Archive for the ‘Cyber Security News’ Category
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
According to the network security provider Fortinet's August Threatscape report, malware activity in the month of August 2009 has shown a considerable increase.
While it may not be too surprising to many security experts, malware has been in the increase for a long time now. Malware is not showing any ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Studies show that the growth of Malware is increasing to the point where it creates a serious challenge for companies that produce anti-malware products to keep up.
An independent testing group based out of Germany has been maintaining malware collections for the purpose of testing anti-malware products over the past ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
A new spam campaign was discovered as a mass-mailer attack that sends email disguised as being from popular sites such as Hallmark, Twitter, Hi5 and Amazon.
CA Security Advisor Research Blog has warned computer users of a new mass-mailer spam campaign that sends out messages including a .ZIP file attachment ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
The National Director of Cybersecurity also an author and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Rod Beckstrom, has resigned.
The position that Rod Beckstrom held was one that involved forming a relevant cybersecurity policy for the better of the government as a whole in part of reporting to the US Department of Homeland ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
An increasing amount of users are falling victim to malware that is distributed on Digg and YouTube comments and posts.
Lately attackers have been putting up comments and posts on Digg stories and YouTube videos that contain a link claiming to link to a video, usually pornographic, which essentially infects ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
A data breach last month disclosed by Heartland Payment Systems Inc. now includes more than 150 banks being affected.
Some of the banks included in the Heartland data breach are located in 40 states as well as Bermuda, Canada and Guam. This information was explained by BankInfoSecurity.com's news portal.
With today's ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Are you planning on sending an eCard to your loved one this Valentine’s Day? Do you think your special-someone will receive your eCard without it getting caught by a spam filter?
This Valentine’s Day brings about another holiday that hackers can use to their advantage. You may ask, how would ...
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