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Most cyber attacks occur from US IP Addresses

By Admin - 9/25/2008 One company reports that most of the Cyber Attacks that they tracked occurred from US IP Addresses. We do not agree on the percentages of the attacks, but acknowledge that the US is certainly not exempt.

If a Popup occurs, will you shoot yourself in the foot?

By Admin - 9/25/2008 If a Pop-up would appear on your computer, what would you do? Would you allow the pop-up to install malware on your computer?

PDF Exploits targeting your files

By Admin - 9/24/2008 Since the PDF file format is widely used on multiple OS types, new Exploits enable attacks on your favorite file format. This file type may not be changed by the average user, but active Hackers have the means to make it a weapon in their arsenal.

Coming to a Cell Phone near you, Neopwn.

By Admin - 9/22/2008 Recently release Neopwn runs on a Cell Phone, and can be used as an auditing tool, or a Cracker's Attack Platform. Are you ready for the attacks that occur within your organization?

Free Cracking software with your ASUS Recovery CD

By Admin - 9/22/2008 Now you can become a Hacker/Cracker too! Just launch your ASUS Recovery CD, and viola` Free Hacking tools!

Govenor Palin's Email Hacker details the breakin of her personal Email account

By Admin - 9/22/2008 Once a college student, now a potential felon, the hacker of Govenor Pailn's Yahoo Email account tells about his methods.

Mandriva Mini is ready for Laptops

By Admin - 9/22/2008 Mandriva creates the Mandriva Mini distribution for your Laptop. Mandriva is a favored version of Linux, with a better User interface.

10 percent of College admissions check the Internet

By Admin - 9/22/2008 Remember those wild days that you (or your high school kids) posted on MySpace and Facebook? They may keep you (them) from getting into the college you want.

Open Wifi will soon be Illegal in India

By Admin - 9/19/2008 Who's using your Wifi? They may be accepting responsibility for terrorist acts (or they may be connecting to your internal Network). Does anyone really think that Wifi is secure?

New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses

By Admin - 9/19/2008 Can you track me now? New York issues RFID Licenses, I'll bet that these people are unaware of the tracking capabilities of RFID.

Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant

By Admin - 9/19/2008 Bavarian Police use a Skype Trojan to eavesdrop on Skype communications. We reported the ability of Skype to be compromised and permit eavesdropping earlier this summer.

Hackers get Gov. Palin's Yahoo email account.

By Admin - 9/19/2008 Well, we have said it many times before. these free email services are not safe, nor secure.

IE 8 phones home to Microsoft

By Admin - 9/17/2008 Apparently the IE version 8 web browser reports your activity back to Microsoft. That's OK, because you want Microsoft to know everything you see, right?

Business week websites infect their readers

By Admin - 9/17/2008 "The website of popular magazine BusinessWeek has been attacked via SQL injection in an attempt to infect its readership with malware. Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected."

China wants their cake, and to eat it too!

By Admin - 9/15/2008 The Chinese government wants assistance from the UN to track IP Addresses on the Internet. This is an oxymoron, as most of the attacks on internet web servers have come from China, and are virtually untraceable!

Most companies admit their data is at risk.

By Admin - 9/14/2008 More that 25% of companies surveyed indicate that they recently had a breach (out of 1387 professionals surveyed). Healthcare and other sensitive information is also significantly at risk.

Greek Hackers CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

By Admin - 9/13/2008 Greek Hackers were only one network away from disaster at CERN.

Now any WiFi Router can be identifited by MAC Address.

By Admin - 9/13/2008 Apparently SkyHook Wireless has been wardriving the US for years and has developed a database of WiFi Routers across the country.

New Ban on Terrorist training videos

By Admin - 9/13/2008 YouTube is finally going to ban the Terrorist training videos. Thanks Guys, what took you so long?

HTTPS (Secure Web pages) get their cookies hijacked

By Admin - 9/11/2008 Adversaries able to position themselves in between you and a website is able to inject arbitrary http-based content elements for domains that do not set the 'Encrypted Sessions Only' property of their cookies, and thus cause your client to transmit these cookies via clear text, intercept them, and impersonate you.

