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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
Google is making a significant change in the way that it handles legitimate sites that have been compromised and are serving up malware. The search giant announced Monday that it will now provide webmasters with specific examples of the malicious code that was used to compromise their sites.
TORONTO — The legitimate economy may be in rough shape right now, but the same cannot be said for the underground economy. Malware authors and botmasters are thriving, experts say, with some online criminals charging as much as $3,500 for their attack toolkits.
TORONTO — The frequency and scope of SQL injection attacks has exploded in the last year or two, with thousands of legitimate Web sites having been compromised and used to serve malware or further Web exploits. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are some remarkably effective techniques that security professionals can use to identify and recover from these attacks.
In his keynote presentation at SecTor 2009, Chris Hoff of Cisco discusses the rise of public and private cloud services, as well as the threats to those platforms.
The Department of Homeland Security is planning a major hiring spree, looking to fill as many as 1,000 cybersecurity positions over the course of the next three years. The department announced the new initiative Thursday, marking DHS’s first real push to hire a large number of information security experts.
Security expert Bruce Schneier discusses the problems and limitations of identification-based security, from driver’s licenses to national ID cards and the REAL ID program.
Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hoff of Cisco about the challenges of cloud deployment and security, cloud use cases and the effect that disruptive technologies can have on enterprises, vendors and standards organizations.
From SearchSecurity.com (Robert Westervelt)
Phishing websites and rogue antivirus programs increased precipitously in the first half of 2009, according to a new report issued by the Antiphishing Working Group. The number of unique phishing websites reached a high of nearly 50,000 in June, the second highest on record since more than 55,000 phishing websites were recorded in April, 2007. Read the full story [SearchSecurity.com].
Mozilla has released a preview build of Firefox that includes its new Content Security Policy specification, a framework that’s designed to enable site owners to protect against common Web-based attacks.
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