[January 2007]
January SECURITY NEWS
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January 02, 2007
Hackers
Spam 'Happy New Year' Worm
Israeli security company Commtouch reported that at times, Tibs-infected
messages made up nearly 12% of all e-mail sent worldwide.
January
05, 2007
Security
bug found in PDF reader
Web users are being urged to upgrade their Adobe reader software as
a
security flaw is found in older versions of the program.
January
17, 2007
Los
Angeles Man, First American Convicted Under Anti-Spam Law, Faces Years
in Prison
A man faces a sentence of up to 101 years in federal prison after
being the first person in the U.S.
convicted under a federal anti-spam law, authorities said
January 18, 2007
TJX
Shoppers' Data Stolen From Network
TJX Cos., operator of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls discount stores, said
Wednesday its computer
systems were hacked late last year and customer data has been stolen.
January 19, 2007
Hackers
steal $35,000 from customers of federal savings plan
Thieves used keylogging software to break into accounts of Thrift
Savings
Plan. In late December, the computers of several TSP participants
were infected
with keylogging software that allowed criminals to record all keystrokes
made by participants without their knowledge. The hackers also retrieved
the
customers' TSP personal identification number and other account information,
according to a statement on the TSP Web site. However, the TSP's system
was
not breached, the company said.
January
22, 2007
Google
antiphishing site reveals names, passwords
Google Inc. has removed a few usernames and passwords posted inadvertently
to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on
the Web,
the Mountain View, California, company said Monday.
January 23, 2007
Report:
U.S. Still World's Spam Leader
Although Sophos said the U.S. has made progress in its efforts to
reduce
spam-relaying, the security firm pointed out that new spam techniques
are
making it more difficult to block the unsolicited e-mail; specifically,
image-based spam -- spam that conveys its message through an embedded
graphic rather than merely text -- is on the rise.
January
24, 2007
Data
breach at TJX leads to fraudulent card use
Credit and debit cards that were compromised in the recently disclosed
security breach at TJX Companies Inc. are being fraudulently used
in several
states in the U.S. and even overseas, the Massachusetts Bankers Association
(MBA) said today.
January
26, 2007
'Storm
Worm' Continues to Spread Around Globe
Experts are forecasting an increase in spam as a result of the "Storm"
worm
that sent out six separate waves containing hundreds of thousands
of e-mails
this past weekend, and continues to touch down on computers worldwide.
January
26, 2007
MySpace
Asked GoDaddy To Drop SecLists
At the request of MySpace, domain registrar GoDaddy removed DNS records
for
SecLists.org after the security site published a list of 56,000 MySpace
usernames and passwords that has been circulating the Internet.
January
26, 2007
Customers
want tougher online banking security
A poll conducted by RSA, the security division of EMC, suggests that
online
banking customers are becoming more concerned about security issues,
and
would like banks to take more steps to combat fraud.
January
26, 2007
Symantec
warns of new zero-day Word attack
Hackers are exploiting a new, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft
Corp.
Word that could allow them to take control of a victim's computer,
Symantec
Corp. has warned.
January 30, 2007
Vermont
state computer containing information on 70,000 residents is hacked
A state computer containing names, Social Security numbers and bank
account information for 70,000 Vermont residents was hacked into by
a remote user sometime before early December, the state said Monday.
January 31, 2007
Virus
emails soar by a factor of 20
Hackers and spammers have "raised their onslaught" with
two global email-borne virus attacks launched in December and January....The
attacks were so large that they drove up the level of viruses up by
a factor of 20 compared with usual activity, according to data from
security firm Postini.
