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The personal information of approximately 46,000 job hunters have been stolen from major job hunting sites by hackers using the so-called Prg trojan to infect victims' computers. When Dr. Gene Spafford and I wrote the original version of the Tripwire software program in 1992, it was to help solve the security problem of how to restore systems to a known good state after they have been compromised. For the second time in four months, Monster.com's website has been victimized by hackers. The latest attack, believed caused by an IFRAME injection vulnerability, forced the jobs website to take part of its web presence offline Monday. Internet-related criminal activities resulted in nearly US$240 million in reported losses in the US, according to the 2007 Internet Crime Report released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the FBI. A juvenile cohort of botmaster Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty this week to using botnets to infect thousands of PCs, including those used by sensitive government agencies. The first drive-by pharming attacks have been spotted in the wild, researchers said this week. Victims of phishing scams in the United States lost US$3.2 billion during a 12-month period ending in August, and the number of people on the receiving end of phishing emails has more than doubled over the past three years, according to a report from Gartner. A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report, which indicates that identity theft among Americans decreased during 2005, is flawed, according to a Gartner analyst who reported significantly different findings earlier this year. A just discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's FTP client can allow a malicious user to crash the application via a malware-laced social engineering attack. Microsoft released two updates, one rated "critical” and the other "important," in this month's round of Patch Tuesday fixes. Mozilla patched eight flaws in its products on Thursday, including “critical” issues in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. The US Business Software Alliance, an advocacy group representing major software manufacturers, has announced that it has raised its reward incentive for turning in suspected software pirates — from US$200,000 to up to US$1 million from July to October. The financial losses related to cybercrime are going down, and the number of businesses willing to report these crimes is going up, according to a new survey co-sponsored by the FBI. Security researchers reported two new vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer this week. Victims of identity theft may have gained a new, powerful ally this week. There’s yet another IT security bandwagon onto which any number of vendors are jumping. And, whether companies refer to it as network access management (NAM), network access control (NAC), or network access protection (NAP), the main question is: Who has the real deal? Internet fraud involving automated teller machine (ATM)/debit cards has victimized about 3 million U.S. consumers and generated losses of $2.75 billion in the past year, according to market-research firm Gartner. New Jersey has formed a Computer Crime Task Force to create a centralized approach to fighting cybercrime. Enhanced federal legislation and closer scrutiny of user behavior were at the top of leading security professionals’ wish lists this week as news of last month’s theft of a TransUnion PC containing the personal credit information of about 3,600 clients spread. Thieves will always steal business ideas, but you can catch them red-handed, says John Patzakis