Economic Crisis Thought To Fuel Data Theft
Last year, companies worldwide lost about $1 trillion to intellectual property theft and damage repair, an estimate McAfee calls conservative. The company warns that a weakened worldwide economy will just increase data theft in 2009.
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Date: 2009-01-29
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Conficker Worm Called An Epidemic
A week and a half ago, Panda Security warned about the potential spread of the Conficker worm, a virus spread via USB devices. Since then, Panda has found that nearly six percent of scanned computers were infected, spanning 83 countries.
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Date: 2009-01-22
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History's Biggest Data Breach Upstaged By Biggest Inauguration
It's a tough line to swallow that Heartland Payment System's announcement about the biggest security breach in history wasn't timed to be effectively drowned out by inauguration buzz-about as hard to swallow as the idea that tens of millions of credit card numbers are essentially useless to those who snagged them.
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Date: 2009-01-21
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Malware Trendsetters For 2009
There've been a lot of malware forecasts for 2009, and nearly all of them indicate that the digital scourge will be more sophisticated than in the past. McAfee's latest release of threat predictions is no exception, documenting how malware authors continuously keep up to date with the latest technological trends.
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Date: 2009-01-19
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The Botnet Heavyweights Of 2009
SecureNetworks' list of "bots to watch in 2009" reads like an overview of heavyweight boxers, detailing weight, records, and fighting styles. The good news is some heavy hitters retired in 2008.
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Date: 2009-01-16
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Securing The Presidential Blackberry
The Presidential Blackberry. Wouldn't you love to get a glimpse of it? That's precisely the problem, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told SecurityProNews. While President Bush travels generally incommunicado-that is, unthinkably for most us, sans mobile phone-the President-Elect is in a very public argument for retention of his pre-election smart phone.
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Date: 2009-01-15
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Spam News: Michelle Obama Hotter Than Britney?
Well, socially speaking, there being more interest in First Lady-Elect Michelle Obama than in Britney Spears or Paris Hilton is a positive change, one that bodes well for society. On the flip side, as Inauguration Day nears, spammers are rewarding that renewed interest in affairs of state with an onslaught of junk mail
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Date: 2009-01-14
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Conficker Worm Spooks Security Researchers
Security experts are warning that malware authors may be gearing up for a large-scale attack via what's been dubbed the "Conficker worm," a virus exploiting a Microsoft Windows server vulnerability and spread via USB device.
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Date: 2009-01-12
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Celeb Twitters Hacked
It was an especially nasty Monday morning at Twitter yesterday. Likely the staff didn't have time to fully wallow in post-holiday back-to-work blues for all the fires to be put out. In addition to a widespread phishing scam over the weekend, 33 celebrity accounts were hacked.
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Date: 2009-01-06
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Twitter-Based Phishing Scam Raises Alarms
It was only a matter of time before hackers targeted the increasingly popular Twitter microblogging platform. Over the weekend, phishers sent out direct messages appearing to be from Tweeters, but were really password gathering decoys.
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Date: 2009-01-05
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