Epsilon Data Breach Could Net Increased Phishing Victims
The Better Business Bureau is warning businesses and consumers to be cautions of potentially malicious emails stemming from what some security experts consider as one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history. Epsilon’s parent company Alliance Data Systems Corporation yesterday reaffirmed that no personal identifiable information was compromised, such as Social Security Numbers, credit [...]
A Texan is accused of organizing a ruse using a Russian hacker and a spam campaign to artificially inflate the value of certain stocks, according to the Justice Department. Christopher Rad, 42, was arrested and charged yesterday with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and transmit commercial email messages with fraudulent information. According [...]
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Viruses, Trojans, data-stealing malware, and data leaks were rated as big IT concerns among small businesses, according to Trend Micro‘s 2010 corporate end user survey. A total of 1,600 end users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan were polled. On average, 63 percent of small businesses were most concerned by viruses, [...]
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While most consumers know about the risks associated with using the Internet and engaging in e-commerce, the majority still relies on inadequate measures to protect their privacy and identity, according to a new survey by Anonymizer, Inc. An overwhelming majority of respondents believed a firewall and an anti-virus software offered adequate protection for their identity [...]
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Finnish network solutions provider Stonesoft Corporation has discovered a new security threat called Advanced Evasion Techniques, which can circumvent current network security devices undetected. Advanced Evasion Techniques can also transport already-known malware or phishing programs, worms and viruses, which otherwise would be detectable and stoppable by network security systems. Stonesoft has reported the threat posed [...]
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Man’s Vendetta, DDoS Attacks against ‘Perverted Justice’ Land Him a Guilty Verdict
September 27, 2010 1 CommentA computer programmer was last week convicted of launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers around the world and directed them to attack media outlets that republished stories mentioning him. After a six-day trial, the jury returned a guilty verdict against Bruce Raisley of Kansas City, Miss. Raisley was convicted of launching a malicious [...]
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Vampires and werewolves are an undoubtedly popular theme for filmmakers — and cyber criminals. With the third installment of the “Twilight” series, cyber crooks have discovered a way to use the franchise’s popularity to gain access to people’s computers by poisoning common search results and then infecting users’ computers with malware. Norton reported that some [...]
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