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Researcher argues for CERTs with teeth
It's time to put a target on the cybercriminals behind botnets and other malware, and giving national Computer Emergency Response Teams more power would help, says one security professional. 2009-04-21 Read more ... | 4 Comment(s) | Post Comment NSA oversteps relaxed wiretapping laws A recent investigation into the National Security Agency's electronic eavesdropping activities has found that the federal agency has exceeded its authority to wiretap Americans, the New York Times reports. 2009-04-17 Read more ... | 2 Comment(s) | Post Comment Swedish courts find The Pirate Bay guilty Four men linked to the file-sharing site are sentenced to a year each in prison and must pay approximately $3.5 million in fines. 2009-04-17 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Organized crime focuses on the big score Cybercriminals look to steal even more sensitive data and score big in 2008, according to an analysis of 90 data breaches handled by Verizon Business. 2009-04-16 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft patches a passel of flaws The software giant releases eight patches to fix more than a score of vulnerabilities, including critical issues in Internet Explorer, Office, DirectX and the Windows HTTP server. 2009-04-14 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Twitter targeted by XSS worms Snippets of Javascript code exploit a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability to spread throughout the microblogging network over the weekend. 2009-04-13 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Power grid's vulnerability no surprise Reports of state-sponsored hackers reconnoitering electric companies garner a collective yawn from the security community. 2009-04-11 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Cable sabotage knocks out Bay Area networks Vandals cut ten cables in four South San Francisco Bay locations, knocking out phone and Internet service to tens of thousands of customers as well as ATM and wireless networks. 2009-04-10 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment Conficker gang updates worm via peer-to-peer While the mainstream media hyped the April 1 changeover for the Conficker worm, its creators waited nearly a week to introduce an update. 2009-04-09 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Rogue security apps worry Microsoft most The software giant releases a survey of its security data, finding that rogue software tops its list of threats and that more attackers are targeting third-party applications. 2009-04-08 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Tenuous trail leads from GhostNet to hacker An e-mail address in the GhostNet report leads two researchers to a seemingly low-level Chinese hacker, but an author of the original report stresses the criminal is likely unrelated to the massive surveillance network. 2009-04-03 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Senators ready bills to beef up cybersecurity Deciding not to wait for the Obama administration to complete a 60-day review, two senators have drafted bills to create a top advisory post in the White House and license cybersecurity professionals. 2009-04-01 Read more ... | 8 Comment(s) | Post Comment Spam back up to pre-McColo levels Four months after ISPs disconnected hosting provider McColo, the volume of junk e-mail has returned to its previous levels, according to Google. 2009-03-31 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Academics peer inside cyber espionage net University and industry researchers team up to track the extent of a malicious network of surveillance software, dubbed GhostNet, linked to China. 2009-03-30 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Researchers find way to detect Conficker The fight against the widespread worm gains a significant weapon, after the Honeynet Project discovers that the program makes changes in its infected hosts detectable on the network. 2009-03-30 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Conficker's capabilities worry researchers Security researchers' analysis of the latest variant of the widespread worm highlight the technical prowess of its programmers and the danger that comes with its expanded domain scanning. 2009-03-27 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Security projects aim for Summer of Code For students interested in getting into security, Google's Summer of Code may be the ticket. 2009-03-26 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment No more bugs for free, researchers say Three well-known security researchers argue that flaw finders should get paid for vulnerabilities. 2009-03-24 Read more ... | 14 Comment(s) | Post Comment Smart-grid firms need security education Researchers find serious vulnerabilities in the connected devices that will monitor and control infrastructure, frequently referred to as the "smart grid." 2009-03-24 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Cybercriminals optimize search for cash A Web security firm finds signs that fraudsters who help attract victims to malicious Web sites are bringing in unhealthy sums of cash. 2009-03-23 Read more ... | 1 Comment(s) | Post Comment China more friend than foe, says white hat The nation's security community is more concerned with weaknesses in its own computer networks than leveling attacks at the United States, a Chinese security researcher says. 2009-03-20 Read more ... | 7 Comment(s) | Post Comment Researchers aim low to root hardware Two exploit writers describe ways to overwrite a computer's low-level operating instructions, allowing persistent rootkits to be created that can survive a hard-disk wipe. 2009-03-19 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft to release exploitability tool The software giant plans to release a tool that classifies software bugs based on their crash information and estimates the security impact of the issues. 2009-03-18 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Analyst: Security elusive in the "cloud" The worldwide economic slowdown has many companies looking to outsource various aspects of their business to the Internet "cloud." Will security suffer? 2009-03-16 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment Better metrics needed for security, says expert Companies are better off collecting as many metrics as possible and then trying to find the proper measures of security, says a former DHS cyber chief. 2009-03-13 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Cyber conflict? More like censorship Many of the international denial-of-service attacks of the last decade amount to nationalist hackers silencing perceived enemies, says one network security specialist. 2009-03-12 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft patches image, DNS flaws The software giant closes eight security holes, including a single critical flaw in the way the Windows kernel handles image files. 2009-03-10 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment Conficker update attempts to foil Cabal A module that updates the Conficker worm could cause problems for the group that wants to shutdown the would-be botnet. 2009-03-09 Read more ... | 4 Comment(s) | Post Comment Cybersecurity chief resigns, dings NSA The director of the National Cybersecurity Center tenders his resignation, blaming problems on a lack of support from the Department of Homeland Security and meddling by the National Security Agency. 2009-03-07 Read more ... | 3 Comment(s) | Post Comment White House to wrap up cyber review in April Proposed changes will focus on defending cyber infrastructure and services without weakening civil liberties, a top advisor to the President Obama states. 2009-03-06 Read more ... | 0 Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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