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Update patches kernel flaws. Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report. The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely. Thirty-eight people living in New York have been charged with leveraging stolen consumer data to create bogus credit cards that were then used to purchase high-priced goods, such as computers and televisions, authorities said. The Best Western hotel chain has reportedly suffered what is being claimed as the world's largest cybercrime, resulting in the identity theft of eight million customers. Kaspersky, F-Secure and Grisoft stumped by Virus Bulletin 100. A web security firm has identified a widespread attack in which fake malicious advertisements, able to avoid content scanning, are seeking to infect users of popular websites. To call the Astaro Security Gateway appliance just a UTM would be a major understatement. This product can be loaded with so many feature sets that it could become the only security appliance needed for total protection. A multimillion-dollar state-wide credit card scam has been uncovered in the US, six arrested and four warrants have been issued. Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a division of WellPoint a medical services company in the US , has begun notifying 75,000 members that a compact disc holding their personal and medical information has been lost, according to published reports. Domain registrar GoDaddy.com said it "came under significant and sustained" DDoS attacks on Sunday that temporarily disabled or slowed many of its hosted websites, CISO Neil Warner said in a statement. More than a third of IT professionals believe a major accidental or malicious leak of sensitive corporate data could threaten the future of their business, according to the latest research from McAfee. The Black hat security conference held in Las Vegas last week experienced a major problem – in the shape of three French journalists. When researcher Dan Kaminsky reveals details behind the major DNS protocol vulnerability next month at Black Hat, it may not be such a surprise anymore. Australia’s e-security framework is set to receive a major policy overhaul, the Attorney General Robert McClelland has announced. Security giant McAfee announced today that it has fired its president, and its chairman and CEO has retired from the US headquarters, following an internal investigation that revealed stock option improprieties. A major vulnerability in the BlackBerry Attachment Service could result in a takedown of the enterprise server that supports the popular mobile devices.
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.
Adobe has updated its Reader and Acrobat products to shore up a major vulnerability that already is being exploited in the wild. Chinese police have arrested a 19 year-old suspected of hacking into a seismology website and falsely warning of a major earthquake, according to state media..