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Kevin Mitnick used to obtain security credentials not by using special hacking software or tools, but by using social engineering. This way he would manage to get passwords and code which he would later use to hack into company networks. His most prestigious hacks include Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Siemens and ... |
16 July 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Earlier this week we were reporting that Alan Soloway, better known as the Spam King, would be sentenced after having been charged with mail fraud, e-mail fraud, and tax evasion, and the honorable judge Marsha Pechman was expected to issue a sentence. Although two days have been put aside so that every witness could... |
16 July 2008
04:33 GMT |
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San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN network, which is used to handle delicate information in regard to law enforcement documents and city payroll files, was hijacked by a 43 year old disgruntled employee. Terry Childs used to work for the city of San Francisco as a computer network administrator and it... |
16 July 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Japanese electronics company OKI has recently announced the release of its FSE (Face Recognition Engine) Ver.4 which can be embedded into surveillance systems so as to specifically identify individuals by their face. In the near future OKI hopes to further develop the technology, so that after identifying a face the ... |
15 July 2008
10:04 GMT |
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According to Trend Micro, company that specializes in providing Internet security solutions, social networking sites are a security threat not only to the user, but also to the company's network. This is because a lager and larger number of people access such sites from their workplace, using the PC and Internet... |
15 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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A little while back we were reporting that Steve Thomas, co-founder of security software company Webroot, had gone missing. At the time the police were still hoping to find him, although they had no lead to go on. His dead body has been discovered near the base of Nuuanu Pali Lookout in Oahu, which is 985 feet high (... |
15 July 2008
08:11 GMT |
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For people who are always on the go, a laptop is a must-have piece of technology. The thing is that it can be lost, not to mention stolen, incredibly easily. And once that happens, you also lose all the data stored on it (which sometimes can be private, confidential information that you don't want others to loo... |
15 July 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Cloudmark, company that specializes in providing security software solutions, has recently announced that its Global Threat Network technology has received US patent number 7373385. The invention of this technology is credited to Vipul Ved Prakash and it is the first ever collaborative threat detection system. A tota... |
15 July 2008
05:03 GMT |
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A hacker known online as AKILL - his real name is Owen Thor Walker - has recently been brought to justice in New Zealand. The 18 year old admitted to six charges of e-crime as well as to being the mastermind behind a botnet that led to damages of over $20 million and caused a Pennsylvania University server to crash. ... |
15 July 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Just recently, we were reporting that the UK Government was asking for tighter SMEs data security and that phishing attacks on Irish SMEs were on the increase. According to Firebrand, a company that specializes in IT training services, one solution would be not to wait for an actual attack, and to simulate one yourse... |
14 July 2008
11:29 GMT |
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The IT security world continues to be plagued by data loss incidents; laptops with confidential data are stolen or lost on airports, disks are gone, USB memory devices are misplaced, and so on. According to Blue Chip Technologies, amongst all the things that cause data to be lost, human error accounts for 26% of it ... |
14 July 2008
10:44 GMT |
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If you were to choose a metaphor to compare network security with, what would it be? Would you compare it to a chain that is as strong as its weakest link, or would you compare it to an impenetrable fortress? Well, here are the opinions of some of the best known security specialists in the business.For Whitehat Secur... |
14 July 2008
08:42 GMT |
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Comcast subscribers that wanted to share files with the aid of BitTorrent trackers found that the Internet provider had imposed a certain traffic limit. Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) said that the previously mentioned company will not be fined, but measures will be taken to ... |
14 July 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Today, a sentence will be issued in the case of Robert Alan Soloway, aka the Spam King, who is charged with single counts of mail and e-mail fraud and tax evasion. Soloway has already pleaded guilty as charged and risks spending the next 25 years in jail (20 for mail fraud and 5 for e-mail fraud) as well as paying a ... |
14 July 2008
06:02 GMT |
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The name of this hacker is Abdul-Rahman Mahaini, he is 26 years old and he lives in Damascus, Syria. According to him, he has so far cracked software programs worth millions of dollars and he will continue to do so, no matter how difficult it is to crack a certain program. He says that he does not do this for the hac... |
14 July 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Servers with open SSH ports have recently begun to come under hacker attack, which seems to be coordinated, although it is not automatically reported because the hackers employ a brute force attack from more than one machine. Nazar Aziz, IT consultant and developer, has been vigilant enough to detect the attack, whi... |
14 July 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Why should scammers and spammers limit themselves to the Internet when there are far more mobile phone users than web surfers? In Australia there is a new scam going on, that attempts to separate people from their hard earned money by informing them that a hitman has been hired to kill them. Of course, you can get a... |
