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10/9/2007
A member of Sun's X Window System engineering team is recommending that users should turn off the X font server if they don't need it.
10/8/2007
The security company is adding a real-time anti-phishing feature to its Web filtering appliance, enabling companies to analyze Web pages on the fly.
10/8/2007
Adobe issued a workaround for the vulnerability and reported that a fix should be released before the end of the month.
10/8/2007
E-mails that appear to be from YouTube's "invite-a-friend" service could be attached to a spam ring, security firm Sophos warns.
10/5/2007
A security company is reporting that the attack tactics include the Gozi, Prg, Storm, and BBB/IRS Trojans.
10/5/2007
The CTO of an online pharmacy admitted to setting up a company with two cohorts to illegally distribute controlled medications, including diet drugs.
10/5/2007
Cybertricksters are luring unsuspecting users to click on a link to a malicious Web site by posing as a cute, long-lost friend from school.
10/4/2007
A 'reply all' error in a Department of Homeland Security anti-terrorism bulletin had security professionals flooding in-boxes with jokes and personal information.
10/4/2007
Microsoft is planning to patch vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, Internet Explorer and Office in next week's Patch Tuesday release.
10/4/2007
The alleged hacker used connections at a McDonald's and Best Buy to launch denial-of-service attacks and then heckle his victims.
10/4/2007
The flaw, which affects Windows XP and Windows Vista machines, opens up a backdoor that could enable a hacker to break into Firefox.
10/3/2007
Two men both face a possible 10 years in prison for allegedly downloading child pornography on their work computers at NASA's Ames Research Center.
10/3/2007
While cybercriminals have spent months trying to build the largest botnets they could, now they're splitting them up into smaller, more manageable pieces.
10/3/2007
A Forrester Research study reveals the vast majority of enterprises adopt Web 2.0 technologies without preparing to fend off the related threats.
10/2/2007
A security company is calling on the social networking site to improve its default privacy settings so users' info isn't open to anyone on the site.
10/2/2007
A study shows that while 94% of consumers say they're running antivirus software, 48% actually have let it expire, and are running fully exposed.
10/2/2007
As part of its antipiracy crusade, the Business Software Alliance is extending its whistle-blower campaign through the end of the year.
10/1/2007
Malware writers in September were sending out waves of spam in an attempt to infect computers with the Pushdo Trojan horse by offering pictures of naked female celebrities.
10/1/2007
The retailer said a contractor hadn't properly encrypted sensitive information on a laptop that was stolen from one of the vendor's offices.
10/1/2007
Two men are charged with trying to steal computer chip design trade secrets in an attempt to start their own company with funding from the Chinese government.
9/28/2007
The attack caused the loss of computer and telecommunications services for Cox customers throughout Dallas, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.
9/28/2007
The iPhone V1.1.1 update, which shipped Thursday, is a giant patch, fixing issues with the device's mail service, a bug in Bluetooth, and seven bugs in Safari.
9/27/2007
Security researchers disclosed a bug in AIM that could enable a hacker to remotely execute malicious code and exploit Internet Explorer bugs.
9/27/2007
A manager for the storage company faces a federal wire fraud charge for allegedly embezzling $90,000, including nearly $13,000 to pay her son's private school tuition.
9/26/2007
A former worker's new employer sent Pfizer a DVD containing Pfizer data. The information was allegedly found on the employee's computer at the new job.
9/26/2007
A report out of Canada also gives credence to widespread conjecture that hackers may have accessed the retailer's network through a wireless connection.
9/26/2007
On his way to federal prison, the 23-year-old hacker says breaking into computers at telecom companies and major corporations was "so easy a caveman could do it."
9/24/2007
The terms of the settlement, which need court approval, would offer customers a store voucher, free credit monitoring, and a 15%-off sale.
9/24/2007
Unisys, a major government IT contractor, reportedly is being investigated for allegedly failing to detect cyberattacks, and then covering up its failings.
9/24/2007
The security company is offering an appliance that is backed up by a network that tracks botnet activity ramping up around the world.
9/21/2007
A CompTIA study also showed that one in four companies surveyed indicated that they have had an insider security breach or threat in the last year.
9/21/2007
If they can't access the Internet when they want to, Americans say they worry that they're missing out on something important.
