AOL Reels In Big Phishes
America Online (AOL) filed suits in its home state of Virginia utilizing the first anti-phishing law in the country. The suits targets three international groups, charging they stole information from AOL users by sending malicious email in the guise of an "official" email from the company.
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Date: 2006-02-28
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Idiot Watch II: Ernst & Young Data Breach
Sometimes crass profanities are truly the best descriptors, though generally not acceptable in a professional world. Last week, software security firm McAfee said their accounting firm, big four member Deloitte & Touche, left a CD with lots of employee information on the plane. Another big four member, Ernst & Young, announced they lost information too.
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Date: 2006-02-27
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McAfee Mauled By Deloitte And Touche
It's always interesting to see one of the world's best-known security software firms be involved in its own identity fraud problems. This time it's tied to big four accounting firm Deloitte and Touche.
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Date: 2006-02-24
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Will Consumer Data Legislation Really Help?
Two weeks ago, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) proposed legislation designed to protect consumer data by forcing various companies to destroy the consumer information after a reasonable period of time. The big question is will it work?
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Date: 2006-02-23
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Microsoft Defensive Toward iDefense
This had to dig in Microsoft's gut just a little bit. Security software company and division of Verisign, iDefense, announced last week they would offer a $10,000 bounty for vulnerabilities Microsoft classifies as "Critical." Perhaps this is a new sort of "viral marketing."
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Date: 2006-02-22
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Safari Shell-Shocked By Scripts
Mac lovers are in a tizzy over the continued onslaught against their beloved Mac OS X. This time Safari is the victim as German website Heise reports on a security flaw in the browser. The option "Open ‘safe' files after downloading" in Safari seems to be doing the dirty deed and the groovy thing is it's activated by default.
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Date: 2006-02-21
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Big Mac Attack Debate Continues
One of the hottest security issues running right now remains the Mac OS X virus discovered by Sophos last week. While some argue this OS X virus isn't cause for alarm or even something to be taken seriously, after reading the information, common sense would dictate otherwise.
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Date: 2006-02-20
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Mac OS X Viral Infections
The Mac from Apple was long thought to be relatively safe from viruses and the like, but a new virus is worming its way through via iChat and it's doing a good job. That was yesterday. Another proof of concept worm appeared today. This one gets in through Bluetooth.
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Date: 2006-02-17
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Spyware Is Everywhere
Everyone knows spyware on the Internet is a huge problem. There's tons of malicious software out there solely for the purpose of gleaning information on various users. And they do. A recent study done at the University of Washington explains just how much is out there and it's not pretty. The problem is nearly all of this is for Internet Explorer (IE) alone.
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Date: 2006-02-16
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Judge Says Companies Don’t Need To Encrypt
A federal judge in Minnesota decided companies don't necessarily need to encrypt data as part of their cyber security framework. Stacy Lawton Guin filed suit against Brazos Higher Education Service saying encryption should be part of the standard security. The judge said no.
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Date: 2006-02-15
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Microsoft Doesn't Show Norton The Love
If one didn't know better, one would think Symantec was lovelorn over Microsoft's new anti-spyware beta. Usually it's a good idea to bring a trojan on a date. This time, however, Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta tagged Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus as password stealing trojan virus.
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Date: 2006-02-14
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DHS Ends First Mock Cyberattack
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) completed their Cyber Storm cyber-war games exercise last week. It was the first full-scale government-led cybersecurity exercise of its kind to examine response, coordination and recovery mechanisms from local, state, federal, international and private sector responses. There were 115 public, private and international agencies, organizations and companies involved.
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Date: 2006-02-13
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Google Wants To Get In Your Business
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Google has introduced a new feature into called "Search Across Computers" and it's got more than a few people up in arms about it. The new feature allows users to work through files on other computers in their network. Of course all these files are stored on Google's servers back in Cali.
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Date: 2006-02-10
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Feebs Variant Behind Complex eBay Fraud
The kids at Aladdin tracked down a new Feebs Trojan variant that includes a nasty and dangerous new fraud scandal tied to eBay. With new phishing scams popping up every day, it's no surprise another big one has come down.
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Date: 2006-02-09
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Microsoft Gives Details On OneCare Live
The Redmond railroad keeps on moving with the announcement of pricing and licensing details surrounding their new subscription based security service. Microsoft's OneCare Live will be available in June from both retailers and online.
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Date: 2006-02-08
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Danish Websites Under The Gun
One of the biggest international controversies right now surrounds political cartoons run in a Danish newspaper back in September. The issue's come to a head in recent weeks and while the world watches the testy mobs in the middle east, web sites based in Denmark are getting attacked.
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Date: 2006-02-07
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Looking For Mr. Goodmail
Spam continues to be a major problem on the Internet. People all over the world receive millions of emails everyday and the vast majority of it is absolutely worthless.
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Date: 2006-02-06
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AT&T Sued For Helping NSA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit on Tuesday against AT&T, charging the venerable telecom giant of "violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA)."
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Date: 2006-02-03
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No Breakfast At Tiffany’s For eBay
There's nothing like a little fraud to rattle the cage of the world's largest online auction house. Audrey Hepburn's favorite jewelry store claims their cage has been rattled long enough and has filed suit against eBay.
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Date: 2006-02-02
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Valentine’s Day Fix For Kama Sutra Worm
It's a decent headline. It's better than saying Microsoft is waiting to fix a vulnerability being exploited until after the fact. The Kama Sutra worm has been making and is estimated to have made its way into close to half a million computers worldwide. Patch Tuesday is next week so they'll wait and fix it then.
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Date: 2006-02-01
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