SAN FRANCISCO - There has been a marked increase in the amount of spam e-mails being sent from Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail accounts, according to analysts at Websense Security Labs. Websense said on Thursday that personalized spam e-mails had been sent from the compromised accounts to all of each user's contacts. The e-mails contain links
SAN FRANCISCO - A new phishing scam is spreading through Twitter via direct messages, according to several reports. Itamar Kestenbaum writes on his JewNews.net blog that he received a direct message on his Twitter account from someone he didn't know that said "rofl this you on here?" followed by a link to what appeared to
WASHINGTON - The government has proposed changing its ban on tracking how consumers use government web sites by using cookies, the Washington Post has reported. A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet sites using such technologies
WASHINGTON DC - The 2009 Annual National InfraGard Congress will be held October 14 by Secure Video Teleconference with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been invited to provide opening remarks. The video teleconference starts at 11 am EDT and closes by 5 pm. The InfraGard National Members Alliance will broadcast from the SVTC
WASHINGTON DC - The month of August has seen Melissa Hathaway resign the Acting Cyber-security Coordination Post and it has not been permanently filled since President Obama announced that he would make Cyber a top priority back in June. Also noteworthy, the State of Missouri's Governor Nixon announced that $1.5M in federal grants were provided
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YPSILANTI ? Eastern Michigan University's Center For Regional And National Security has hired a new staff member, Samir Tout, PhD, who will be teaching and conducting research. He joins CeRNS after a career at Compuware. In other news, the Department of Defense has hired four of CeRNs' eight April graduates. Plus the merger between Information
SAN FRANCISCO - Web 2.0 sites that enable people to create content are increasingly used to carry out a wide range of attacks, according to a new security study. Websense's State of Internet Security, released Tuesday, notes that attackers are focusing their attention on interactive Web 2.0 elements. Some 95 percent of user-generated comments on
SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a U.S.-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday. After a user accesses the phishing site, the chat window messages come through the browser and
STANFORD, Conn. - Security services provided "in the cloud" have the potential to provide cost savings and faster deployment compared with equivalent-capacity, premises-based equipment, but providers are yet to deliver on customer expectations, according to Gartner. And that's bad news in more ways than one, because technologies at the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" on a