[December 2006]
December SECURITY NEWS
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December 5, 2006
Hackers
Attack Unclassified Network at Naval War College
Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in
Newport, R.I., and the school's
network, including its e-mail and Web site, has been down for more
than two weeks as investigators
work to find the culprits.
December 11, 2006
Gangs
lure young to a life of cyber crime, claims McAfee
Organised crime gangs are targeting high-performing students to work
as hackers and malware
writers, a new report suggests.
December 11, 2006
Internet
criminals to step up "cyberwar" in 2007
Computer hackers will open a new front in the multi-billion pound
"cyberwar" in 2007, targeting
mobile phones, instant messaging and community Web sites such as MySpace,
security experts predict.
December 11, 2006
Cybercriminals
Target Small Biz
Many small businesses are more vulnerable to cybercrime than they
think, according to the 2005
Small Business Information Security Readiness Study of 1,000 small
businesses with
anywhere from 1 to 100 employees.
December
20, 2006
IT
worker arrested over hacking plot
Systems administrator who feared losing his job at a health firm has
been
arrested for allegedly installing malicious code on company servers
December
20, 2006
Triple
threat targets Word users
Malicious attackers prepare booby-trapped Word documents to catch
out users.
December
20, 2006
Hackers
call on Skype to spread Trojan
Malware authors are using Skype to help spread a pair of Trojan packages.
December 20, 2006
25
million personal records are exposed to theft and fraud annually
Almost, 25.5 million personal records have been exposed to potential
theft and fraud in the UK during the past year according to a new
study from DQM Group. This equates to the same number of identity
exposures as there are households in the land.
December 22, 2006
Report:
Identities of baseball stars stolen by dumpster diver
The identities of as many as 90 Major League Baseball players were
discovered at the home of a "dumpster diver" in Illinois,
according to published reports today.
December 22, 2006
Website
hit by denial of service attack
Online marketplace CafePress.com is currently the victim of a distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) assault.
December 22, 2006
Drunk
employees lose gadgets containing sensitive company information during
Christmas festivities
The survey revealed that 50 per cent of British respondents have lost
portable devices, including mobiles, USB drives and MP3 players containing
work-related information after a few glasses of wine; beaten only
by the Germans, 53 per cent of whom were guilty. It seems we could
learn a lesson from the Australians, who reported the fewest instances
of ARSE – just 10 per cent of respondents were guilty of company
data loss .
December
22, 2006
Jail
for hackers who infected 100,000 computers with a Trojan horse
Two men who infected more than 100,000 computers with a Trojan horse
that generated profits exceeding 12 million Euros have been sentenced
to jail.
