Items Tagged with "Headlines"
FBI Wants More Access to Internet Communications
November 17, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Creating systems to easily and quickly un-encrypt data could produce a threat to sensitive information that would otherwise remain secure. The widely publicized Aurora attacks originating in China used back-doors that were originally created to give the government easy access to communications..
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Internet Kill Switch Debate Still Very Alive
November 17, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Regardless of the outcome of the proposed legislation, in the case of a national emergency, Internet access will be marginal at best, and business continuity plans that rely heavily on the notion that employees will be able to login to corporate networks from home are severely flawed...
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Verizon Unveils Threat and Breach Reporting Portal
November 16, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Verizon has launched an anonymous breach reporting website with ICSA Labs called VERIS in an effort to elicit and consolidate data on security threats that are often isolated in disparate information silos or that remain unreported entirely...
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USCC Report to Detail Chinese Cyber Espionage
November 16, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will release a report which is expected to detail the recent hijacking of 15% of worldwide internet traffic through Chinese telecom networks which contained data packets from the United States military, Executive Branch, and NASA...
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FBI's IC3 Has Logged Two Million Internet Crime Reports
November 16, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Statistics reported by the organization, which was was established as a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), indicate the losses from cyber crime have doubled in recent years...
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Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure On the Rise
November 16, 2010 Added by:Headlines
More than three-quarters of respondents indicated the frequency of attacks was increasing. Companies reported an average of ten attacks over the past five years, and nearly half of those surveyed expect to be subject to another attack in the next twelve months...
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Imperva Releases Top 10 Security Threats for 2011
November 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The predictions for the top ten information security trends expected in 2011, compiled by Imperva’s Application Defense Center, are based on analysis of incident and vulnerability data from the past year as well as findings from the company’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative...
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One Quarter of All PC Users Stung by Help Desk Scams
November 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Internet scam artists are unrelenting in their efforts to lure unsuspecting web users into handing over sensitive information. A report by consumer security advocates GetSafeOnline.org reveals a stunning twenty-five percent of all PC users have been fooled by Help Desk scams...
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Stuxnet Developed to Halt Iran's Uranium Enrichment
November 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Researchers from Symantec have concluded that Stuxnet was designed to interfere with the performance of high-speed electric motors, the types which would be required to operate the gas centrifuges used in the refinement process...
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Tumblr Hits 4chan With DDoS Attack - War Enusues
November 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Users of the popular Tumblr website launched a preemptive DDoS attack that downed competitor 4chan after rumors circulated that 4chan was preparing to flood rival Tumblr with submissions designed to knock its servers offline. And so the DDoS war has begun...
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Meet the Most Dangerous Domain - .VN
November 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
More than half of the domains with the suffix .VN contain malicious code meant to infect surfers and steal sensitive information, according to research released by McAfee. .VN is the riskiest national domain to visit, exceeded only by the ubiquitous .COM and .INFOR...
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Irony - Administration Proposes Internet Privacy Czar
November 14, 2010 Added by:Headlines
It is ironic to think that an increase in government monitoring and policing of online activities will do anything to increase privacy for consumers. As a free society, we need to be careful about empowering federal bureaucracies in order to preserve individual freedoms...
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Realtek Digital Certificates Accompany Malware
November 14, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The certificates are similar to those that accompanied the Stuxnet virus. There is no evidence that Realtek is authorizing the use of the certificates, and researchers speculate that criminal cyber gangs responsible for the Lethic malware are simply using unverified forgeries...
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Koobface Botnet Server Disabled - For Now
November 13, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Koobface, on the scene since 2008, has been one of the most notoriously successful botnet operations ever tracked, though not necessarily the most insidious, as the network has never sought to capitalize on its full potential...
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Java Still Presents Soft Target for Malware Threats
November 13, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The exploit is still being proliferated despite the fact that a patch to prevent the infection has been available since July, which is evidence that users have not been as proactive about securing Java as regularly as they update Windows patches...
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US Officials Overwhelmed By Cyber Defense Problem
November 13, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Further obstacles to innovation are inherent in the legislative process, with a plethora of competing cyber security bills being offered for consideration. Legislation is a slow and cumbersome process, and results in regulatory red tape that ultimately inhibits the private sector...