Blog Posts Tagged with "Headlines"
Majority of Employees Plan to Steal Company Data
November 24, 2010 Added by:Headlines
A new study reveals an alarming statistic: The majority of workers plan on stealing company data if and when they leave their current positions. The survey of 1000 white collar employees conducted by Imperva shows that more than two-thirds are willing to take everything from client and customer records to the intellectual property of their employer...
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Digital Certificates and Mobile Malware Top Threat List
November 23, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Stolen digital certificates and malware infested applications aimed at the growing smartphone and tablet markets top the eight biggest threats for 2011. The frequency of encounters with cyber miscreants may be on the rise as well with the proliferation of Malware as a Service...
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Bogus Chinese Processors Used in Missile Systems
November 23, 2010 Added by:Headlines
An administrator at VisionTech plead guilty to charges she assisted in selling sub-grade Chinese computer processors to DoD contractors for use in U.S. military weapons systems. Companies that bought the components include Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Missile Systems, and BAE Systems...
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Over Five Million Now Victims of Healthcare Breaches
November 23, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The Department of Health and Human Services released statistics on health information breaches that show a total of 5.35 million records have been compromised since September 2009. One of the most recent breaches at Keystone/AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plans involved over 280,000 records...
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Two-Thirds of Companies Breached in Past Year
November 23, 2010 Added by:Headlines
CompTIA's 8th Annual Global Security Trends Study found 63% of U.S. enterprises where hit by at least one security breach in the past year. Half of the companies that reported a security breach characterized the event as serious, impacting the company financially or hindering operations...
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Phishing Scammers Getting a Jump on Tax Season
November 22, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Recent alerts concern emails purported to be sent from the Electronic Funds Transfer Payment System which inform the recipient that there is a problem with their tax payments. The email contains a link to a spoofed website that contains malicious malware that will infect the visitor's computer...
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Father of the Web Slams Social Media and Apple
November 22, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. The Web may be ours, but unfortunately it is is ours much in the same way that Democracy is. And like Democracy, we may already be powerless to protect it from the powerful, well-monied, and thoroughly entrenched interests...
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Are Security Efforts Decreasing Successful DoD Hacks?
November 22, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Other reports indicate that the frequency of attacks as a whole are on the uptick. Given the weight of the evidence concerning current trends, the most likely explanation is that the decrease is due to a semantic change in the reporting standards used at the DoD as opposed to a decrease in the attacks...
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DHS and DoD Say Threat of Cyber Attack is Imminent
November 22, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates recently described the threat of cyber attack as huge when addressing The Wall Street Journal's CEO council. Gates also revealed plans for the the DHS to engage the NSA in more domestic cyber security operations. Here is a transcript of Gates' statements...
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Kroxxu Botnet Infects One Hundred Thousand Domains
November 21, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The malware is geared to steal File transfer Protocol (FTP) password information, allowing its creators to access, alter and control websites. The malicious code also can render URL blocking tools ineffective, letting infected users browse websites that would otherwise not be white-listed...
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People Remain the Number One Threat to Security
November 21, 2010 Added by:Headlines
All the security, training, planning and education in the world can not seem to defend against the human element, and this fact presents the single largest obstacle to security for individuals, enterprise, and government. Here are just a few examples from this week alone...
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US Government is Headhunting Cyber Warriors
November 20, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Even if there were a systemic change in the way of we prepare kids for technology careers, the US would still be a generation behind nations in Asia and Europe. The result could be the loss of our competitive edge in the marketplace, and result in the loss of our status a cyber superpower...
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Google and Yahoo Allow Gov Surveillance For a Price
November 19, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian did some snooping of his own through the Freedom of Information Act and found that Google charged the DEA $25 per case for access to user data. Yahoo, in an ongoing to effort to best Google at something, charged the agency $29 per case...
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Researchers Find Weakness in ZeroAccess Rootkit
November 19, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Though the maleware is not as prevalent as other threats, it has caught the attention of security pros because it is sophisticated, difficult to detect, and nearly impossible to remove without damaging the infected operating system. ZeroAccess acts as a conduit to download and execute other malware...
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Legislation to Give DHS Power Over Private Networks
November 19, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Proposed legislation in the House of Representatives would give the Department of Homeland Security new authority to enforce cyber security standards aimed at shoring up private sector computer networks considered critical to national security...
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Denial of Service Attacks Remain Popular Tactic
November 18, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Denial of Service (DoS) has often been used to as a tool send a message to the subjects of the attacks, and recent events indicate the use of the tactic to strategically promote the agendas of one group over those of another is on the upswing...
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