The economic crisis has affected virtually every facet of society, and information security is no exception. In a new report titled Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information, researchers from Purdue University’s CERIAS security center lay out the fairly bleak view of what the tough times have done to corporate IT security.
How the economy is hurting security
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
Interview With Dino A. Dai Zovi
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
In our continuing series on personal computing security, today we’re talking with Dino A. Dai Zovi. Three years ago, the organizers of CanSecWest started a contest titled Pwn2Own. This contest involved the challenge of exploiting fully-patched retail laptops.
2009 When a Bot master goes mad – Kill the OS
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
This time we are taking a close look about what things could happen with an infected computer when the running bot receives an specific command about to kill the Operating System. Not all type of bots usually have this functionality, but banking Trojans usually have.
Online crime complaints hit record high in 2008
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says complaints of online crime hit a record high in 2008, driven mostly by non-delivery of goods and service and those pesky 419 (Nigerian) e-mail scams.
IBM sees Conficker hitting 4% of PCs
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
After scanning 2 million computers over the past 24 hours, IBM’s Internet Security Systems (ISS) division said Thursday that it had spotted the worm on 4% of the IP addresses it monitored.
A Quick And Easy Way To Tell If You’re Infected With Conficker
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
Even though April 1st is now history, you would be foolish to think the Conficker worm is no longer a problem. It’s still out there, still causing a nuisance, and could be instructed to activate a payload whenever the hackers choose.
3 Free, Easy Ways To Protect Your Network
April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off
Whether the Conficker worm booms or fizzles, take it as a reminder to keep your networks safe. You could spend money on a security consultant–which isn’t such a bad investment if helpful–but here are three free tricks to increase your network’s security.
Attack Of The Mini Botnets
April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off
These mini-botnets range in size from tens to thousands versus the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of bots that the biggest botnets deploy. They are typically specialized and built to target an organization or person, stealing corporate and personal information, often without a trace.
OpenSSL patches three security holes
March 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of its popular implementation of the SSL v2/v3 and TLS protocols to fix three security vulnerabilities.
Botnet based on home network routers
March 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
DroneBL a distributed DNS Blacklist service, says in a recent blog post that a botnet named Psybot gained control of approximately one hundred thousand routers and that it became a victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that was carried out by this botnet.