Attacks Cost $3.8 Million on Average Per Year

Organizations are getting hit by at least one successful attack per week, and the annualized cost to their bottom lines from the attacks ranged from $1 million to $53 million per year, according to a newly published benchmark study of 45 U.S. organizations hit by data breaches. Read the full...

The Rise of the Rogue AV Testers

By Costin Raiu Recently, I was sitting around with a number of colleagues from Kaspersky Lab, discussing everybody’s favorite subject: the state of anti-virus testing these days. During the talks, somebody brought up the name of a new, obscure testing organization in the Far East. Nobody else had...

Researcher to Release Hacker Footprint Tool

A researcher at Black Hat USA next month plans to give away a homemade tool that helps organizations glean intelligence about the attacker behind the malware that includes information about native tongue, geographic location, and ties to other attacks. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

178 Busted in Credit Card Cloning Scheme

Authorities in 14 countries raided stolen credit card groups and six cloning labs manned by criminal organizations in the U.S., Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland with arrests in Australia, Sweden, Greece, Finland and Hungary. Read the full article. Reuters Read the Interior Minister statemen...

Novell GroupWise Messenger HTTP Response Handling Stack Overflow (CVE-2008-2703)

Novell GroupWise Messenger is a corporate instant messaging solution targeting toward medium to large enterprise organizations. It facilitates secure communications and policy-based management through Novell's eDirectory product suite. The product is based on a client-server model where messaging...

Update Protection against Trojan.Sasfis

Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a general name for a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying programs like Viruses, worms, Adware, Trojans, and spyware that exploit unprotected clients, using network...

Drupal Storm 1.32 Cross Site Scripting

Drupal Storm module is a CRM type module that allows you to make orgs, people, tasks, and project. It is used on thousands of sites according to http://drupal.org/project/usage/storm. Storm version 1.32 have a lots of cross site scripting vulns. Sploits - Make or view a Storm organization at...

Dental Practice Loses $200K to Criminals

Organized computer criminals yanked more than $200,000 out of the online bank accounts of a Missouri dental practice this month, in yet another attack that exposes the financial risks that small- to mid-sized organizations face when banking online. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

FBI Identifies Top 10 Jobs in Cybercrime

Criminal hacker organizations are operating with increasing corporate-life efficiency, specialization and expertise, said the FBI at FOSE conference. Here are the top ten operational positions in a cybercrime group. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Which ISPs Are Hosting the Bad Guys?

Security blogger Brian Krebs has compiled lists of the top 10 ISPs who are hosting the worst botnets, spam, phishing, and other malware from independent tracking organizations. These lists come from: Stop Badware, F.I.R.E., Phishtank, Zeustracker, Malware Domain List, Arbor Top ASN List, Emerging...

Domains Using .Org to Have Tighter Security

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions DNSSEC to the .org domain in June — a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning. Read the full article. Network World...

Operation Aurora Still Out There

The targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, and other U.S. organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 or so reported by Google and others. One researcher believes they are close to naming the suspected coder. Read the full article. Dark Readi...

Microsoft Tries to Boost SDL Adoption

Microsoft is trying to boost adoption of the software security practices in its Security Development Lifecycle by releasing a revised set of instructions to make implementation of the process easier and faster. At the Black Hat DC conference on Tuesday, the company announced the release of its...

Healthcare Hacks on the Rise

The last quarter of 2009 saw an average of 13,400 attempts to hack healthcare organizations, compared to an average of 6,500 in the first nine months, say researchers. Read the full article. Infosecurity...

Large DDoS Attacks Still a Serious Problem

In the world of botnets and denial-of-service attacks, 2009 was a very interesting year. While a handful of large, noisy botnets got most of the attention, there were thousands of serious, prolonged DDoS attacks that not only chewed up huge amounts of bandwidth but likely caused major problems fo...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: sahana-0.6.2.2-6.fc11

Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management System.It mainly facilitates management of Missing people, disaster victims, Managing and administrating various organisations, managing camps and managing requests and assistance in the proper distribution of resources...

Chris Hoff on Cloud Security, Disruptive Technologies and PCI DSS

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hoff of Cisco about the challenges of cloud deployment and security, cloud use cases and the effect that disruptive technologies can have on enterprises, vendors and standards organizations. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio...

SMBs, Non-Profits New Targets of Choice for Attackers

Large enterprises and consumers have been dealing with sophisticated phishing scams, online extortion plots and other assorted theft schemes for years, but now attackers are turning their attention to the huge population of small businesses and non-profits in the U.S. And they are finding a gold...

Health Care Breach Notification Mandated

From SC Magazine Angela Moscaritolo Two new rules were created this week requiring health care organizations, and other entities that interact with personal health records PHRs, to issue notifications in the event of a data breach. The key rule, issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health a...

IT staffs pressured to relax Web security

From SearchSecurity.com Rob Westervelt IT managers are under pressure from the top executives in their organizations to relax their policies on Web security in order to make users more productive. A new survey of more than 1,000 IT managers found that sales and marketing personnel also are leanin...