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[Silvey]

Adobe Plugs Thirteen Holes in Reader and Acrobat on Patch Tuesday
10 June 2009, 2:10 pm

Adobe has officially started its quarterly update cycle for its Reader and Acrobat products yesterday, by addressing thirteen flaws. This is part of the company's code-hardening efforts, which were announced a few weeks ago.

The Adobe Reader and Acrobat are currently deployed in millions of computers around the world... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

3FN Takedown Cripples Cutwail Spam Botnet
10 June 2009, 11:35 am

Security vendors are starting to release spam statistics after the recent FTC shutdown of 3FN. The most affected spam botnet seems to be Cutwail/Pushdo, but the total impact is far from close to that resulting from the McColo takedown.

In early June, U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte, for the Northern District of California, Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

McAfee Releases Buggy Patch for VirusScan Enterprise
10 June 2009, 10:05 am

A service pack-like update for McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i, which has been in the making for several months, was pulled from download on June 2, after it caused problems to customers. False positives on some system files, which were detected as W32/Generic.worm.aa and deleted, left computers unbootable.

Various McAfee cust... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

VAServ Hack Results in Massive Data Loss
9 June 2009, 12:13 pm

A 0-day vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application produced by Lxlabs, led to a major hack on the servers of VAServ, a UK-based hosting provider. The attackers obtained root access and wiped large portions of the data.

VAServ is a low-cost virtual private server (VPS) provider serving thousands of customers. The company has serve... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Hackers Claim Massive T-Mobile Data Breach
9 June 2009, 10:24 am

On Saturday, wireless telecommunications giant T-Mobile was faced with a grim prospective, after hackers publicly announced that they successfully stole all of the corporate data from its U.S. branch. The unknown perpetrators claim they initially attempted to sell the sensitive information to the company's competitors without success.

With... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Hacker Joins the Homeland Security Advisory Council
6 June 2009, 12:28 pm

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in the sixteen members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) yesterday. Amongst them is Jeff Moss, the founder of the Black Hat and DEFCON hacking ... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Major U.S. Retailer Settles FTC Spyware Charges
6 June 2009, 10:59 am

Sears Holdings Management Corporation, owner of Sears and Kmart retail chains, has agreed to settle the charges brought on by the Federal Trade Commission for promoting a data collecting software program to customers, but failing to properly disclo... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

U.S. Government Leaks List of Civilian Nuclear Sites
5 June 2009, 2:45 pm

A document entitled "The List of Sites, Locations, Facilities, and Activities Declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency" has been mistakenly published by the Government Printing Office (GPO) on its website. The 266-page document contains sensitive information about civilian nuclear programs in the United States and should have been su... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Webmail Service CEO: Hack My E-mail, Get $10,000
5 June 2009, 12:15 pm

Strong Webmail, a webmail service featuring enhanced security, has recently challenged hackers to break into its CEO's e-mail account in order to win $10,000. It took a team of well-known security researchers under two weeks to succeed, through cross-site scripting.

The hacking contest is part of a marketing campaign in which the compan... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Rogue ISP Shut Down by the FTC
5 June 2009, 10:23 am

A district court judge has ordered Pricewert, a company incorporated in Oregon, to cease all operations after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against it for knowingly and actively collaborating with cybercrooks, to whom ... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

ATM Malware Takes Off
4 June 2009, 1:15 pm

Following a March report from Sophos regarding a Trojan that infects Diebold ATMs and steals credit card data, another similar piece of malware has been analyzed (PDF) by researchers from Trustwave. The malicious ... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

2004 Data Breach Prompts Game Changing Lawsuit
4 June 2009, 11:44 am

Four years after a major data breach occurred at CardSystems Solutions, the auditing company that certified the payment processor is taken to court by the bank that contracted with CardSystems based on its report. Experts say that the lawsuit could set an important precedent for auditor accountability.

Utah-based Merrick Bank sued Savv... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Outlook Users Targeted by Phishers
4 June 2009, 9:38 am

Security researchers warn of a new phishing campaign that looks to steal e-mail accounts from Outlook users. Users are falsely informed that their e-mail client needs to be re-configured online on a fake page under the control of the attackers. A related malware distribution attack has also been reported.

The offending e-mails, with a subject of "... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

Online Merchant's Server Hacking Results in Data Breach
3 June 2009, 2:12 pm

Batteries.com, a supplier of batteries and accessories for electronic consumer products, has announced a data breach incident after unknown individuals obtained unauthorized access to the server used to host its online store. Customer names, addresses and credit card details were stolen and some of the information has already been used... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security

[Silvey]

New Mass Web Attack Makes 40,000 Victims
3 June 2009, 12:25 pm

Researchers from Internet security vendor Websense warn of a new wave of web attacks that has resulted in 40,000 websites being compromised. The new threat injects malicious obfuscated JavaScript code, which subsequently loads and attempts to execute numerous exploits from a third-party server.

According to the company, these attacks are dif... (read more)

Source: Softpedia News - Security