FBI “Operation Bot Roast II” may underestimate global botnet threat
Yesterday the FBI reported it had obtained three new indictments and successfully secured key convictions of botnet cyber criminals.  In June 2007, part one of the FBI …
Teenager allegedly headed international hacking ring
Sophos reports that a teenager from New Zealand, believed to be the brains behind an international cyber gang, has been arrested. The gang was allegedly responsible for …
New Zealand botnet crackdown dangerous despite 2007 bots drop
The botnet crackdown in New Zealand is only tip of the iceberg. The majority of people with compromised computers do not even know their computers are being used for criminal …
Free security scan available for the new SANS Top 20
Qualys announced the availability of a free network scanning service to help companies find and eliminate vulnerabilities listed in the annual SANS Top 20 update for 2007 that …
VirusScan now available on Mac OS X Leopard
VirusScan for Mac v8.6 is one of the first anti-virus solutions for Apple’s newest operating system, Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard. With the release of McAfee VirusScan …
Majority companies feel they are secure against the risk of data leaks
The email survey, conducted during the week of the HMRC data loss, showed that the majority of respondents feel their companies are secure against the risk of data leaks. …
Trojan directs computers to porn sites and drugs stores
Half part pesky and half part sleazy. That’s how you can describe this malware that takes over your browser and redirects it to pornography and diverts online searches …
New SANS Top 20 list points to two major transformations in attacker targets
This year’s SANS Top 20 illuminates two new attack targets that criminals have chosen to exploit, and the older targets where attackers have significantly raised the …
Macrovision acquires Blu-ray disc security technology
Macrovision completed its acquisition of SPDC (Self-Protecting Digital Content) technology from Cryptography Research, Inc., a San Francisco-based R&D organization …
NetShred X privacy tool now supports Safari 3 and works on Leopard
Mireth Technology Corp. has released version 4.1 of NetShred X, its easy to use internet track eraser that erases internet tracks, such as cache, history and email. NetShred X …
New Firefox release fixes three security issues
A new version of the Firefox web browser has been released. Firefox 2.0.0.10 fixes three security vulnerabilities: Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition – …
“Man in the Browser” attacks becoming popular among cyber criminals
F-Secure warns computer users of an upsurge in attacks against banking sites, targeting personal user data. These attacks use a new generation of malicious codes in a …
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