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Update: A phishing campaign targeted students and staff of Australian universities last month, according to an advisory from Auscert, Australia's National Emergency Response Team. Companies need to step up their ability to guess where cybercriminals will strike next. Criminal gangs have acquired login details for more than 200,000 websites. Researchers have developed a browser security system that protects against the recently-revealed DNS vulnerability and other Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. The number of reported data breaches has already surpassed last year's total, according to a report from Identity Theft Resource Center. AusCERT's director Nick Tate kicked-off the AusCERT Asia-Pacific Information Security Conference today celebrating the organisation’s 15th birthday in front of more than one thousand local and international delegates.
The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks. Counterfeit networking equipment could jeopardize the security of U.S. military and other government systems, according to an FBI PowerPoint presentation posted on a website covering "alternative” topics. Consumer peer-to-peer (p2p) internet applications are growing at a blistering pace. Evidence is everywhere: worldwide, users send more than 10 billion instant messages every day (J.D. Powers and Associates); Skype's 136 million users account for 7 percent of international long-distance traffic (Morgan Stanley); video file sharing may account for up to 60 percent of all internet traffic (CacheLogic). An intricate network of servers operated by Chinese criminals has moved into the void created when the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN) shut down, according to a report from anti-crimeware vendor Finjan. Born out of the need to protect the country, the Israeli infosec industry is emerging as a global leader. Karl Hart doesn't need to read articles or watch the evening news to know that financially motivated hackers nowadays are finding easy pickings at colleges and universities across the country. A rise in international cyberspying will pose the most significant threat to the national security of the United States in 2008, according to a report from anti-virus vendor McAfee. A new type of threat has emerged that poses a significant risk to businesses - this threat is real. There are examples of it in the news. There are security experts who are warning against the risk. So why are most companies ignoring it? The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has set out security requirements for automated control systems, principally in the power industry, to protect installations against physical and cyber-attacks. The web is not as free as you might think. In some countries, posting critical views online can cost you your freedom. The University of Missouri is the latest university to fall victim to cybercrime, after hackers breached a database and lifted more than 20,000 Social Security numbers (SSNs). OpenNet Initiative finds 26 governments blocking access to 'sensitive' sites. Microsoft will likely have a fix available for a sparsely attacked flaw in Windows Server 2000 and 2003 DNS Service as part of the 8 May Patch Tuesday distribution, according to company researchers. Exploits for a vulnerability in Windows Server 2000 and 2003 DNS Service have been publicly released, but stack-based buffer attacks on the flaw remain limited, according to researchers.