Category Archives: Current Events
Bank teller arrested for $3.2M theft
A Romanian bank teller was arrested for illegally transferring $3.2M into two bank accounts by using his director’s password. There is no detail in the article to describe how the teller acquired the director’s password but this could have been … Continue reading
Four Undersea Cables Cut In Middle East In Less Than a Week
As many of you may have heard, two undersea cables were cut on January 31st severing internet to millions of users in the middle east. At first it was reported that these cables were severed by a ship’s anchor, but … Continue reading
Electronic voting?: How about OpenSource?
A recent article posted on slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/173241) talks about the possibility of software on electronic voting machines being open source. One claimed benefit is that open source will provide transparency and lessen the distrust that the public have for e-voting. … Continue reading
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
The article is about the recent directive that was signed by President Bush to expand the intelligence community’s involvement to monitor against computer attacks on government systems. The reason for this intiative is because the increasing attacks to government sytems, … Continue reading
Electronic Voting in India
Given the upcoming elections, it seems like an appropriate time to cover an electronic voting system that is not our own, a system that has a significantly different view on security, usability and design.
Search with a little help from your friends (on social networks)
Article As most of you know, social networks are rapidly becoming ubiquitous, with hundreds of millions of users between Facebook (62 million), Myspace (>100 million), and Linkedin (>17 million). Naturally, many companies are trying to take advantage of this fact … Continue reading
Latest on the RIAA and Copyright Infringement
(article) The RIAA is trying to push the PRO-IP bill through Congress, which would grant them more protection under copyright law, including the ability to sue even more for illegal copying of media. Thought $9,000 per song was too much? … Continue reading
Mega-D Botnet overtakes Storm Botnet
A new botnet, called Mega-D, is currently responsible for an estimated 32% of all spam, compared to the Storm botnet’s peak estimate of 21% in September 2007. The Mega-D botnet runs on a distributed peer to peer network, and the … Continue reading
Malicious banner ads appear on Expedia, Rhapsody sites
http://www.scmagazineus.com/Malicious-banner-ads-appear-on-Expedia-Rhapsody-sites/article/104827/ Recently, malicious ad banners that deliver malware had appear on both Expedia and Rhapsody. Clicking on the malicious flash ad banner, SWF_ADHIJACK.A, leads to several re-directions, which eventually result to the installation of a rogue antispyware detected as TROJ_GIDA.A. … Continue reading
Perfect Security: Delusional and Misdirected
I hesitate to post commentary about this article, but feel that is important to deconstruct claims by those believing they have all the answers. Especially when they are posting in high-profile blog sites. InfoWorld’s Security adviser Roger A. Grimes has … Continue reading