12 July 2008
07:37 GMT |
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Ireland-based SMEs (short for Small and Medium Enterprises) are experiencing an increase in scamming attempts, as reported by a recently issued survey conducted by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association (ISME). Attackers resort to phishing type attempts, as well as false invoices and international business... |
12 July 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Homer Simpson's handle, chunkylover53, which was registered by Matt Selman, writer and producer of the show, has recently resurfaced and it is being used to spread malware. Users are tempted with the possibility of viewing an "Internet only" episode of "The Simpsons," but that .exe file is nothing more than mal... |
12 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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Recent security related events in the UK have proven that data security is not taken as seriously as it should be. Security software vendors and manufacturers try waging a never ending fight against spam, viruses and other types of malicious software, but data still isn't safe. According to the officials, the f... |
11 July 2008
11:19 GMT |
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The PCI DSS (short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a set of rules and guidelines meant to protect the customer and merchant against fraud. Since you will be providing the merchant with your credit card info, it is important that it stays safe from attackers and hackers. UK based department store ... |
11 July 2008
10:36 GMT |
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Thales, a French based company that specializes in defense and aerospace electronics, is planning on expanding, which is why it wants to improve its information security services. That is why it is offering to buy nCipher for the total sum of £50.7 million (that is just slightly above $100 million). Thales does not c... |
11 July 2008
08:44 GMT |
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You never think that spam, spyware, or any other form of malicious software can impact you in a truly life-altering way. Well, it definitely can and Julie Amero, a substitute teacher from Connecticut, is living proof of that. She was charged with allowing 7th grade children to view pop-ups containing adult material,... |
11 July 2008
07:08 GMT |
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The Presidential and Federal Records Act has been revised and updated by the US House of Representatives because recent events have proved that e-mail recording was a "bit" lax, leading to about 5 million lost e-mails a couple of months ago.Historic letters from the US' past are treated with the accurate respect... |
11 July 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Visitors to the Financial Times web page yesterday might have noticed that there were no new articles published and that other data had not been updated either. This happened because somebody nicked (British for stole) "equipment" from 3rd party facilities where it was hosted. It has not been disclosed what type of e... |
11 July 2008
04:10 GMT |
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According to Secure Computing, a company that specializes in providing Internet security appliances as security software solutions, there is a new Trojan out there that works by infecting all multimedia files (that would be music and movies) stored on the user's machine. This threat has been identified by the p... |
11 July 2008
03:15 GMT |
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A short while back we were reporting on a DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky, and which has since then been patched by the industry. The thing is that after unveiling this vulnerability, he met with industry representatives from the 16 major IT companies that manufacture DNS software and shed some light on the situ... |
10 July 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Earlier this week we were reporting that the recently discovered DNS security flaws have been patched in a simultaneous effort by the entire industry. Although the fix resolves those security issues, it may also leave Zone Alarm users without an Internet connection. The following platforms are affected: ZoneAlarm Fre... |
10 July 2008
07:51 GMT |
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Webroot, a company that specializes in providing antivirus and antispyware security solutions, was co-founded by Steven Thomas back in 1997. It seems that the 36 year old millionaire has gone missing from a hotel in Hawaii, last week. While the local authorities are trying to find him, his family prays that he is saf... |
10 July 2008
06:23 GMT |
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The McAfee team has just recently finished analyzing all the data from the S.P.A.M. (short for Spammed Persistently All Month) and a report has been made available. Entitled "Global S.P.A.M. Diaries", the report includes a detailed and comprehensive presentation of all the McAfee findings. Jeff Green, Senior Vice Pr... |
9 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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It seems that the Gmail's developers truly care for the security of its users. Since you can sign in to the Google account from different locations at the same time, there is the possibility you could forget to sign out of one and then be faced with an invasion of privacy. Thanks to the new feature from Gmail, y... |
9 July 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The Indian authorities are very concerned about the fact that e-mail messages sent through BlackBerry devices cannot be intercepted and the encryption cannot be broken. Why would the Indian Government want access to such private information? It seems that this method of communication was recently used by militants a... |
9 July 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Not too long ago a hacker group from Turkey, calling themselves the NetDEvilz, managed to redirect traffic from the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) web pages to another site where they claimed that they were in control of the net. The corpora... |
9 July 2008
07:55 GMT |
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After the recent 4th of July campaign, Storm related spam is once again making the news. The latest Storm spam messages inform you that the US military has invaded Iran and you are of course invited to click on a link and watch video footage directly from the battle scene, but if you do, you will be infected with ir... |
