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The Thai government has decided to close down and block over 1600 websites, purportedly in the name of national security. The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has admitted that the number of its customers hit by a data breach was much larger than previously stated. Organisations that block access to sites such as Facebook are limiting the use of critical business tools necessary to a Generation Y workforce, argued Symantec executives in Sydney on Tuesday.
A 24-year-old, who admitted to phishing AOL users during a four-year period, has received seven years in prison. The Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum, which looked at the advantages and security risks of Web 2.0 technology use in the enterprise, debuted today in New York. The questions of "who" and "why" in identity theft remain largely ignored. That is, "Who is after online identities? And what for?" Social networks such as LinkedIn are being exploited by online fraudsters, experts warned today.. The popularity of online streaming videos, social-networking and shopping sites have created new attack vectors for hackers to spread malicious code that could wreak havoc on company networks. Traffic analysis can help warn of terrorist attacks, but it can also be used to crack encryption, so we need to act now. In its largest security update in 18 months, Microsoft on Tuesday delivered 11 patches to resolve 26 vulnerabilities in its operating system and related components. Amnesty International is calling for Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft to stop allowing the Chinese government to censor the Internet for its citizens. Security experts have developed a hybrid file type that looks like an image but can also run a Java applet surreptitiously in a browser.
With the opening ceremony only four days away, online fraudsters are using the hype of the Beijing Olympics to trick consumers out of thousands of dollars. People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). A new wave of spam messages related to Angelina Jolie are spreading with the intention to trick users into downloading and installing malware. Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today. A major job site is the latest phishing attack target. According to a McAfee Avert Labs blog, Monster.com was made to seem the source of phishing emails.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is speaking out about a recent round of attacks perpetrated against its sites. Australia’s e-security framework is set to receive a major policy overhaul, the Attorney General Robert McClelland has announced. Stronger international cooperation to fight cybercrime moved a step forward on Wednesday with the signing of the Seoul Declaration at the OECD Ministerial meeting in Korea, but will Australia benefit?