Recent Articles
DDOS Attack Against a Domain Registers DNS Server
Botnets have grown in size and sophistication and as such we should gear up for some real attacks coming from them. I think we will begin to see more attacks like the one that happened a couple of weeks ago in China. A DDOS attack against a popular domain registrer in China. [...]
Malicious Insiders Causing Havoc at Financial Institutions
The SANS institute (www.sans.org) posted these two blurbs that caught my attention regarding threats from the inside.
–Bank Employee Draws 39-Month Sentence in Theft Scheme (May 25, 2009) A former bank employee has been sentenced to more than three years in jail for attempting to steal GBP 1.2 million (US $1.9 million) from his [...]
20,000 Legitimate Websites Compromised Through New Injection Attack
Websense recently made this announcement:
“Websense Security Labs(TM) Threatseeker(TM) Network has detected that a large compromise of legitimate Web sites is currently taking place around the globe. Thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site. The active exploit site uses a [...]
Can Hackers Take Over the U.S. Power Grid?
There is an interesting article that I read recently entitled “Cybercriminals have penetrated U.S. electrical grid” that is quite disturbing. In the original Wall Street Journal article, it states that cybercriminals have gained access to U.S. power grid systems and are mapping the network and infecting computers with malware. Although it appears [...]
Would you like a Trojan with that pirated software?
Cyber criminals know that often times people want to get their hands on the latest and greatest software prior to its official release. As a result, these hackers have been known to modify this software and post it to the Internet for unsuspecting people to download. The modifications that they make include methods [...]
Your Data for Ransom
This isn’t the first time I have heard about this type of thing, but it does appear to be a growing threat. According to Wikileaks.org, cyber attackers breached the Virginia Department of Health Professionals’ prescription monitoring website, downloaded a ton of data and are now demanding $10 million dollars in ransom for its return. [...]
Lots of Malware Out There
Article Link
250,000 malicious sites created daily
60% of these poisoned web pages are live for around 24 hours
Retail Data Breach Study Analysis
Perimeter eSecurity released a retail data breach study several months ago. There was an insightful article posted that I thought made some very good points. Be sure to read the comments at the bottom as well.
Hospitals are infected with Conficker
There is a very interesting article discussing how Conficker spread to medical devices and systems in many hospitals in the U.S. and abroad. Many are still baffled by how some of these systems even got infected in the first place. The devices include those of MRI machines, heart monitoring systems, and more. [...]
Swine Flu Scams
Even with this first, passive wave of H1N1 swine flu diminishing, scams are on the rise. Websense reports a huge number of email scams based on news (usually false) around the H1N1 swine flu. End users being concerned about a possible pandemic are eager to learn the latest news and with sensationalized subject [...]