Security News - Q3 2007
[September 2007]
9.28.7 - Phishing likely to blame for eBay members' data theft
9.20.7 - Hacker training sold on eBay
9.20.7 - Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients
9.17.7 - Torrent of spam likely to hit 6.3 million TD Ameritrade hack victims
9.17.7 - Computer Science Grad Convicted Of Hacking Into Texas A&M
9.5.7
Update: Critical bugs plague QuickBooks' online service, warns US-CERT
But puzzled Intuit says it updated the Web-based software back in March
9.10.7
Pump-and-dump spam nets scammers $20 million
Men plead guilty to stock-manipulation scheme, face up to 10 years each
9.10.7
IT Manager Convicted of Hacking Ex-Employer
A former technical services manager at the Council of Community Clinics in San Diego faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted in federal court of hacking into the nonprofit organization's computers and sabotaging patient data.
9.10.7
Offshore worker breaks into Caterpillar server in U.S, steals 4,000 docs
He allegedly used another worker's username and password
9.10.7
Foreign governments hack New Zealand government computers
Government computer systems have been hacked into by foreign governments, the chief of New Zealand's intelligence agency says.
9.11.7
Skype Users Slammed by New Virus
Skype users were seeing variations of that innocent-seeming text message Monday and Tuesday, as a virus targeted the peer-to-peer telephony network.
9.12.7
Ex-FBI snitch in S.F. indicted in hacking of financial institutions
An ex-informant for the FBI in San Francisco has been indicted on charges that he hacked into computers belonging to banks and credit-card processing computers to steal account information that he sold to others.
[August 2007]
Keeping Up with Government Regulations
HIPAA. SOX. GLBA. Today, the information security field is filled with a veritable alphabet soup of government regulations, and the list continues to grow.
How do those in the field keep up with these regulations?
8.24.7
FAQ: The Monster.com mess
Job search site looting goes back weeks, maybe months
[July 2007]
7/9/7
Precision e-mail attack targets senior execs
A deluge of precisely targeted spam designed to harvest intellectual
property from companies worldwide was launched on 26 June, security
experts have revealed.
7/6/7
Man-in-the-middle
attacks on the rise
Banks and retailers increasingly targeted by fraudsters using this
latest
spin on a phishing scam.
7/6/7
90%
of corporate e-mail in the past quarter was spam
During the second quarter of 2007, spam accounted for more than 90%
of
corporate mail received. This data has been compiled from companies
who
have contracted TrustLayer Mail, Panda's managed security service.
7/4/7
Fraud
by 'phishing,' 'vishing' and theft
Pre-approved credit applications popular targets for criminals
Several types of identity-theft schemes can leave unsuspecting Canadians
with large bank loans in their names, empty bank accounts, and massive
credit card charges.
