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Scant Brain Power Behind Massive DDoS Attack

April 1, 2013

One of the largest denial of service attacks in the history of the Internet didn't take rocket science to execute. The offensive was conducted over several days last week after the anti-spam group Spamhaus placed a Dutch hosting service, located in a former NATO bunker, on a blacklist reserved for s...

Cyberattackers Brewed Special Malware Cocktail for South Korea

March 25, 2013

Cybersecurity news had a distinctive international flavor last week. In South Korea, a cyberattack from unknown sources disrupted portions of the nation's banking and broadcast industries. During the attacks, a North Korean Human Rights website based in Washington, D.C. was also defaced. Because of ...

Spam Boom Prompts Call for Businesses to Ditch Email

March 18, 2013

Just when we thought the spam scourge was over, it appears it's making a comeback. After four straight quarters of decline, spam volumes on the Internet rose 92 percent in February, according to security firm Eleven Research Team. Nasty forms of spam also showed significant increases. Phishing email...

Phishers Cast Longlines to Hook More Victims

March 11, 2013

Phishing and spear phishing have long been thought to be mutually exclusive hacking tricks, but cybercrooks have found a way to combine the two in a technique called longline phishing. "The technique allows you to hit a lot of people very quickly and largely go undetected," said Dave Jevans, founder...

China on Cyberattacks: US Is Pot Calling the Kettle Black

March 4, 2013

After taking it on the chin for its alleged attacks on U.S. media outlets -- and for its army reportedly backing hackers engaged in cyberespionage around the world -- China returned fire. The government claimed its defense and military ministries' websites are being bombarded with 144,000 hacking at...

Hacks, Hijacks and Hunts for Chinese Data Thieves

February 25, 2013

Still smarting from a recent attack on its systems, Facebook started its week with a discovery by researchers at Bitdefender that an infected add-on at the Chrome Web Store was planting malware on its members' computers. The malware, among other things, was padding the Like counts on dummy Facebook ...

A Porous Perimeter Perplexes Security Pros

February 19, 2013

While it's a nasty pill to swallow for old-line security folks, the perimeter isn't what it used to be. The days when a company could hide behind its firewall and feel secure are gone. Pockets of resistance to that notion still exist, but the message is getting through to security pros. "It's a pain...

Attack on Fed Exposes Weak Patch Maintenance

February 11, 2013

While many Americans watched the wrap-up of the Super Bowl Feb. 3, the band of hackers called "Anonymous" broke into a Web-facing server at the Federal Reserve and pilfered a list of some 4,000 people who work in the banking industry -- many of them ranking executives at banks and credit unions. Lat...

NYT Hack Shows Gaping Holes in Traditional Security Systems

February 4, 2013

After The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed last week that their systems had been compromised by Chinese hackers, the Journal reported that the FBI has been probing attacks on U.S. media -- part of a long-running pattern by a "foreign entity" to compromise security at major U.S. co...

Brace Yourself for the Post-PC Threat Era

January 28, 2013

It was inevitable. As computing has evolved, so has its nemesis: malware. "2012 is truly the year we entered the post-PC era as cybercriminals moved to embrace Android, social media platforms, and even Macs with their attacks," Trend Micro declared in its annual Security Roundup last week. A charact...

Facebook Graph Search: Welcome to the Phishing Pool

January 21, 2013

Facebook may have given phishers a reason to rejoice last week when it announced a new way to search for information about its billion members. Graph Search allows a Facebook member to use semantic search to find and aggregate information about people on the social network. Because Graph Search can ...

100 Million Systems Vulnerable to Java Flaw

January 14, 2013

A zero-day flaw in Oracle's Java programming language could make as many as 100 million computers connected to the Internet vulnerable to attack by cybercriminals. The threat posed by the Java vulnerability was considered so serious that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users ...

Bogus Google Certificate Exposes Broader Problem

January 7, 2013

Google spotted an impostor certificate on Christmas Eve and took quick action, but the event is calling into question the reliability of Secure Socket Layer security. Turktrust, a Turkish Web certificate authority, acknowledged it gave two entities the power to create certificates when it shouldn't...

Stuxnet Strikes Again? Not Likely

January 2, 2013

Iran boasted last week that its malware fighters fended off another attack on its infrastructure by the notorious Stuxnet computer worm. Stuxnet targeted a power plant and some other industries in the southern part of the country, but Iranian computer experts were able to thwart the attack, a provin...

Uncle Sam Prefers to Receive Than to Give Security Information

December 27, 2012

The White House last week released its National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding without much fanfare. The document attempts to address a common complaint lodged against government when it comes to information sharing with the private sector: Uncle Sam likes to receive, but isn't so...
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