The next time you click on a link in your Google, Yahoo or MSN search results, hold your breath. Although most of us feel relatively safe when we click on search results or visit the web sites or blogs of trusted businesses or friends, we shouldn’t be so carefree, according to Roger Thompson.
Thompson should know. [...]
Trusted Web Sites Not Always Trustworthy
May 8th, 2006 · No Comments
Three sites recover from DOS attacks
May 8th, 2006 · No Comments
Antispam service provider Blue Security shored up its defenses on Friday after a massive denial-of-service attack made the company’s Web site and service inaccessible for more than three days. Blog hosting service Six Apart and registrar Tucows had fully recovered from collateral effects of the attack, which had caused hours of outages at the two [...]
Botnet chaos shut down hospital
May 8th, 2006 · No Comments
A hacker has pleaded guilty to infecting thousands of computers with a botnet programme, including those belonging to a hospital network and the US military.
The malware released by 20-year old Christopher Maxwell in January 2005, is said to have caused a number of problems for computers in Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, the [...]
Ransom-A, a new Trojan Horse threatening our PC
May 8th, 2006 · No Comments
A new Trojan horse has been introduced in the web endangering Windows OS: it’s Ransom-A and it behaves like a robber that takes data hostages threatening to cancel them one-by-one every 30 minutes, unless a $10.99 ransom is fulfilled– as Sophos experts asserted.
Upon activation, Ransom-A displays some pornographic images, as well as the following message: [...]
How to protect your company against cybercrime
May 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Organized cybercrime is alive and well. Criminals are invading cyberspace, utilizing its anonymity, widespread reach and disjointed law enforcement status to further their illicit moneymaking schemes. Security practitioners need to be aware of this activity and understand what they need to defend against.
Your Top Three Security Priorities
May 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Faced with the ever-changing threat landscape and what has become a complex, confusing world of technology for IT, it’s easy to lose focus and forget what otherwise would be your top priorities.
We often become so enamored with technology we forget that the employee is not only a critical part of your security solution, they are [...]
Simple tools are widely available online to access the corporate local area network using stolen laptops
May 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Lost or stolen laptops which fall into the wrong hands can be used to launch an attack on the corporate LAN using tools obtained online or from auction websites, according to SecureTest. SecureTest took a sample laptop with commonly used password security and carried out a series of hack attacks to demonstrate how these mobile [...]
A how to for WiFi safety
May 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Connect to a legitimate service provider and make sure the paid service you tap into is the one advertised for that location. Resist using a free signal; it could be a hacker nearby who is waiting for people to use the decoy Internet access.
Registry Keys for Tweaking Windows Update (Part 1)
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
In this article, I will show you some registry keys that are associated with Windows Update. As I do, I will show you the various settings that you can assign to those registry keys…Although Windows Update and WSUS are both generally pretty simple to configure, you can sometimes gain a higher level of control over [...]
Spammer Desperately Tries to Undermine Blue Security
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
In what appears to be a last-ditch attempt at scaring subscribers to Blue Security’s “Do Not Intrude” registry, one very prominent spammer has started to resort to scare-tactics targeted toward members of the Blue Security community. I received one of these emails today, and while it sounds forboding it is, as one Blue Security community [...]