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Spammers have launched their 2008 holiday season spam campaigns using email to tout pharmaceutical products and casino spam with a Christmas angle.
Spammers will use the upcoming US elections as a means to increase spam volumes, security firm BitDefender has warned. Campaign videos used to spread Trojans. The battle between Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton extended to cyberspace when a prankster over the weekend exploited a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the website of the Illinois senator to redirect traffic to Clinton's homepage. Just a few hours after Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the US, malicious emails are being sent offering a video with his advisors. Spam messages promoting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul that were distributed in October have been traced to a Ukrainian botmaster. Paris Hilton has topped the list of celebrities used by malware writers to tempt users into downloading a virus.
California's secretary of state has decertified the voting machines of four companies, saying the security of their systems is "too flawed to be widely used." The Swiss national elections on 21 October will mark a world first for Geneva as the canton employs quantum cryptography to protect the dedicated line used for counting ballots. OpenNet Initiative finds 26 governments blocking access to 'sensitive' sites. The Social Security numbers (SSNs) of 1.3 million Chicago voters were compromised when they were distributed to city aldermen and ward committeemen this month. Democratic lawmakers supportive of privacy and information security reform will soon get the chance to quicken legislation after the GOP on Tuesday lost control of the House of Representatives and likely the Senate, a leading security lobbyist said today. Although the latest variant of the Sober worm has so far been all bark and no bite, some security experts have warned PC users that the bilingual virus' threat isn’t over yet. Hours after Sober's planned reactivation date had passed, there was no activity by the virus, security firms said Friday. The first worm epidemic of the new year - the latest variant of the Sober worm - is poised to strike at the end of this workweek, security experts have warned. The recent Sober.AH epidemic could form part of an orchestrated neo-Nazi strategy to saturate mailboxes worldwide with pro-Nazi spam, security experts have warned. Uk computer misuse legislation may take a little longer to reform than was first planned. SC Magazine has a new Editorial Advisory Board. Illena Armstrong polled the members for their views on the trends facing IT security, taking in topics ranging from vendor consolidation to the impact of the Patriot Act With the mid-term elections come and gone, it’s time for the Bush Administration to re-focus its attention on protecting cyberspace. Both forensics and ethical hacking, says Gunter Ollmann, are needed to investigate critical security events