August 28th, 2008 by admin
A computer bought by IT manager Andrew Chapman for 77 (about $141) on eBay still had details on several million bank customers on its hard drive, says the BBC. “Details of customers of three companies, including the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and its subsidiary, Natwest, were involved,” said the story, According to RBS, an archiving firm […]
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August 27th, 2008 by admin
Canasda is home to lucrative but low-risk identity theft, say law enforcement agencies. “As we move more and more to the internet and technology being used, the risks are increasing, and I think that a lot of the public are not very careful about their identity,” the CBC has RCMP Commissioner William Elliott stating. Collection and trafficking […]
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August 26th, 2008 by admin
Canasda is home to lucrative but low-risk identity theft, say law enforcement agencies. “As we move more and more to the internet and technology being used, the risks are increasing, and I think that a lot of the public are not very careful about their identity,” the CBC has RCMP Commissioner William Elliott stating. Collection and trafficking […]
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August 21st, 2008 by admin
Test-preparatory firm The Princeton Review accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students online, “where they were available for seven weeks,” says The New York Times. A security hole, “allowed anyone to type in a relatively simple Web address and have unfettered access to hundreds of files on […]
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August 16th, 2008 by admin
There’s an increased risk that multi-faceted attacks or “converged threats,” warns messaging security provider Cloudmark. The company says it’s discovered new, advanced threat techniques which combine spam, phishing and malware into a single attack distributed across e-mail, the web, mobile devices and social networks. “Convergence is everywhere, including in the online attacker community,” WHIR News has Cloudmark […]
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August 13th, 2008 by admin
More than half of all malware threats go undetected, a recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors over 30 days reveals . The conclusion comes in Cyveillance’s 1H 2008 Online Fraud Report. An active malware threat is one located on a live site within the last 30 days, says the company, going on: Given the reactive nature of today’s […]
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August 8th, 2008 by admin
Microsoft says it will in future provide security service providers with detailed information ahead of time on upcoming security updates to allow them to provide faster and more reliable protection to their customers. The news came at the Black Hat security conference, says Heise Online. “One of the reasons Microsoft is doing this is to react to […]
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August 7th, 2008 by admin
Microsoft says it will in future provide security service providers with detailed information ahead of time on upcoming security updates to allow them to provide faster and more reliable protection to their customers. The news came at the Black Hat security conference, says Heise Online. “One of the reasons Microsoft is doing this is to react to […]
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August 6th, 2008 by admin
Consumers have lost almost $8.5 billion over the last two years to viruses, spyware, and phishing attacks, says Consumer Reports. But it’s not all bad news, InformationWeek points out. Computer security problems, “have been good for the computer business - consumers replaced some 2.1 million computers because of malware infections,” says the story, quoting Consumer Reports and […]
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August 1st, 2008 by admin
Most malicious drive-by activity is down to computers in China, says a Google engineer. Speaking at the Usenix security conference, about 67% of sites which “secretly drop malicious software onto visitors’ computers” are located in China, as are 64% of the compromised servers, CNET News has Niels Provos stating. “Web based malware is a significant problem and […]
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