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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Ford Motor rolls out new security features to prevent car-hacking
Ford Motor will debut vehicles with built-in WiFi — along with enhanced security features to prevent data breaches via its new cars. Ford has offered the Sync technology service it co-developed with Microsoft in most of its Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles since 2008. The WiFi [...]
IT Security Highlights March 9 2010
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Energizer Bunny’s software infects PCs
The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security’s US-CERT said on March 5. According to researchers at US-CERT, software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC. The Energizer DUO, a USB-powered nickel-metal [...]
IT Security Highlights March 5 2010
Monday, March 8th, 2010Pennsylvania’s CISO Witnesses Hack like no Other
Pennsylvania’s chief information security officer has seen some strange attempts to hack the commonwealth’s IT systems, but none like the one he witnessed last weekend. At a RSA Conference panel on state cybersecurity on Wednesday:, he explained, “We saw thousands of hits on our Department of Transportation driver license [...]
IT Security Highlights March 4th 2010
Friday, March 5th, 2010Microsoft wants to put infected PCs in Rubber Room
A top Microsoft executive is floating the idea of creating mandatory quarantines for computers with malware infections that pose a risk to internet users. Scott Charney is the latest to champion the idea that infected PC users should be put in their own rubber room, so the [...]
IT Security Highlights March 3rd 2010
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Resembling ‘cartels,’ hackers become more industrialized
Hackers are more “industrialized” than ever before and hacking communities now resemble an organized “drug cartel”, according to a report released on March 1. Imperva, a data security company, found that today’s cybercrime industry has transformed and automated itself to mimic the 19th century industrial revolution, which accelerated assembly from [...]
IT Security Highlights March 2 2010
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Wyndham 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 [...]
IT Security Highlights from DHS Report March 1 2010
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Attackers improving their aim against top brands
Online criminals are becoming increasingly successful in circumventing enterprise defenses and executing targeted attacks on leading Web brands, according to a study released on February 24. Phishing remains one of the Web’s most popular attack methods, according to Cyveillance’s 2H 2009 Cyber Intelligence Report.
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Russian cyber-hackers stopped by local bank
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IT Security Highlights from DHS 1-06-2010
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Symantec Product Hits End-of-Decade Snafu
Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date. Antivirus, antispyware and intrusion protection updates with a date after Dec. 31, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. are considered out of date by the software. The problem affects the Endpoint Protection v11.x and v12.x [...]
IT Security Highlights from DHS Report 1-05-2010
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Cybercrooks Stalk Small Businesses that Bank Online
The American Bankers Association and the FBI are advising small and mid-size businesses that conduct financial transactions over the Internet to dedicate a separate PC used exclusively for online banking. Why? Cybercriminals launched multiple “banking Trojans” — malicious programs that enable them to surreptitiously access and manipulate online banking [...]
IT Security Highlights from DHS Report 1-4-2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010Fake Emails Concerning H1N1 Registrations
Fake emails from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging people to sign up for swine flu vaccine registrations. Officials at the CDC this week released an advisory about the e-mails, which call for adults to create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) vaccination profile on the cdc.gov Web [...]