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Tuesday, 02 May 2006 |
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The personal details of 66,000 subscribers to a Japanese national newspaper have leaked online via file sharing software.
It is the latest in a long line of serious leaks in Japan, which have included sensitive military, police and medical records.
The newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, has confirmed that names, addresses and phone numbers have all been leaked, but no financial information. |
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Tuesday, 02 May 2006 |
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Symantec on Monday announced the formation of a group of security companies, financial institutions and Internet retailers that are banding together to help fight phishing.
Called the Symantec Phish Report Network, this group was initially formed by antiphishing vendor WholeSecurity, which Symantec acquired last September. Symantec modified the terms of membership and is relaunching the network with the participation of RSA Security, eBay, PayPal, Wells Fargo and Yahoo.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 |
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SafenSec Personal + AntiVirus has shown a 97% efficiency in AV Comparatives test.
SafenSec Personal+AntiVirus PC proactive protection system has been tested by AV Comparatives, well-known laboratory of independent tests of Anti-Virus software. The test proved high efficiency (97%!) of SafenSec protection against various kinds of external threats e.g. zero-day viruses, backdoors, worms, Trojans, hacker attacks etc. http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/SnS.PDF
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Monday, 10 April 2006 |
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Microsoft confirmed Thursday that the createTextRange security flaw in Internet Explorer will be among those addressed in its monthly patch rollout April 11. In all, the company said on its TechNet site, customers can expect five updates for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office -- at least one of them critical.
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Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
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Attacks that rely on "social engineering" tricks to fool users into visiting malicious Web sites are just as dangerous as any that exploit software vulnerabilities, a Microsoft security researcher argued this week. Attacks that rely on "social engineering" tricks to fool users into visiting malicious Web sites are just as dangerous as any that exploit software vulnerabilities, a Microsoft security researcher argued this week.
According to Matt Braverman, a program manager with Microsoft's Anti-Malware Technology Team, data from the group's Malicious Software Removal Tool shows that dupes are as crucial to attackers as bugs. |
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Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
David Lease wanted to protect his customers from Internet hackers. But rather than just add some new security software, he went a step further.
Lease went to a school to learn how to hack into computers himself.
"The whole thing to understanding a hacker is learning about the hackers' tools and techniques and how to use those things against them," he said.
Lease -- a senior consulting engineer with the systems integration firm Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE:CSC - News) -- is a graduate of the InfoSec Academy's certified ethical hacker training course. The class encourages students to develop cybercrime skills on a computer keyboard. |
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Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate questioned Wednesday why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to do business with data broker ChoicePoint Inc. a year after the company announced a data breach potentially affecting 145,000 U.S. residents.
Senator Patrick Leahy, of Vermont, blasted the DOJ and its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) division for a recent five-year, US$12 million contract for ChoicePoint to provide investigative analysis software to the FBI. In February 2005, ChoicePoint announced a data breach after criminals set up fake businesses that purchased private information from the data broker. |
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Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
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Information security weaknesses persist at the Securities Exchange Commission because the agency has not followed through on recommendations the Government Accountability Office made last year for comprehensive, agencywide information security.
SEC has implemented just a few of its recommendations, GAO said in a report. |
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Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
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Patching used to be a real drag for Gabriel Selmi, the security designate for non-profit mental health services provider Advanced Behavioral Health Inc. of Middletown, Conn. When an update arrived, the network administrator and his tiny IT team would download it to a floppy disk and then walk around to about 50 machines. Or, they'd send out an e-mail with a link and ask the employees to do it.
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Sunday, 19 March 2006 |
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Panda Software has published its report that it
prepares every week on the most significant viruses and intrusions.
Based on the information compiled by PandaLabs, this week three Trojans
with very different functions stand out: CXOver.A, Banker.CHG and
Cryzip.A.
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