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Spammers get bullish on stocks
Massive e-mail campaigns aiming to pump up penny stock prices may soon make up half of all spam on the Internet. 2007-01-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11435 E-voting flaws put Florida in spotlight again A Republican congressman gets seated in the U.S. House of Representatives, but without a bug in the electronic ballot, the challenger would have won, voting experts say. 2007-01-08 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11433 Bots, breaches and bugs plague 2006 Vulnerabilities, especially in Web applications, take off, while bot nets and their controllers cause a jump in spam, and data breaches continue to worry companies and their customers. 2006-12-27 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11432 Stock scammer gets coal for the holidays The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission puts a suspected Russian brokerage-account thief's money on ice, after he allegedly used illicit access to people's portfolios to drive up stock prices. 2006-12-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11431 PHP security under scrutiny The departure of a security team member and recent data showing that PHP Web applications account for four out of every ten security flaws found in 2006 highlight the need for better protections, say experts. 2006-12-18 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11430 UCLA alerts 800,000 to data breach An unknown attacker uses a security flaw to access a restricted database containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on students, faculty and staff of the University of California, Los Angeles. 2006-12-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11429 MySpace teams to create sex-offender database The social networking site has paired up with an ID verification firm to build a national database of convicted sex offenders, a technology the service hopes will enable it to keep predators out of its community. 2006-12-05 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11428 Social sites' insecurity increasingly worrisome Security issues at MySpace and other sites have raised fears over protecting users against Trojan horse programs masquerading as user-created content. 2006-12-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11427 Bot spreads through antivirus, Windows flaws University campuses are dealing with a spate of infections caused by a bot program that compromises computers running unpatched versions of Windows and an older version of Symantec's antivirus software. 2006-11-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11426 Viruses go virtual Online worlds--from Second Life to the World of Warcraft--pave the way to a virtual future, replete with tailored viruses and digital diseases. 2006-11-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11425 |
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