Mar
20
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting article about determining if your PC is one of the many used for the unscrupulous purposes of Botnet. What is Botnet? The ReadWriteWeb article has a video that does a good job of describing Botnet and explaining that it is indeed unscrupulous.
Mar
16
The Associated Press has an article indicating that Google will be using resources from their acquisition of DoubleClick (an internet advertising company) to track user activity. Yahoo! and Microsoft have been tracking browsing habits for some time, but there is concern that Google’s dominant market position may represent a privacy issue.
UPDATE: The Consumerist posted some tips on how to opt out of Google’s interest based adverisements.
Michigan’s credit union regulator has issued a cease-and-desist order against a fake online credit union, doing business as Communal CU of Dearborn.
Feb
12
SitePoint.com has an article entitled Passwords: Most People Do It Wrong that reveals some interesting research about common passwords and user habbits.
Quick: What’s your password? Is it 123456? Is it password? Is it abc123? Is it your first name? Surprisingly, for a large number of users, those are the types of words being picked to safeguard private accounts. Not surprisingly, that’s a bad thing.
We’d like to take this opportunity to remind you about the importance of using strong passwords, and using different passwords for different sites you frequent so that if one is compromised your accounts aren’t all compromised. In Windows, we like to use Password Safe to generate and remember strong passwords. Since it remembers your passwords you can use harder to crack passwords. Give it a try today!
Are you confident that your current security solutions can handle today’s blended attacks and emerging Web 2.0 threats? According to recent research by Websense Security Labs™, 90 percent of all unsolicited emails contain links to spam or malicious Web sites and almost 80 percent of malicious Web sites turn out to be legitimate sites that are compromised by attackers.
Is your IT department equipped to tackle the latest attacks?
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State of Internet Security Q3-Q4, 2008 Highlights:
- A look back at changes in the threat Webscape over the last six-month period
- A look at parallel trends, where hackers and business adopt Web 2.0 for very different purposes
- A look forward at how best to prepare for hacker innovation in 2009
You’re not alone if you’re still putting finishing touches on New Year’s resolutions. And in today’s troubled economy, there is one resolution worth fighting for: Getting your finances in shape (SmartMoney.com Dec. 15).
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The IRS is not trying to e-mail you.
Albany Times Union, NY - Dec 29, 2008 A Times Union colleague received a junk e-mail that pretended to come from the IRS. This message asks for sensitive information like bank account numbers, … |
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Regulators Issue New ID Theft Awareness Brochure
BankInfoSecurity.com, NJ - Dec 24, 2008 … National Credit Union Administration and Office of Thrift Supervision. The brochure's main focus is on phishing, detailing how the ploy works and how to … Federal Financial Regulators Issue Revised Identity Theft Brochure Media Newswire (press release) Regulators' ID theft-awareness brochure available SmartBrief Publication offers tips on preventing identity theft Mid Columbia Tri City Herald Shreveport Times all 6 news articles |
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Holiday season busy one for phishers
Times of the Internet, Ohio - Dec 17, 2008 There's a component of cybercrime that is seasonally variable, Michael Barrett, chief information officer at PayPal, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. … |
Nov
12
Websense® Security Labs™ has received reports of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code circulating in the wild, exploiting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader 8.1.2, and Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2.
The flaw is a stack buffer overflow that results when parsing specially crafted PDF files (CVE-2008-2992). Successful exploitation allows the attacker the same level of permission rights to the desktop as the victim who opened the PDF file.
We urge customers to update to the latest version of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. We will continue to monitor the development of this threat. Read more