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Backup cartridges containing records on 800,000 individuals belonging to the California Department of Child Support Services (DCCS) were lost in transit between an IBM facility in Colorado and DCCS’s headquarters in California On March 12, according to a statement from DCCS. (PDF)
The twice-shut-down Kelihos botnet remains active and continues spamming with a new variant, despite yesterday’s efforts by Kaspersky Lab and CrowdStrike that knocked offline and sinkholed the most recent version of the botnet.
For the second time in six months, researchers from the Russian antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab, carried out an operation to take down the newest iteration of the Kelihos botnet, also known as “Hlux.”
Hackers are actively exploiting weak Web site security at leading credit rating agencies and stealing customer credit reports for resale on the black market, according to a report by MSNBC.
A Kaspersky Lab researcher has discovered a Brazilian social engineering campaign that attempts to trick Facebook users into installing a malicious plug-in hosted on Google’s Chrome Web Store.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is sounding alarms about a collection of overly vague cyber-security bills making their way through Congress.
There are a number of compromised sites on the popular blogging platform, WordPress, which, according to a Trend Labs report, are actively infecting users with the CRIDEX worm.
Network security experts from across the U.S. government told a U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee Tuesday that federal networks have been thoroughly penetrated by foreign spies, and that current perimeter-based defenses that attempt to curb intrusions are outdated and futile.
Pwnedlist, the Web site that compiles information on victims of data breaches, is going commercial with a plan to charge individuals for daily monitoring of their email addresses against a growing database of more-than 12 million email-login credentials.
An advertising banner on a number of widely used Russian-content sites has been serving a rare, RAM-based form of malware, according to a Securelist report.
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