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IT Security Highlights March 2 2010
By Kelli Tarala | March 3, 2010
Wyndham Hotels hacked again
International hotel group Wyndham Hotels and Resorts has suffered yet another serious data breach after hackers broke into its computer systems and stole customer names and payment card information. An open letter posted on the firm’s site said that the hotel group discovered the attack on one of its data centers in late January.
Full Story: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2258650/wyndham-hotels-hacked-again
Microsoft warns over rogue Security Essentials
Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials. The fake Security essentials 2010 installs a fake virus scanner on your machine and monitors and blocks processes it doesn’t like. The software will also block access to websites of antivirus and malware companies and flag up a warning message. You can see the list of blocked sites here.
Full Story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/26/microsoft_security_essentials_rogue/
State of Application Security: Nearly 60 percent of Apps Fail first security test
Most software applications remain riddled with security holes, according to a new report released today about the actual security quality of all types of software. Around 58 percent of the applications tested by application security testing service provider Veracode in the past year-and-a-half failed to achieve a successful rating in their first round of testing.
Vericode Report: http://www.veracode.com/reports/index.html
New zero-day involves IE, puts Windows XP users at Risk
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed it’s investigating an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers could exploit to plant malware on Windows XP machines running Internet Explorer (IE). The flaw could be used by attackers to inject malicious code onto victims’ PCs. Users running IE7 or the newer IE8 are at risk.
Full Story:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030110-new-zero-day-involves-ie-puts.html?hpg1=bn
Grum and Rustock botnets drive spam to new levels
Two highly active botnets have pushed spam levels up by five per cent this month, according to Symantec. The company’s MessageLabs branch, now called Symantec Hosted Services, said in a new report that spam accounted for 89.4 percent of email traffic in February, an increase of 5.5 per cent over last month.
Full Story: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2258689/pair-botnets-drive-spam-levels
Read the Complete DHS Report
www.enclavesecurity.com/blogsresources/cdr_030210.pdf
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