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[April 2008]

4/2/8
US reveals plans to hit back at cyber threats
The US Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these with physical attacks, according to a senior US general.

4/10/8
Online crime's impact spreads
There appears to be no end to the cybercrime wave despite daily headlines about the latest computer breach and the best efforts of hundreds of security companies.

4/20/8
Phishing Attacks Double in U.K.
Phishing attacks on U.K. consumers have more than doubled for the first quarter of this year, according to Apacs, the U.K. payment association.

4/8/8
Hackers infiltrate search engines, social networks
Consumers who use search engines, online social networks, browsers and the like face a gantlet of viruses and malicious software code, according to a cybersecurity report from Symantec, issued Tuesday as security experts gather here for the sprawling RSA Conference on tech security.

4/8/8
ID thieves drive down prices for stolen data
Fierce competition among identity thieves has driven the prices for stolen data down to bargain-basement levels, which has forced crooks to adopt mainstream business tactics to lure customers, according to a new report on Internet security threats.

[March 2008]

3/28/8
Feds indict ex-Mountain View man in ad scam
A former Mountain View man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Jose on charges that he used pop-up ads to dupe consumers into buying pirated Symantec Corp. security software in a scam that netted at least $13 million.

3/3/8
Survey Indicates Gap Between IT Security Skills' Supply and Demand

3/17/8
4.2 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen From Supermarket Chain 

3/3/8
Federal agencies boost scores in security

3/18/8
Harvard Applicants at Risk of ID Theft

3/14/8
Hackers trading in thousands of FTP server credentials, says Finjan

3/4/8
Major banks, telecos top identity-theft chart

 

[February 2008]

Security News Article of the month
Angry Employee Deletes All of Company's Data
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job - and with her boss's phone number listed - she assumed she was about to be fired.

2/8/8
Microsoft Shatters $900 Million Global Software Piracy Ring
Near-perfect knockoffs of 21 different Microsoft programs began surfacing around the world just over a decade ago.

1/17/8
Personal Information Lost on 650,000 Credit Cards
Holders After Computer Tape Goes Missing Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing.

2/9/8
Hacked Antivirus Site Delivers a Virus
The Web site of AvSoft Technologies attempts to install a virus on visiting PCs, security firm warns.

1/23/8
CIA: Hackers Shut Down Foreign Power Grid
Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference.

2/11/8
Biometrics to give increased area access at Heathrow
Biometric passenger checks have been launched at Heathrow that will allow domestic travelers to access more shops and restaurants.

[January 2008]

1/10/08
Spam topped the security threat list in 2007
Over 90 per cent of email was spam and the number of malware incidents multiplied by 16 last year, according to software company CA.

1/5/08
Mobile Devices: Sitting Ducks for Hackers
-Smartphones are poised to become the next major security challenge for businesses.