9 July 2008
07:52 GMT |
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The Mozilla team is not pleased with the manner in which browser security is assessed by the industry and wants to make a few changes. The new security metrics system should look past the simple bug, update and patch count and more accurately reflect the level of protection offered by the browser. Several factors mu... |
8 July 2008
08:49 GMT |
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Trend Micro, a company that specializes in security software solutions, seems to be doing quite well on the Tokyo stock market. Following a ratings modification by Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, from "outperform to "strong outperform", Trend Micro has seen more money coming in than in the past three months. In the world ... |
8 July 2008
04:21 GMT |
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With the much awaited release of the new iPhone, there are some concerns regarding the safety of the connection between the devices and Internet servers. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a company that specializes in providing security software solutions, is tackling the issue by offering the VPN-1, which ens... |
7 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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The concept of going green is targeting the IT security world too; just because you have to deal with viruses and Trojans and other malware all day long does not mean you should disregard the environment. Representatives from different security software companies have different views regarding this issue. Richard Sti... |
7 July 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Panda security is celebrating 18 years of activity; the company that specializes in providing security software and security solutions was founded in 1990 in Spain and it has grown considerably since then. It now has subsidiaries in Spain, France, Japan and the US, and has plans to expand even further. A vulnerabili... |
7 July 2008
02:51 GMT |
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According to David Harley, research author with Eset (company that specializes in providing security software solutions), there are older viruses out there that can still infect your PC. The infection may get onto your computer before you get to install security software, or even worse, because your up to date antiv... |
4 July 2008
08:51 GMT |
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Although the world's attention is focused on Firefox 3, the Mozilla team has not forgotten about the Internet users out there who still have the 2.0 version installed on their systems. At the beginning of July Mozilla's Firefox 2.0.015 was launched addressing a dozen security issues (literally). It seems th... |
4 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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In the second part of our small tutorial, we'll take a look at some of the ways to protect your computer and how to evade getting a computer infected with any kind of malware. As oppose to the first part, this article is not about choosing the best security application; instead you may look at it as a list of pi... |
3 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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The EFF (short for Electronic Frontier Foundation) and the ACLU (short for American Civil Liberties Union) have initiated legal action against the United States Government. The above mentioned organizations decided to sue the federal government after the Freedom of Information request that was filed last year went u... |
3 July 2008
12:32 GMT |
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What can we expect for July in terms of spam, malicious software and other web threats? MX Logic has just released its July forecast that uses recent and historical data to analyze the trends and keep you up to date and as safe as possible in terms of computer protection. The report contains detailed and comprehensi... |
3 July 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Security software provider Kaspersky has just released a top 20 of the viruses that plagued the web last month. The results were not astounding, with the generic Trojan Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q still leading the board. As a matter of fact, out of the total 20 malicious programs, 15 were Trojans. In regard to the co... |
3 July 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Fortinet, a company specialized in providing UTM security systems, has recently published a report regarding the threats it detected in June. According to this report, attackers are once again targeting the online gaming industry, after a short downfall in May and April. The password stealing malware is spreading fr... |
2 July 2008
11:19 GMT |
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After a one and a half year review, the British Red Cross is finally substituting its old EPoS (short for electronic point of sale) with a new one. The review determined that the old system was obsolete, incapable of properly performing its purpose, and thus had to be swapped for a new one. The implementation of the... |
2 July 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Google, IBM and The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology do not take this lightly, unlike hundreds of millions of users out there. According to a study conducted by five researchers from the above mentioned companies, only 59% of PC users take the time to update and patch their browser. The remaining some 40% or abo... |
2 July 2008
04:51 GMT |
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iAntiVirus, PC Tools' anti-virus and anti-spyware application specifically crafted for the Mac, has reached its second beta stage. Available as a free download, the software comes in the light of various reports of exploit security holes and poor security practices with Mac software. The paid version offers full... |
1 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Nowadays, keeping your computer clean and secure is not a very easy thing to do. Threats may come in all shapes and sizes; so, if you don't have the necessary programs and knowledge, you might find yourself in a very dangerous situation. The following article is a small tutorial of the basic measures you should ... |
29 June 2008
07:15 GMT |
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