Security Bytes
October 2007
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McAfee buys ScanAlert
- Editor 30 Oct 2007 -
FTC: Beware of phishing attempts
- TechTarget 30 Oct 2007 -
TJX court documents confirm earlier suspicions
- TechTarget 29 Oct 2007
On the heels of its acquisition of SafeBoot, McAfee on Tuesday said it's buying ScanAlert, a supplier of Web site security certifications, for $51 million. Napa, Calif.-based ScanAlert audits and ...
Phishers are sending out fake messages from the Federal Trade Commission that drop malware onto the machines of users who click the malicious attachment. In response, the FTC has issued a public ...
I'm not surprised by court documents claiming that TJX blew it on nine of the 12 requirements of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which of course allowed hackers to break into its network ...
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Windows admins unhappy over Automatic Update changes
- TechTarget 26 Oct 2007 -
Spammers exploiting SoCal fires
- Editor 24 Oct 2007 -
Reported Vonage flaw a reminder of VoIP dangers
- Senior Analyst 24 Oct 2007 -
Why data thieves love academia
- TechTarget 24 Oct 2007 -
Beware of malicious pdf files
- TechTarget 24 Oct 2007 -
Alleged DDoS attack knocks Rockies’ ticket sales site offline
- R.I.S.C. Associates 23 Oct 2007 -
Web app security scanners not finding everything, study says
- TechTarget 23 Oct 2007
A couple weeks back, Windows expert Scott Dunn warned that the repair feature in Windows XP was knocked out of alignment when Microsoft silently deployed a batch of new support files for Windows ...
It's inevitable: Whenever there's a disaster, online scammers try to exploit the situation. Randy Abrams, director of technical education at security software vendor Eset, said he received an email ...
We've written quite a bit in the past about how many enterprises are ignoring the dangers of voice over IP (VoIP). While we doubt many enterprises are in the practice of using Vonage, as yet ...
Check out the excellent chronology of data breaches kept by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and you'll notice that a massive chunk of those affected reside in academia. At a gathering of IT ...
Yesterday we reported that Adobe patched a critical flaw in its Adobe Reader and Acrobat programs. Now comes word that the bad guys are sending out malicious .pdf files that exploit the ...
Colorado Rockies fans, who have been waiting for generations--or at least part of one generation--to see their team in the World Series, will have to wait another day to get tickets for the series ...
In this age of Web 2.0-based attacks, companies are turning to a variety of Web application security scanners to help them find and fix security holes. But according to a study conducted by ...
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Spike in failed SSH logins could be beginnings of a coordinated attack, ISC says
- R.I.S.C. Associates 22 Oct 2007 -
More Storms on the horizon
- R.I.S.C. Associates 19 Oct 2007 -
Track data breaches, protect yourself
- TechTarget 19 Oct 2007 -
Storm worm spreads with Krackin faux file sharing site
- TechTarget 18 Oct 2007 -
Administaff laptop theft exposes 159,000 to ID fraud
- TechTarget 18 Oct 2007
Networks around the country are seeing evidence of what may be a coordinated attack on SSH servers. The folks at the Internet Storm Center have gotten a number of reports of activity that looks ...
The news on the Storm worm just keeps getting worse. In just the last few days, there have come reports that the worm's author (or other criminals who have bought copies of the worm) is using to ...
As a tech security journalist, I try to stay on top of any new report of data security breaches. It's becoming an increasingly tall order when one considers all the sensitive data that's been ...
Today the F-Secure research team brings us news of a new way cybercriminals are spreading the Storm malware. A new fake file sharing site called Krackin. According to the F-Secure blog, ...
Only hours after we ran a story Wednesday on missing personal data reported by Home Depot and Iron Mountain, I came across news of Administaff warning that someone stole a laptop with data on ...