November 23, 2009 - More than half of the nation's hospitals and health care providers surveyed intend to buy more cybersecurity tools to safeguard against breaches of electronic medical records as a result of requirements in the economic stimulus law, according to a new (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - The FBI said Friday it may investigate a breach of patient privacy laws at University Medical Center, where hospital officials are reeling with the realization that at least one of their employees has leaked confidential names, birth dates and Social (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - A woman who worked as a patient services coordinator for Johns Hopkins Medicine has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing patient information. Thirty-one-year-old Michelle Courtney Johnson of Baltimore was also ordered at sentencing on Friday to (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Is your wish to spend the upcoming holidays in Hawaii or the Bahamas? With the recent increase in the volume of airline ticket spam, spammers have made it seem easy to grab cheap (or even free) airline tickets to your (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Phishers are constantly targeting newer brands from diverse industries, with the sole motive of fraudulently acquiring a large amount of users’ confidential information for financial gains. Symantec has observed and followed up with some recent trends in phishing attacks targeting (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Let’s see, have we heard this point-counterpoint before?Statement: "64-bit Windows has some of the lowest reported malware infection rates in the first half of 2009,"(Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center).Counter statement: yes, but pretty (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Trend Micro threat analysts recently unearthed spammed messages that purported to have come from Trend Micro. Targeting trusted organizations is not an uncommon technique, used by cybercriminals when carrying out spam campaigns. In this case, the malicious URL (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - The new version of Nessus 4.2 is under active development and getting closer to release as each day passes. The new version introduce some changes and several enhancements and improvements. Over the next few weeks we will (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - We explained that you don't need to pay for Windows security last week, but today we're taking a closer look at how to protect yourself from drive-by malware that can infect your computer by (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 13 Announcements A new video has been released that covers how to use Nessus 4.2, the latest version of Tenable's Nessus vulnerability scanner. Tenable Network Security's CEO, Ron Gula, is featured in (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Once again Zeus is up to its old tricks with a new twist. The latest spam run informs users that their latest Social Security statement is available but it may contain errors. The subject of the mail will be something (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Wow. Patrick Jordan just noticed that the new rogue security product EchoAntivirus 2010 is pretty pricey! $99.99.VIPRE is a much better buy at $29.95 (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Users who are currently planning to go or return to Brazil, especially with the holidays coming up, should watch out for a recent spam run. Spammed messages fashioned to look like an email from a Brazilian airline are offering users (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2009 - Threat researchers have been alerted to the discovery of a new exploit targeting Internet Explorer. Analysts have conducted tests and confirmed that the exploit affects versions 6 and 7 of the browser. Although the exploit is currently unreliable, cybercriminals may (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2009 - The Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco to Oakland, California, carries approximately 280,000 vehicles per day. Many of those vehicles are transporting employees to their workplaces in the greater San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland area, which is why those of us who (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2009 - You must be wondering what these three have in common. They all appeared together in a special spam message today, in the latest incarnation of malware masquerading itself as a flash player plug-in. This message appears very dodgy from the start: Wow, don't ask (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2009 - Trend Micro threat analysts recently found a fake Shaw Communications phishing Web page http://{BLOCKED}nadaworld.net/{very long string containing random characters}/ that asks users for their customer care login name and password. (continue reading...) Read more
November 22, 2009 - It's only been a couple of short weeks since the iPhone background-changing incident that took the world by storm (well, parts of Australia at least), but already a Dutch ISP has reported what would be the first malicious iPhone worm to be (continue reading...) Read more
November 21, 2009 - SophosLabs were today’s Macbook air winners according to the cyber criminals. We received loads of these congratulation emails on our spam traps today. They were spamming out the malicious attachments which Sophos successfully detects as Troj/Agent-LNC. (continue reading...) Read more
November 21, 2009 - A new exploit targeting Internet Explorer was published to the BugTraq mailing list yesterday. Symantec has conducted further tests and confirmed that it affects Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 as well. The exploit currently exhibits signs of poor (continue reading...) Read more