Swede, US Citizen Accused of Running Scareware Scam

An international cyber crime group is accused of luring Internet users in more than 60 countries to buy more than one million bogus software products, causing victims to lose more than $100 million.

The charges allege a Cincinnati-area man and two other men believed to be living overseas deceived Internet users into believing their computers were infected with malware or had other critical errors. To solve the problem,…

FISMA II Looks to Institute Performance-Based Metrics

With 40 some pieces of cybersecurity legislation pending before Congress, FISMA II is one that has drawn significant attention from the government-contracting world. While most government agencies and federal contractors learned to check the box and implement whatever measures the act set as standards the first time around, FISMA II will demand more than that: Instead of being compliance…

UA Student Pleads Guilty to Launching Botnet Attacks

A former undergraduate at the University of Akron pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he hacked into the school’s computer system to launch botnet attacks.

Mitchell L. Frost of Ohio was charged with one count of causing damage to a protected computer system and one count of possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices. He could be sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined up to…

Sameer Bhalotra to Back Up Howard Schmidt?

There have been some whispers in the capital that White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt will shortly name Sameer Bhalotra as deputy cybersecurity coordinator. Bhalotra is the senior cybersecurity staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and has held the position since 2007.

A report by Adam Ross of the SANS Institute…

Jobs Site in UK Gets Hacked

Jobs sites run by Trinity Mirror Group have been hacked, according to a blog post by the company. JobSearch.co.uk and jobs.mirror.co.uk were both hacked on May 19.

“Our security systems have detected a concerted and sophisticated attempt this afternoon to hack into user accounts on our technology platform,” according to the post. “We are urgently investigating whether they have obtained any data but can confirm that…

Japanese Police Arrest Alleged Spammers

Police in Japan have arrested two men  suspected of being involved in an alleged Hentai-themed malware scam campaign. Oka Akira, 27, from Tokyo and an unnamed 20-year-old are accused of defrauding tens of thousands of yen from a minority of their 5,000 targets.

The pair stand accused of posting a fake version of a Hentai game onto file sharing websites. The alleged game installer required users to enter a series…

Bob Brammer Leads Panel Discussion on Cyber R&D Collaboration

During the Annual Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) STRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium, Dr. Bob Brammer, Northrop Grumman Information Systems Sector vice president and chief technology officer, led a panel that called for increased collaboration in cybersecurity research.

The panel also included Dr. Tom Knight, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Dr. …

Mike Mullen: Cyber Threat Needs to be Addressed ‘Very, Very Rapidly’

As cyberspace will change how America fights in the next two decades, leaders at all levels need to understand the threats and help the military deal with them, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Calling cyberspace “a global common in which we do not enjoy unmatched advantage, where international norms are the easiest to flout without consequence, and upon which…

Featured Job- Cyber Capture Manager with Northrop Grumman

Job Description Description: Northrop Grumman is seeking a Capture Manager that will support the Information Operations Operating Unit of the Cyber and SIGINT Systems (C&SS) Business Unit in the Intelligence Systems Division. The C&SS BU is a critical participant in the Northrop Grumman Information Systems Sector’s Cyber Business Strategy. As part of the capture responsibilities, the candidate will follow the NGIS Business Acquisition Process (BAP) for all capture…

44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials Discovered

If you are an online gamer–think World of Warcraft and Aion–better get that password changed ASAP: Symantec has discovered a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts, validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers.

The database server uncovered by Symantec appears to be the heart of the operation, part of a distributed password checker targeting Chinese gaming websites. The stolen login credentials are from online games…