Cyber Defense

Illinois, Toronto Companies Win Regional Security Challenge Contest

DEARBORN ? Lincoln Advanced Technologies won the startup category at the Midwest Regional final of the $500,000 Global Security Challenge September 21 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus, while the small to midsize businesses winner was NIMtech. Lincoln of Hinkley, Ill., showcased a mask that they developed to protect against biological, nuclear and chemical agents

By |2010-09-26T00:00:00-04:00September 26th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Facebook Clickjacking Scam Involves Cheerleaders Gone Wild

SAN FRANCSICO - A new clickjacking scam was spreading on Facebook luring victims with a purported video of "cheerleaders gone wild," a security expert warned on Thursday before Facebook shut the attack down. Victims' accounts were posting messages that said "cheerleaders gone wild - have to see this" with a photo of, you guessed it,

By |2010-09-13T00:00:00-04:00September 13th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Microsoft, Adobe Release Toolkit To Block Zero-Day Attacks In Security Flaw

REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft and Adobe Systems have announced that a recently released Microsoft toolkit can be used to block zero-day attacks targeting a security flaw in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader programs. In an advisory published Friday, Microsoft detailed how its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 could be used to short-circuit the threat. Adobe, which

By |2010-09-13T00:00:00-04:00September 13th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Mozilla Upgrades Browser To Defeat Clickjacking

SAN FRANCSICO - Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12, to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking. Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on a computer, CNET News.Com. With Web browsers

By |2010-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Microsoft Uses Courts To Obliterate Waledac Spam Botnet

REDMOND, Wa. - With court backing and a novel use of a civil procedure, Microsoft appears to be close to obliterating the Waledac spam botnet, changing the way online criminal operations are defeated. A magistrate judge in federal court in Virginia is expected to recommend within days that the judge hearing Microsoft's case grant a

By |2010-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Top 7 Internet Scams Of The Decade

SAN FRANCISCO - With 2010 in its' last third, PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has released a ranking of the most widespread scams on the Web from the past 10 years. These include the infamous Nigerian scam, ploys involving beautiful foreign women and money mule schemes based on too-good-to-be-true job offers. "As with all the

By |2010-09-07T00:00:00-04:00September 7th, 2010|Archive, Cyber Defense|