“Last month I convened an emergency meeting of my cabinet and top homeland security, intelligence and defense officials. Across the country trains had derailed, including one carrying industrial chemicals that exploded into a toxic cloud. Water treatment plants in several states had shut down,...
“In a company blog post Tuesday, Eric Grosse, Google’s vice president of security engineering, said Google will display a warning when it detects a suspected attack on a user’s account. Such attacks, the company said, could take the form of malicious software or of deceptive ‘phishing’...
“Recently, there have been instances of travelers’ laptops being infected with malicious software while using hotel Internet connections. In these instances, the traveler was attempting to setup the hotel room Internet connection and was presented with a pop-up window notifying the user ...
“Ukrainian authorities have shut down a long-running forum that was used to trade tips on writing malicious software, a sign the country’s law enforcement may be watching hackers more closely.” Source: Ukraine shuts down forum for malware writers – Computerworld...
The organization that sets federal technology standards has provided new security guidelines for protecting the system that starts up PCs. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting comments on new guidelines to lock down a computer’s Basic Input/Output System (B...
The SANS Institute announced today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney General’s Office have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative techniques in cyber law enforcement using the computer virus’ own command and control sy...
via AFP Hackers infected computers, derailed websites, and plundered networks in a memorably miserable quarter, according to a report released Wednesday by Internet security firm PandaLabs. Hacking groups Lulz Security and Anonymous caused “widespread mayhem” during the three months endi...
via ZDNet The US Department of Justice and the FBI have led a series of international raids that resulted in the seizure of IT equipment and the arrest of two suspects in Latvia, as part of a crackdown on a multimillion dollar scareware operation . The arrests, announced by the Department of Justice...