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Symantec Security Response Weblog: It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life

It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life It’s not very far into 2008 and sadly we are already seeing some of our predictions on the security trends of 2008 come true. I blogged earlier that our security analyses expected to see old style cybercrimes turn up in virtual worlds. While it’s not clear if any crime...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-28-2008
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Red Cross money mule recruitment - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Red Cross money mule recruitment Posted by Mikko @ 20:43 GMT | Money mule recruitment is getting more and more blatant. We just ran across a spam run that uses Red Cross as the lure to recruit people for money laundering. Example below (emphasis ours): From: American Red Cross (glurp@sxhighway.gov.cn...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-20-2007
Filed under: In the News, Spam\Phishing, Security
Symantec Security Response Weblog: Bot Roast II completed

Bot Roast II completed On November 29 the FBI announced the results of its second Bot Roast ( see the FBI release ). This is the FBI operation responsible for hunting out and attempting to bring to justice cyber criminals involved in cultivating botnets. These botnets, which can call home to millions...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-03-2007
Filed under: In the News, Internet News, Internet Hacks, Security
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Juvenile Hacker Infiltrates U.S. Emergency System

Juvenile Hacker Infiltrates U.S. Emergency System Thursday October 18, 2007 at 7:37 am CST Posted by Hiep Dang Trackback A few weeks ago, in my colleague Lysa Myers’ blog Hacking Vital Infrastructure, she mentioned how some in the general public seem to believe that situations (like the one demonstrated...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 10-22-2007
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Security
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - How much is your data worth?

How much is your data worth? Tuesday September 25, 2007 at 11:09 am CST Posted by Allysa Myers Trackback Apparently P2P is the place to find information these days, especially highly confidential information. There have been two particularly interesting and high-profile cases of P2P clients being improperly...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 09-27-2007
Filed under: In the News, Security
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - The corridors of the Rugby World Cup

The corridors of the Rugby World Cup Friday September 7, 2007 at 5:12 am CST Posted by Francois Paget Trackback The Rugby World Cup is a premier international rugby union competition. It is a major event in France where we support our blue shirts of the national team. Today, will be the first match!...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 09-11-2007
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Security
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Digital Reality Misunderstanding

That made up my mind, I am not buying this game... Digital Reality Misunderstanding Friday August 24, 2007 at 10:36 am CST Posted by Seth Purdy Trackback The Tuesday release of the much anticipated computer game BioShock has quickly turned up another clash between enthusiastic customers and the interests...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 08-27-2007
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Security
Researchers Crack BitLocker, FileVault - eWeek.com

Researchers Crack BitLocker, FileVault By Ryan Naraine 2008-02-21 The issue is described as a design limitation that could allow practical attacks against laptops in "sleep" or "hibernation" mode. Four of the most widely used disk encryption technologies—Windows Vista's BitLocker...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 02-22-2008
Filed under: In the News, Mobile\Wireless, Security
German Police Trojans - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

German Police Trojans Posted by Sean @ 17:34 GMT | Comments Germany's Constitutional Court ruled last Wednesday on the issue of "cybermonitoring" (trojans) by Germany's domestic security services. We've posted on the topic in the past: Should police hack? Poll Results - Should Police...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-04-2008
Filed under: In the News, Security, Cybercrime
Secunia PSI Reaches Milestone - Blog - Secunia

Secunia PSI Reaches Milestone 10:43 CET on the 18th January 2008. Entry written by Jakob Balle. Hello everybody! Late yesterday evening the Secunia PSI reached an important milestone - a quarter of a million users! To be exact, user number 250,000 installed the Secunia PSI at 17. Jan. 2008, 22:35:21...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-18-2008
Filed under: In the News, Security, Patch Managment

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