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Federal agencies miss deadline on secure configs
The U.S. government has made progress on moving to a standard configuration for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems, but work remains. 2008-02-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11505 Universities fend off phishing attacks Online fraudsters send e-mail messages that masquerade as help-desk requests for usernames and passwords. 2008-02-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11504 Estonia fines man for DDoS attacks The northern European country levies a $1,600 fine against an ethnic Russian man convicted of helping organize distributed denial-of-service attacks against government Web sites. 2008-01-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11503 Antivirus firms, test labs to form standards group The makers of antivirus software as well as independent and media-sponsored testing labs have agreed to create an industry group to standardize on methods of evaluating anti-malware programs. 2008-01-25 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11502 Legitimate sites serving up stealthy attacks The Random JS infection kit serves up malicious code that hides itself by attempting to compromise each visitor only once and using a different file name each time. 2008-01-14 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11501 Xbox Live account theft puts users at risk Hackers take over the Xbox Live account of a celebrity gamer and make off with a prized piece of virtual armor. Does the Microsoft online service put the security of its users at risk? 2008-01-10 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11500 Malware hitches a ride on digital devices Some consumers reported that their holiday gifts came with an unwelcome passenger, a Trojan horse. Infections at the factory and in retail stores will likely become more common. 2008-01-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11499 Senate delays vote on spy bill A bill that would modernize the United States' legal framework for eavesdropping and grant telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for wiretapping customers will have to wait until January. 2007-12-18 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11498 Researchers reverse Netflix anonymization Two computer scientists show that a large set of transactional data poses privacy risks by finding a way to link movie ratings from the Netflix Prize dataset to publicly available information. 2007-12-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497 Group drafts rules to nix credit-card storage The organization responsible for technical and best-practice standards in the payment industry plans to require the makers of merchant software to certify that their programs do not store sensitive data. 2007-11-19 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11496 |
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