A New York marketing firm that as recently as two weeks ago was
preparing to be acquired now is facing bankruptcy from a computer virus
infection that cost the company more than $164,000. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
The Obama administration gets a chance to demonstrate its cybersecurity leadership as three top guns from the executive branch – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt and FBI Director Robert Mueller – address the RSA conference in San Francisco next week. Read the full article. [GovInfoSecurity.com]
Twitter users were being hit on Wednesday with what seems to be the
second phishing attack this week, according to researchers. The latest attack features a message that says “This you????” followed by a link that leads to a fake Twitter log-in page. Read the full article. [cnet]
Despite widespread calls to boycott IE 6 and Microsoft’s plans to retire support for the browser, 19%
of respondents in a Virus Bulletin poll said that they are still running the browser, whether at home, at work,
or both. In VB’s poll, 15% of respondents said they
were running the browser at work, indicating that, for many
organizations, upgrading is not a priority. Read the full story [virusbtn.com]
Adobe today shipped a patch for a critical vulnerability in its Download Manager utility, warning that hackers could exploit the issue to take full control of Windows computers.The vulnerability, discovered by Aviv Raff, could potentially allow an attacker to download and install unauthorized software onto a user’s system, Adobe said in an advisory.
Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was
hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same
time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted. The giant California-based chip maker was rumored to have been among
some 34 companies that were targeted, but said on Tuesday there was no
evidence to tie its hack to the attack on Google and others. Read the full article. [Wired]
Rutgers University researchers have demonstrated how rootkits can be a threat to smartphones sporting operating systems not much unlike those in full-blown computers. Read the full article. [Network World]
Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps — in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump — in a recent wave of attacks that demonstrate a more sophisticated, insidious method of stealing money from unsuspecting victims filling up their gas tanks.
Users of Google’s Blogger, a free blog publishing tool, are the targets of the latest phishing email campaign. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
A New Hampshire-based IT consultancy lost nearly $100,000 this month
after thieves broke into the company’s bank accounts with the help of
10 co-conspirators across the United States. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecruity]
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