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Internet hit by wave of ransom malware.

Criminals re-used an attack from 2008 to hit the Internet with a huge wave of ransomware in recent weeks, a security company has reported.

Internet hit by wave of ransom malware

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Attacker reportedly holds Virginia patient data hostage
« Reply #76 on: May 05, 2009, 02:40:35 AM »
Attacker reportedly holds Virginia patient data hostage
5 May 2009, 2:23 am



An attacker tried to extort $10 million after breaking into a Virginia state Web site used to track prescription drug abuse and allegedly holding the data hostage, according to a posting on the Wikileaks Web site.

The ransom message on the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program site read:

"I have your [...



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Will the Hathaway report lead to action?
« Reply #75 on: May 04, 2009, 09:40:19 PM »
Will the Hathaway report lead to action?
4 May 2009, 7:59 pm

President Obama in early February assigned Melissa Hathaway, a former consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, to review the status of the nation's cybersecurity defenses, processes, and organization and report back to him with the findings 60 days hence.  The president now has the results of the Hathaway study and ...



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Inventor: SSL not to blame for security woes
« Reply #74 on: May 04, 2009, 06:40:45 PM »
Inventor: SSL not to blame for security woes
4 May 2009, 4:31 pm

At the RSA Conference last month in San Francisco, Taher Elgamal was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award--only the third recipient of the award since its inception in 2004.

Taher Elgamals

The chief security officer of Axway has more than 25 years of experience in the security industry, starting out as ...



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Feds' red tape left medical devices infected with computer virus
« Reply #73 on: May 02, 2009, 06:40:18 PM »
Feds' red tape left medical devices infected with computer virus
2 May 2009, 6:29 pm





The Conficker Internet virus has infected important computerized medical devices, but governmental red tape interfered with their repair, an organizer of an antivirus working group told Congress on Friday.

Rodney Joffe, one of the founders of an unofficial organization known as the Conficker Working Group, said that government regulations prevented ...



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Log toggling speeds up Cloud Antivirus
« Reply #72 on: May 02, 2009, 08:11:28 AM »
Log toggling speeds up Cloud Antivirus
2 May 2009, 2:55 am



By pushing as much resource usage as possible into the clouds, Panda Security's new Cloud Antivirus aims to free up the RAM hogging that plagues many security programs. However, testing the new beta revealed slower-than-anticipated scan speeds when doing an on-demand full hard drive scan. Panda's got a ...

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Swine flu e-mail in Spanish links to data-stealing Trojan
« Reply #71 on: May 02, 2009, 08:11:16 AM »
Swine flu e-mail in Spanish links to data-stealing Trojan
2 May 2009, 1:50 am



An e-mail referencing a vaccine for swine flu is circulating that includes a link to a malicious file on a Mexican Web site that is designed to steal bank log-in information, security firm SonicWall said on Friday.

The e-mail, which is in Spanish, has a link to the Qhost.NJI ...



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Lime Wire tells Congress its P2P software is safe now
« Reply #70 on: May 02, 2009, 08:11:03 AM »
Lime Wire tells Congress its P2P software is safe now
2 May 2009, 12:11 am



In response to the reopening of an investigation into inadvertent file sharing with peer-to-peer software, an executive for Lime Wire told Congress in a letter on Friday that the new version of the program is "the most secure file-sharing software available."

The main investigative committee in the U.S. House ...

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Twitter's network gets breached again
« Reply #69 on: May 01, 2009, 11:11:13 PM »
Twitter's network gets breached again
1 May 2009, 8:02 pm



Twitter has confirmed that someone broke into its network and gained access to 10 accounts, which appear to include Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher, according to screenshots posted on a French blog site.  

"Our initial security reviews and investigations indicate that no account information was altered or removed in any ...



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USPS probes possible mass security breach
« Reply #68 on: May 01, 2009, 09:10:46 PM »
USPS probes possible mass security breach
1 May 2009, 8:32 pm

This story was originally published at CBSNews.com.

CBS News has learned of another data breach potentially compromising the personal information of thousands of people. Companies Lexis Nexis and Investigative Professionals have sent up to 40,000 letters to customers whose "sensitive and personally identifiable" information may have been viewed ...



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Twitter's network gets hacked again
« Reply #67 on: May 01, 2009, 09:10:45 PM »
Twitter's network gets hacked again
1 May 2009, 8:02 pm



Twitter has confirmed that someone broke into its network and gained access to 10 accounts, which appear to include Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher, according to screenshots posted on a French blog site.  

"Our initial security reviews and investigations indicate that no account information was altered or removed in any ...



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Facebook hit by phishing attacks for a second day
« Reply #66 on: April 30, 2009, 10:40:28 PM »
Facebook hit by phishing attacks for a second day
30 April 2009, 6:55 pm



Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing with a worm on the site that lures people to a fake Facebook page and prompts them to log in.

Unsuspecting Facebook users get a message from a friend urging them to "check this out" ...



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Cloud Antivirus runs smooth but slow
« Reply #65 on: April 30, 2009, 02:40:18 AM »
Cloud Antivirus runs smooth but slow
30 April 2009, 2:04 am



Earlier Wednesday, Panda Security introduced Cloud Antivirus beta, the first full-featured cloud-based antivirus program. It does two things that make it competitive and unique compared with its competitors that are tied to your desktop: it prioritizes threats based on type, and it attempts to lighten the load that security programs ...

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Panda introduces cloud-based free antivirus
« Reply #64 on: April 29, 2009, 11:41:14 AM »
Panda introduces cloud-based free antivirus
29 April 2009, 9:00 am



With threats like Conficker fresh in the public's mind, security remains a top concern for Windows users. Panda Security, publishers of Panda Internet Security and Panda Antivirus, is set to take antivirus where it hasn't been yet: into the clouds. Panda Cloud Antivirus beta bets that nearly three ...

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Phishing with swine flu as bait
« Reply #63 on: April 29, 2009, 08:41:06 AM »
Phishing with swine flu as bait
28 April 2009, 11:32 pm



Phishers and spammers have caught swine flu fever and are exploiting fears around the outbreak to try to sell pharmaceutical products or steal information, security experts said Tuesday.

The e-mail scams have a subject line related to the swine flu and typically contain either a link to a phishing Web ...



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Finovate: Privacy is dead, long live the PIN
« Reply #62 on: April 29, 2009, 02:40:30 AM »
Finovate: Privacy is dead, long live the PIN
29 April 2009, 2:10 am



What's something we often use for security in the real world but not online? PIN codes. We use them at stores, banks, and ATMs, so why not use them online? For one, a QWERTY keyboard lets you create a much stronger, and often easier-to-remember password than you could with ...

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