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Ex- CEO Charged in Denial of Service Attack
Saturday, 31 Oct, 2009 – 18:24 | No Comment

“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 …

Cyberattacks traced to NKorea
Friday, 30 Oct, 2009 – 7:32 | No Comment

“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 …

NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity Data Center
Thursday, 29 Oct, 2009 – 13:36 | No Comment

“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 …

Twitter users warned about new phishing attack
Thursday, 29 Oct, 2009 – 8:09 | No Comment

“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 …

Cybercrooks Trick Gawker Into Serving Malware-Laced Ad
Tuesday, 27 Oct, 2009 – 21:21 | No Comment

“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 …

Swiss ministry says it was victim of cyber attack
Monday, 26 Oct, 2009 – 18:11 | No Comment

“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 …

Nigeria cracks down on cyber crime, busts 18 syndicates
Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009 – 14:41 | No Comment

“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 …

Phishing Gang Dominates Online Devilment
Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009 – 14:37 | No Comment

“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)

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Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices
Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009 – 10:50 | No Comment

“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 …

Report: China building cyberwarfare capabilities
Thursday, 22 Oct, 2009 – 19:55 | No Comment

“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 …