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This is something I had expected to happen with the advent of Adobe's Flash player being baked into Chrome, and this is a logical step forward since these files are ubiquitous on the web. At the forefront of this move are issues with security. There have been problems (and McAfee has pointed them out) with suspect PDF files causing havoc on machines.This is something I had expected to happen with the advent of Adobe's Flash... more
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Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world's most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
According to court documents, former employees and investigators, a receptionist greeted visitors at the door of the company, known as Innovative Marketing Ukraine. Communications cables lay jumbled on the floor and a small coffee maker sat on the desk of one worker. ... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/286-inside-a-global-cybercrime-ringHundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college,... more
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The place hummed like any three-story corporate headquarters. Phones ringing, partitions separating and computer screens hypnotizing gave the place that clean-cut, business-edgy, human resource look. But, the business just wasn’t all that ordinary.
Students, geeks, programmers and hackers occupied three floors in Kiev, Ukraine pumping out code – pernicious code. Called Innovative Marketing Ukraine, or IMU, the motivation of this business was to infiltrate the most complex computer networks, highjack the valuable quarry and subvert any pursuit of pursuers.The place hummed like any three-story corporate headquarters. Phones ringing,... more
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Data security vendors like Mcafee, IBM, Fidelis Security, Symantec, Verdasys, Reconnex, Vericept, Raytheon, Websense and Checkpoint have written thousands of white papers on how their data security products can help an organization be HIPAA compliant, but log-management cannot mitigate dumpster-diving, nor can it prevent bulk database dumps and file transfer.Data security vendors like Mcafee, IBM, Fidelis Security, Symantec, Verdasys,... more
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"In the cruelest of ironies, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally coughed up the personal details of some 1400 attendees of its recent security conference in Sydney, Australia. Those who were sent the list — attached as a spreadsheet to a thank you e-mail — are far from pleased that such an extraordinary thing could happen. McAfee, which sells products to 'stop sensitive and protected data from leaving the enterprise through email and web traffic' has blamed 'human error' for the blunder and is 'taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.'"In the cruelest of ironies, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally... more
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“We see many signs that criminals are mimicking the practices embraced by successful, legitimate businesses to reap revenue and grow their enterprises” -Tom Gillis, VP and general manager of Cisco.
According to Cisco Systems’ Midyear Security Report, issued July 14, online criminals are exploiting traditional business strategies as they continue to flourish amid a shaky global economy.“We see many signs that criminals are mimicking the practices embraced by... more
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