...]
