Items Tagged with "Headlines"
Company Guilty of Illegal Export of U.S. Military Software to China
July 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Preventing the loss of critical U.S. information and technologies is one of the most important investigative priorities of the FBI. Our adversaries routinely target sensitive research and development data and intellectual property from universities, government agencies, manufacturers, and defense contractors..."
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Citadel Malware May Be Coming Off the Open Market
July 03, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"With law enforcement hot on their heels, developers of the Citadel Trojan... dropped the bomb. The team’s spokesman declared that very soon their “software” will no longer be publicly available through the underground venues where the team has traditionally marketed and sold Citadel..."
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Symantec: Blackhole Exploit Kit Upgrade Revealed
July 03, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The Blackhole JavaScript code on compromised sites now dynamically generates pseudo-random domains, based on the date and other information, and then creates an iframe pointing to the generated domain... The code then creates a hidden iframe, using the previously-generated domain as the source..."
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Georgia Man Convicted for Role in Phishing Operation
July 03, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Osarhieme Uyi Obaygbona, 32, of Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted last week of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit identity theft, and conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to protected computers. Phishing attacks use fraudulent web pages that mimic the legitimate web pages...
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Despite Breach Trends - Website Vulnerabilities Decrease
July 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Despite the plethora of recent breach headlines, websites could in fact be getting... less vulnerable... The time for using 'No one would want to attack us' as a security strategy is clearly over, if it was ever true to begin with. Any company doing business online has something worth hacking into..."
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Operation High Roller Reveals Sophisticated Automated Attacks
July 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"With no human participation required, each attack moves quickly and scales neatly.This operation combines an insider level of understanding of banking transaction systems with both custom and off the shelf malicious code and appears to be worthy of the term 'organized crime,'" the report states...
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Falconstor Software Conspired to Bribe Chase Executives
July 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a criminal complaint against FalconStor Software, a data storage and protection company, alleging that the company conspired to pay more than $300,000 in bribes to executives of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank to obtain over $12 million in electronic storage licencing contracts...
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Over Ten Percent of Fortune 500 Still Infected by DNSChanger
June 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
US-CERT "encourages users and administrators to utilize the FBI's rogue DNS detection tool to ensure their systems are not infected with the DNSChanger malware. Computers testing positive for infection of the DNSChanger malware will need to be cleaned of the malware to ensure continued Internet connectivity..."
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Researchers Unveil Advanced Malware Detection Method
June 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Unlike traditional malware detection tools, RiskRanker does not rely on malware samples and signatures already identified. It is able to identify applications that exhibit signs of malicious code while they are still in the marketplace, before the malware is downloaded onto potential victim's mobile devices...
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ENISA Report Calls for Kick-Start in Cyber Insurance Market
June 29, 2012
The report, ‘Incentives and barriers to the cyber insurance market in Europe,’ highlights the fact that while cyber security is an important concern for policy makers, businesses and citizens, traditional coverage offered by insurance providers may not comprehensively address digital risk...
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Citadel Trojan Variant Evades Virtual Machine Analysis
June 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"When a virtualized environment detected, unlike many other Trojans that stop to work, Citadel will continue to operate... It will generate a unique-machine dependent domain name (obviously fake) and tries to connect to this server (unsuccessfully), making it to believe that the bot is dead..."
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KeePass Vulnerability Exposes Password Lists
June 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“The bug will be injected on the remote way, affects the local validation (html/xml) and change the technic back when remotely transferring the password lists. The injection of the malicious URL/domain context can be done via auto save of URLs (victim) or manually (reproduce)," the researchers stated...
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Center for Internet Security Unveils Trusted Purchasing Alliance
June 28, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“The mission of the Alliance is to maximize buying power to improve the cyber security posture of governments and not-for-profits... to help organizations in the public sector procure solutions to address cyber security... [a] trusted environment public sector organizations can turn to for expert guidance..."
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Twenty-Four Arrests in Eight Countries in Cyber Crime Takedown
June 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“As the cyber threat grows more international, the response must be increasingly global and forceful. The coordinated law enforcement actions taken by an unprecedented number of countries around the world demonstrate that hackers and fraudsters cannot count on being able to prowl the Internet..."
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RSA: Claims of SecurID 800 Token Crack are Whack
June 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"RSA has received many inquiries, press pickups, blog entries, and tweets regarding an alleged crack by researchers of the RSA SecurID 800 authenticator... an alarming claim and should rightly concern customers who have deployed the RSA SecurID 800 authenticator. The only problem is that it’s not true..."
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ENISA: Getting Ready for Cyber Europe 2012
June 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Cyber Europe 2012 is the 2nd pan-European exercise on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. It ties together the extensive activities in the EU, at both national and European level, to improve the resilience of critical information infrastructures. The exercise will take place in the autumn...