9/20/2007
The vulnerabilities could allow remote access, elevated privileges, and denial-of-service conditions.
9/20/2007
The state is suing for illegal negligence and breach of contract, but Accenture says the matter was a mistake based on human error.
9/20/2007
A special agent within a security division of the Department of Commerce allegedly used a database unlawfully to track a woman's movements.
9/20/2007
An Iowa man faces 15 federal charges for allegedly sending threatening letters and pipe bombs to coerce investment firms into manipulating the stock price of networking company 3Com.
9/19/2007
New Jersey man tells the court he planted the logic bomb on the prescription manager's network when he suspected he was going to be laid off.
9/19/2007
The U.S.-CERT is warning about a buffer overflow vulnerability in the MFC42 and MFC71 libraries offered natively in Windows.
9/19/2007
Six days after proof-of-concept code was released for a long-unpatched bug in Apple's QuickTime media player, Firefox is updated with a fix.
9/19/2007
Vertical Web Media's president says hackers breached the company's network even though patches were up-to-date and defenses were in place.
9/18/2007
Organizations like the Spamhaus Project and Surbl.org have been under attacks for months, but they've managed to stay online.
9/18/2007
Think you're safe on your favorite Web site? You might want to think again. Symantec reports cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting them to target trusting users.
9/18/2007
The top security concerns of Internet service providers are botnets and professional-level distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a survey of 70 ISPs.
9/17/2007
Ameritrade says while they investigated the break-in, they unwittingly kept putting user information in the breached database. Nearly all 6.3 million accounts were compromised.
9/17/2007
The alumnus faces five years for embedding malware in the university's system that stole data on 133,000 students and employees.
9/14/2007
This year's Computer Crime and Security Survey shows that financial fraud has overtaken viruses as the cause of the greatest amount of financial loss.
9/14/2007
The attack may be linked to the same hacker group that infected 400 other Web sites last week with malware.
9/14/2007
The online brokerage is blaming the database breach on "unauthorized code" that was found in the network. E-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen.
9/14/2007
The 18-year-old who pleaded guilty in March was also ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in restitution.
9/13/2007
An 18-month police investigation led to the arrests of an alleged group of Russian, Ukrainian, and German phishers who were spending their loot on luxury cars and jewelry.
9/13/2007
A penetration tester said he posted an exploit demonstration to make a point after Apple "ignored" a QuickTime vulnerability that he discovered a year ago.
9/13/2007
Interpol's Secretary General says the private sector needs to become much more involved in law enforcement investigations to give police the edge they need.
9/11/2007
In a small batch of patches, especially after last month's mega batch, Microsoft fixes vulnerabilities in Microsoft Agent, Visual Studio, and MSN Messenger.
9/11/2007
A San Francisco man faces 40 years in prison and a fine of $1,500,000 for allegedly hacking into financial institutions to steal credit card information.
9/11/2007
The worm takes advantage of Skype's chat function to send a message with a link that takes unwary users to a malicious jpg file.
9/10/2007
The patch management company is changing its name to Lumension Security and rolling out its first security management products.
9/10/2007
The Storm worm authors are taking advantage of the excitement around the opening days of the professional football season to add more victims to their botnet.
9/10/2007
Nearly nine of 10 Americans polled said state and federal lawmakers should pass laws restricting the availability and use of Social Security numbers.
9/7/2007
Execs at the health-care services company are unsure how much identifying information was contained on the patients documented in the missing machines.
9/7/2007
Four men are each facing five years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a stock manipulation scheme involving 15 different companies.
9/7/2007
The iTunes 7.4 udpate fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects both Mac and Windows users.
9/7/2007
A Las Vegas man pled guilty to threatening lawsuits against the owners of Internet domain names in a scheme to gain control of them.
9/6/2007
Five bulletins are expected to fix bugs in Windows Vista, MSN Messenger and Visual Studio.
9/6/2007
Researchers say the growing botnet has enough distributed power to launch a damaging attack against major businesses or even countries.
9/6/2007
The disk-drive maker announced it's working on a desktop hard drive with native encryption that will protect all the data on a stolen machine.
9/5/2007
Fortinet is warning users to ignore even legitimate sites' requests for e-mail and IM login information because handing it out is a bad habit to get into.
