A recent chat with an individual who was almost tricked into helping organized criminals launder thousands of dollars stolen through e-banking fraud displayed one of the more clever and convincing money mule recruitment Web sites encountered. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in your e-mail…Researchers say a new round of targeted attacks appear to come from the same group responsible for attacks against Google and other top U.S. firms.
A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department’s
primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of
vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according
to a recent inspector general’s report. Read the full article. [Government Computer News]
Summer may have reached its unofficial end with the Labor Day holiday, but there was no break from security news this week, as both the Gov 2.0 Conference in Washington D.C. and a raft of warnings and patches from leading vendors kept the heat on high.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to
$32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking
everything about the Internet from from its core routing system to its
security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing
and an increasingly mobile society. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Reports are coming in that the Information Commissioner’s Office has
started investigating FIFA, the world football governing body, over
allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans’ – including
their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and
then sold on the black market. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
WASHINGTON, D.C.– As the speed of technological innovation has continued to increase in recent years, it has completely outpaced the ability of companies, consumers and regulators to keep up with the ways in which those changes affect online privacy, experts say, and in order to make real improvements in the way that sensitive data is handled, all of the concerned parties will need to change the way they think about privacy.
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The United States has a responsibility to take a leadership role in securing the Internet against both internal and external attackers, a duty that the federal government takes very seriously, the country’s top military cybersecurity official said Tuesday. However, Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, provided virtually nothing in the way of details of how the government intends to accomplish this rather daunting task.
According to the researcher who helped take down
Mariposa, the operators who purchased the bot software from the
man known as “Iserdo” and then built Mariposa, for some
reason didn’t opt for the feature, which he offered for 200 euros, even
though it would have increased their potential profits. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
The former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Division warns that the U.S. military’s preoccupation with secrecy could hamper efforts to get the upper hand in cyber security.
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