January 31, 2010 - Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a new malicious spam campaign that spoofs Google job application responses. The messages look very well written and are so believable that they are probably scrapes from actual Google job application responses. Typically, (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2010 - A Humboldt State University computer infected with a virus may have exposed the personal information of 3,500 people employed by the school between 2002 and 2006. HSU spokesman Paul Mann said no employees or former employees have yet reported (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2010 - 49 web sites of members of the US House of Representatives were hacked following the State of the Union address recently. The defacement contained a vulgar insult and a claim of (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2010 - Google has announced a number of security enhancements that are being implemented in Chrome. Some have already been implemented in other browsers, including Firefox and IE and in significant add-ons like (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2010 - Not that long after a Google employee running Internet Explorer 6 was hacked, creating an international incident, Google has announced that they will begin withdrawing support for IE6 in their (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - Having worked in the banking industry for years, Elida Cruz routinely assured her clients that their personal information would remain confidential. So she was understandably horrified Thursday to learn that paperwork carrying her own Social Security number, birth date, (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - Here’s something they don’t teach in marketing 101: If you’re pushing software that no one wants -- like, say, annoying adware -- and your downloads are (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - Backdoor.Tidserv.K Often when a Trojan arrives on a computer, it saves itself to a specific location. It can save itself on the C: drive, the D: drive, or even somewhere more unusual; for example, in a location with a folder name (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - At a privacy roundtable sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in San Francisco, Facebook Director of Public Policy Tim Sparapani said that 35 percent of the 350 million Facebook users (that's 122 million!) actually checked their privacy settings when (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is now at the centre of a criminal investigation after this (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Switzerland, McAfee announced the results of (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - According to a SPAMfighter, an organization with over 6 million contributors worldwide, Apple-related spam has increased by 30 percent following the announcement of (continue reading...) Read more
January 29, 2010 - If you have been following this series on Trojan.Hydraq over the last week you may have noticed that the blog entries have been well, boring. Because of its profile in the media and varying assessments of the threat posed (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - Laptops containing sensitive records belonging to thousands of Ontario teachers have been stolen, CBC News has learned. The three laptops contained names, addresses, birth dates and social insurance numbers of some 8,600 teachers, most of whom work at elementary (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - The theft of a laptop computer from a medical office has put hundreds of people at a greater risk of identity theft. On Friday, the Methodist Hospital notified 689 people that someone stole a laptop from an office at (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - Why did it take the Commerce Department so long to notify employees that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, had been let loose on the Internet? On Monday, employees were informed by letters mailed to their homes about (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - UC San Francisco said Wednesday that a laptop containing files with information on 4,400 patients was stolen from a UCSF School of Medicine employee on or about November 30. The university said Jan. 27 that it is in the (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - One of the immediate questions about the security leak the state announced today is why did the accounting firm learn about it in early December and reveal it to the state last week? PricewaterhouseCoopers should have acted sooner when (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - McAfee just released a commissioned report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, that shows what we’ve known to be true for a long time. Critical infrastructures ranging from electrical grids, to oil production facilities to (continue reading...) Read more
January 28, 2010 - Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that the home page of the Oklahoma Tax Commission Web site has been compromised with malicious script code. The heavily obfuscated code has been injected at the bottom of the page. (continue reading...) Read more