computer security
July 26, 2010 - 8:27am | Fraud | News
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In a move
to boost interest in the security field, the UK's Cyber Security Challenge has
announced the launch of computer security exercises.
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exercises are to take place later this year, covering network defense, Web
site vulnerability detection and a forensics challenge. |
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May 22, 2009 - 8:09am | News | Other themes
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Kaspersky Lab disclosed this week that it has found a malware on a brand new Windows XP netbook.
The company reported that when Kaspersky developers installed their recently-released Security for Ultra Portables on a brand new M&A Companion Touch netbook purchased for testing, they found three pieces of malware. Further checking resulted in multiple Windows system restore points, typically an indication that the machine had been updated with new drivers or software had been installed before it left the factory.
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May 21, 2009 - 6:08am | Fraud | News
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Researchers from Symantec have disclosed that Conficker worm was still infecting about 50,000 new PCs each day, with Brazil and India being hit the hardest.
Conficker began spreading late last year. It took advantage of the flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system and mainly was “traveling” through networks, and using removable storage devices. |
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May 19, 2009 - 7:11am | Fraud | News
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It was announced that the vulnerability of Microsoft's Internet Information Services 6 Web-server software that was posted to the Full Disclosure security mailing list by a security researcher Nikolaos Rangos, was being used for online attacks.
IIS 6 users who have enabled the WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) protocols, used to share documents via the Web were forecasted to be subject to attacks. |
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May 15, 2009 - 1:32pm | News | Other themes
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According to Associated Press, McAfee Inc., a computer security company, has announced today it would buy privately owned Solidcore Systems Inc. for about $33 million. Besides the upfront payment, the deal also includes another $14 million if certain performance targets are met.
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May 11, 2009 - 9:09am | News
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Spammers have now gone back to a years-old tactic of using images for their messages, a security researcher warned.
Image spam had its peak in late 2006 and early 2007, and was successful at slipping through filters, which were designed only to parse text and look for such things as links. However, it's surprising it is coming back, as spammers know that anti-spam vendors have already figured out how to detect that type of junk mail. Nevertheless, image-based spam accounted for about 25% of all spam at the end of last month.
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May 7, 2009 - 9:28am | Figures | News
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Symantec posted a US$249 million loss for the quarter ending April 3, blaming it on a slowdown in sales of its security and compliance products and weakness in international currencies. Sales of the company made $1.47 billion for that quarter, which is about 5 percent less than a year-ago.
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May 5, 2009 - 8:29am | Fraud | News
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Security researchers have infiltrated the Torpig botnet which had stolen 70 GB worth of data in 10 days. It was revealed that Torpig bots have stolen more than 8,300 credentials used to login to 410 different financial institutions, states a research team from the University of California at Santa Barbara. It is also known that over 21 percent of the accounts belonged to PayPal users.
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April 29, 2009 - 8:17am | Fraud | News
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Adobe Systems Inc confirmed that it was investigating reports on Adobe Reader, its popular PDF viewing software, containing a critical vulnerability.
SecurityFocus site, that disclosed the bug first this week, posted a link to proof-of-concept attack code, saying the issue can be exploited by an attacker “to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application." The site also noted that Reader 9.1 and Reader 8.1.4 were vulnerable, the Linux versions definitely contained the bug, and that versions for other platforms may be at risk as well.
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April 27, 2009 - 9:44am | Fraud | News
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Ed Skoudis, a senior security consultant for InGuardians, and Johannes Ullrich, the CTO of the SANS Internet Storm Center, say hackers continue to penetrate many more company networks than administrators admit. They offer a list of the most effective exploits used to gain entry.
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April 22, 2009 - 9:03am | News | Other themes
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Cisco Systems Inc has introduced new network security products, aimed at protecting companies' Web-based software and services from attacks.
Cisco has entered a new area of growth, the area of collaborative software and “cloud computing”. “Cloud computing” happens when companies move more of their software and services online, in order to save space and computing power. However, such actions are subject to viruses and external attacks on corporate data and computer systems.
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