Malware Open Season on Taxpayers

As any reader of this site knows, cybercriminals can steal your money not just by putting malware on your machine, but by phishing attacks too. Phishing attacks don’t just target online banking and e-payment systems, but almost any site which asks the user to input sensitive data. Sites run by...

Facebook Administrator Groups Hijacked

As of this morning, an anonymous group hijacked more than 200 Facebook groups and renamed them “Control Your Info”. Pasted on each group’s Wall was a message announcing that it had been “hijacked” and reminding members to be careful about controlling personal information on social networking site...

Dariks Boot and Nuke method of use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Any time a hard drive will have countless personal information, various business computer not to mention. When you want to put the computer when the second-hand processing off, Dariks Boot and Nuke can help on your busy. Of course,Dariks Boot and Nuke is certainly not the simple Erasure of data...

Security Risk: The Device Formerly Known as Your Hard Drive

Guest editorial by Paul Roberts In a weird kind of synchronicity, two stories recently have raised the specter of discarded not merely misplaced hard drives as the source of considerable consternation and legal wrangling. In the most serious incident, the Inspector General of the National Archive...

Operation Phish Phry Nets 100 Cyber Criminals

The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber-crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: kdepimlibs-4.3.1-1.fc11

Personal Information Management PIM libraries for the K Desktop Environment 4...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: kdepim-4.3.1-1.fc11

PIM Personal Information Manager applications, including: akregator: feed aggregator kmail: email client knode: newsreader knotes: sticky notes for the desktop kontact: integrated PIM management korganizer: journal, appointments, events, todos kpilot: HotSync=C2=AE software for Palm OS=C2=AE devi...

Three Indicted For Hack Attacks on Heartland, Hannaford

A Miami man and two Russians have been indicted usdoj.gov by a grand jury in New Jersey on charges of conspiring to commit some of the largest data breaches in U.S. history. Albert Gonzalez, 28, and the two still-unnamed Russian citizens are charged with running an international scheme to steal...

Microsoft Sues Alleged IM Spammers, Phishers

From CNet News Josh Lowensohn Microsoft is bringing out the big guns to combat instant message spam and phishing attacks done to users of its Live Messenger network. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in King County Superior Court in Seattle against Funmobile,...

More than 160,000 affected by data breach at UC Berkeley

Hackers had access to a database for about six months at the University of California at Berkeley and stole health-related data on more than 160,000 students and other people who used the school’s health services center. College officials said that the attack on the health center’s database was...

USPS probes possible mass security breach

CBS News is reporting word about another data breach potentially compromising the personal information of thousands of people. Companies Lexis Nexis and Investigative Professionals have sent up to 40,000 letters to customers whose “sensitive and personally identifiable” information may have been...

Job hunters must guard against identity theft

From Orlando Sentinel Richard Burnett With unemployment soaring, identity thieves are increasingly preying on unsuspecting job seekers by stealing personal information and trying to cash in on it. The scams run the gamut from fake help-wanted ads and job-search services to bogus resume-posting We...

Data thieves love tax time

From internetnews.com Alex Goldman Valentine’s Day is a the season for social engineering, as many people hope for a note from a mysterious and fascinating someone and are therefore more willing to open suspicious messages and attachments than at any other time. Unfortunately, it is now the seaso...

Conficker hits University of Utah

University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers tech.yahoo.com, including those at the school’s three hospitals. University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal...

CVE-2008-6573: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Avaya SIP Enablement Services SES in Avaya Avaya Communication Manager 3.x, 4.0, and 5.0 1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors related to profiles in the SIP Personal Information Manager SPIM in the web...

RedHat Update for evolution RHSA-2008:0177-01

Check for the Version of evolution OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for evolution RHSA-2008:0177-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

CentOS Update for evolution CESA-2008:0177 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of evolution OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for evolution CESA-2008:0177 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify...

Fedora Update for evolution FEDORA-2007-404

Check for the Version of evolution OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for evolution FEDORA-2007-404 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CentOS Update for evolution CESA-2008:0177 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of evolution OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for evolution CESA-2008:0177 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify...

Fedora Update for kdepim FEDORA-2007-2985

Check for the Version of kdepim OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kdepim FEDORA-2007-2985 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...