9/5/2007
The number of not-so-technically-savvy criminals using crimeware toolkits is jumping, and more computers are being infected because of it, according to security researchers.
9/5/2007
A U.S. District Court ruled against an online media company that wanted to force Kaspersky Lab to stop classifying its adware as "spyware."
9/5/2007
Prosecutors say the man was part of the "warez scene" -- an underground community where pirated software is bought and sold in large quantities.
9/4/2007
Those exposed include accounts to the Kazakhstan Embassy in Russia, the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, and the Office of the Dalai Lama.
9/4/2007
The malware authors are taking advantage of the Labor Day holiday, as well as luring people with videos by Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, and Velvet Revolver.
8/24/2007
A security researcher warns that old threats, like the Slammer worm, never go away and some are continuing to wreak havoc.
8/24/2007
With phishing scams on the rise, one expert says cybercriminals need to recruit 10,000 to 20,000 people a year to help illegally transfer money out of victims' accounts.
8/23/2007
While the hackers solicit mules to move money from compromised bank accounts, Monster.com shuts down data cache.
8/23/2007
A Ponemon study shows that a lot of data leakage is occurring on off-network devices, like laptops that leave the corporate confines.
8/23/2007
A man who waged a phishing scam against AOL users is facing up to seven years in federal prison.
8/22/2007
The majority of malware written in China focuses on stealing gamers' user names and passwords for a growing underground ready to shell out cash to appear to be better players.
8/22/2007
Storm worm authors are trying a mix of new tricks to infect computers and build up their massive botnet.
8/21/2007
The man, who was arrested in a Turkish nightclub, was accused of selling stolen credit card information, but is not believed to have stolen it from TJX himself.
8/21/2007
The data apparently is being stolen and stockpiled by one hacker group using the latest variance of the Prg Trojan.
8/21/2007
Two out of three people said they are worried about information co-workers are sharing on social networking Web sites.
8/21/2007
Workers on the go are opening suspicious e-mails and hijacking neighbors' wireless connections, but 73% put the security responsibility on the IT department.
8/20/2007
Security firms warn that Facebook use on the job could be putting a company's network at risk.
8/17/2007
The Trojan stealing the data was hidden in a fraudulent advertisement on online job sites like Monster.com.
8/17/2007
A 24-year-old Russian and four co-conspirators are accused of stealing $1.5 million by obtaining victims' personal identifying information.
8/17/2007
The identity theft operation bought identities and credit card info from overseas suppliers and then used it to make phony cards to withdraw money from ATMs.
8/16/2007
Researchers are warning universities that they're at risk of being hit with massive distributed denial-of-service attacks when they scan their own networks.
8/16/2007
Despite having competing browsers, Opera used Mozilla's JavaScript security software tool, which was recently submitted to the general software community.
8/16/2007
Five out of the project's eight servers were compromised and attacking other computers when they were taken offline.
8/15/2007
The heap overflow vulnerability can be triggered when a user accepts a Webcam invite, according to McAfee researchers.
8/15/2007
Domestic abuse advocates and a McAfee researcher warn that abusers are increasingly using spyware, keyloggers, and GPS devices to track and intimidate victims.
8/15/2007
The retailers' second-quarter earnings show that the company had to absorb $118 million in that quarter alone. That's added to earlier breach costs of $17 million.
8/14/2007
Researchers are calling this a massive bundle of patches, fixing bugs that will affect anyone using Windows.
8/14/2007
Two laptops containing identifying information on 950 people were stolen out of a consultant's car in Boston.
8/14/2007
Sophos shows that some social networkers will readily reveal their personally identifying information -- to absolutely anyone or anything.
8/13/2007
Sanjay Kumar was sentenced last November to 12 years in prison and an $8 million fine after being convicted of securities fraud and obstruction of justice.
8/13/2007
A researcher at the Internet Storm Center said the widespread but unfocused attack could have been a test of the might of a botnet more than 1.7 million zombies strong.
8/13/2007
Officials are investigating whether there was a data breach during the break in.
8/10/2007
The security company issued an advisory about the vulnerability in two ActiveX controls, as well as a patch for them.
8/10/2007
The next version of Firefox will identify malware on Web sites and make users stop and think about it.
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