Bluetooth devices are no longer safe

By Admin - 9/11/2008 The Blue Tooth technology was originally intended to extend no more than the 328 feet maximum range. But what happens when a hacker can reach your device from over a mile away?

Citect Controller vulnerable, here's another SCADA network issue

By Admin - 9/11/2008 SCADA networks, the ones used to control industrial process control systems (like utilities and steel mills), the code exploits the supervisory controls.

Cookie Monster, this one's not from Sesame Street

By Admin - 9/11/2008 The Cookie Monster is a tool available for PCs, MAc, and Linux boxes that can assist an adversery by permitting them to steal the 'Cookies' in the HTTP traffic flow.

Video shows easy hacking of voting machines

By Admin - 9/11/2008 Even with a paper audit trail the voting machines can be easily hacked to change the votes.

Criminals can Remote Wipe Cell Phones

By Admin - 9/4/2008 Unfotunately the Criminals are already ahead of Law Enforcement, now it looks like they are able to cover their trails.

5 Terms of Service that never Die.

By Admin - 9/4/2008 So you think that using the Free Service sites cost you nothing? Consider that anything that you post to other sites are no longer your possessions.

Zombie (botnet) network infections on the rise

By Admin - 9/4/2008 The number of infected PCs has quadrupled in the last 3 months.

Gustav scammers set up shop

By Admin - 9/3/2008 numerous domains with the word 'gustav', 'charity', 'hurircane' and 'relief' have been registered. Some of these domains are already on sale on eBay.

Who is taking money from your Bank Account?

By Admin - 9/1/2008 The moral of this story is that you should check your bank statement EVERY Month, or you too can lose a lot of money.

Mythbusters show hushed on Credit Card security

By Admin - 9/1/2008 Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security.

Tracking the Terrorists Online

By Admin - 9/1/2008 The German magazine Spiegel reports two small US companies that monitor terrorist networks online — IntelCenter and SITE Intelgroup.

Device can grab all of your Cell Phone Data

By Admin - 9/1/2008 CNET reports on the Cellular Seizure Investigation (CSI) Stick, developed for law enforcement but available to the public

India hires people to solve CAPTCHA

By Admin - 9/1/2008 India is hiring people to break the CAPTCHA in there own country.

Another Virus infects the Space Station

By Admin - 8/28/2008 This is not the first infection by viruses on computers at the Space Station. NASA downplayed the news, calling the virus mainly a "nuisance" that was on non-critical space station laptops used for things like e-mail and nutritional experiments.

The Internet's BIGGEST security hole.

By Admin - 8/28/2008 Dating back more than 10 years ago, Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, noted computer security expert and former member of the L0pht hacking group, who testified to Congress in 1998 that he could bring down the internet in 30 minutes using a similar BGP attack, and disclosed privately to government agents how BGP could also be exploited to eavesdrop.

UK Bank computer bought on eBay.

By Admin - 8/28/2008 BBC News story about a man in Oxford who paid $140 for a computer on eBay, and was shocked to find on it bank records of several million customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland, its subsidiary Natwest, and one other bank.

Sharing the responsibility?

By Admin - 8/27/2008 Should companies that have security break-ins share the responsibility of the break-ins themselves?

Best Western loses 8 Million customer records.

By Admin - 8/27/2008 Best Western has lost the customer information of every client they had in the past 12 months. This includes credit cards, employment records .... the company said that they took the computer offline. Is this the typical better late than never?

Another CMU invention for security.

By Admin - 8/26/2008 CMU has developed a Browser add-on for users of the popular Mozilla Firefox browser. So why are you still using IE?

Fastest Internet in the US

By Admin - 8/26/2008 The East Coast of the US boasts the fastest internet connections in the country. Just remember that the faster the connection the more potential for connections that can reach your Home or Office. Are you protected?

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