A machine equipment company in Texas is tousling with its bank after
organized crooks swiped more than $800,000 in a 48-hour cyber heist
late last year. While many companies similarly victimized over the past
year have sued their banks for having inadequate security protection,
this case is unusual because the bank is preemptively suing the victim. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
A new iteration of Zeus, a notorious password-stealing trojan, is victimizing users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), according to researchers. Read the full article. [Secure Computing]
Google has announced the availability of Chrome version 4.0 for Windows which addresses several high-risk security vulnerabilities, the latest release of the WebKit-based browser includes a number of new features. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Popular technology site TechCrunch was hit by potty-mouth hackers late on Monday, leaving the site temporarily unavailable.
A notice on TechCrunch.com’s front page on Tuesday morning explains that “TechCrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit”. Read the full article. [The Register]
At least three US oil companies were victims of highly targeted,
email-borne attacks designed to siphon valuable data from their
corporate networks and send it abroad, according to a published report
citing unnamed people and government documents. Read the full article. [The Register]
Spammers’ own trickery has been used to develop an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. Read the full article. [New Scientist]
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) could inadvertently allow a hacker
to read files on a person’s computer, another problem for the company
just days after a serious vulnerability received an emergency patch. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
If you happen to stumble upon a Web site that freaks out your anti-virus program, chances are good that the page you’ve visited is part of a malicious or hacked site that has been outfitted with what’s known as an “exploit pack.” Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Botnets give the common hacker espionage tools formerly reserved for nation states. Brian Krebs interviews Roland Dobbins on the “democratization of espionage.” Read the full article. [CSOonline]
The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised
customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute’s annual study. The
average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in 2008 to
$6.75 million in 2009. Read the full article. [IDG News]
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