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UK cops lose high-tech crime site

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:15:04 +0000

UK police, “have embarrassingly lost control of the National High-Tech Crime Unit website,” says PC Pro. The unit was folded into the Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCA) a couple of years ago, but, “it appears the police have let the domain registration lapse, and it has now been picked up by an opportunistic German owner, Uwe […]

Computer with sensitive bank data sold on eBay

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:15:07 +0000

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 […]

Young Canadians targeted by cyber crooks

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:15:04 +0000

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 […]

Young Canadians targeted by cyber crooks

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:05 +0000

Princeton Review test scores online

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:30:11 +0000

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 […]

Beward ?Smishing? ? mobile phishing attack

admin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:00:20 +0000

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 […]

Half of all malware threats ?go undetected?

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:30:14 +0000

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 […]

Microsoft Exploitability Index

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:45:05 +0000

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 […]

Microsoft Exploitability Index

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:30:09 +0000

Online dirty deeds cost users $8.5 billion in 2 years

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:30:06 +0000

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 […]