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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
Nearly 2,500 people who were students in Purdue's College of Science in February 2000 are being warned that their personal information may have been accessed recently in a possible computer security breach.
University officials discovered the possible breach during a routine security check this month of an administrative computer in the Department of Chemistry. The incident involved a file, dated Feb. 4, 2000, that contained personal identifying information, including Social Security numbers, names, school, classification, major and e-mail addresses for 2,482 students.
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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
BANKS are reporting an "explosion" in online banking fraud as an unholy alliance of organised criminal gangs, hackers and virus writers join forces to raid our bank accounts.
Up to 150 million spoof e-mails are being sent each month to banking customers, many of them carrying viruses, according to the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs). This reflects a nearly nine-fold increase on scam attacks in 2005.
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Thursday, 21 September 2006 |
Industry trends are forcing security in the data center to be re-thought. In particular, the trend towards consolidation results in increasingly centralised data storage which in turn creates new security vulnerabilities.
It is commonly understood that the majority of security breaches originate from an internal rather than an external source. According to the FBI and the Computer Security Institute, 50-80% of all attacks happen from inside company firewalls. Of those companies surveyed, 73% of them reported that they’d experienced some form of internal security breach over the past year.
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Thursday, 21 September 2006 |
As an online marketer my computers security is always in the back of my mind. My computer is the heart of my business, so keeping it safe should be prioty number one. Although sometimes it does slip to priority number two, which could as a result have a devastating effect on both myself and my customers. So this is a gentle reminder to be really aware of your online security. Ask yourself the question, Do you have a firewall? Do you have antivirus? Do you have antispyware software? You have...fantastic. You haven't got all three protectors then start too panic just a little. However there is an easy solution.
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Thursday, 21 September 2006 |
The unpatched Internet Explorer exploit discovered in the wild this week could quickly spread to thousands of malicious websites as soon as this weekend, warn security researchers.
The exploit, which takes advantage of a bug in the way Explorer 6 and earlier versions handle VML, has been turned into a module in a Russian exploit toolkit called WebAttacker, researchers have confirmed. WebAttacker is designed to make it a simple matter to build a malicious website, even assessing the visitor’s operating system and browser version and choosing the most effective exploit to use.
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