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Automated intrusion worms go around exploiting network vulnerabilities at a rapid rate and can be hard to beat. Kevin Mandia talks about some tried and tested methods used in response to these type of attacks Hackers have targeted the 1.7 million customers of BTOpenworld in a scam that tries to get them to open the Bagel virus. Although aware of the attack, BTOpenworld has so far failed to take action to advise potential victims on how to protect themselves. Security experts have discovered a toolkit designed to exploit the recently disclosed Microsoft Exploit-MS04-028, popularly dubbed the "Image of Death". With the number of cyber attacks escalating, dealing with digital evidence is becoming a pressing issue. Simon Janes gives you a helping hand, guiding you right through from the crime scene to the court room Typically, IT security professionals couldn't care less about public relations. They are too busy trying to keep their companies' computer systems securely up and running. And that particular duty is not simple. The Department of Justice Thursday said an investigation this summer into online fraud and crime has led to more than 150 arrests or convictions nationwide. Phishing attackers are now including Trojan code, which could log keystrokes and capture passwords. The US Government has launched a website for victims of junk email to report spammers. The general malaise and recession in the telecommunications sector seems to claim new victims every month. About 3 percent of the nation’s households were victims of identity theft during a six-month period in 2004, losing about $3.2 billion to fraudsters, the U.S. Justice Department announced Sunday. ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $10 million in fines, the largest civil penalty ever imposed by the Federal Trade Commission, and $5 million in consumer compensation, to settle charges that the data broker’s record-handling procedures violated consumers’ privacy rights. “The message to ChoicePoint and others should be clear: Consumers’ private data must be protected from thieves,” said Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the FTC. The company admitted last year that a data breach compromised the personal information of at least 163,000 customers, with 800 becoming identity theft victims, the FTC said. An initial test of new technology by credit card company Mastercard has revealed around 10,000 card accounts being traded illegally. VirtualMDA is an email enterprise that seems to offer a hassle-free way for users to earn a dollar, but there is a catch – your PC becomes a conduit for junk email. Mark Sunner reveals the darker side of a spammer’s tool The Federal Trade Commission has charged two phishermen for using false information to obtain sensitive data. The FTC is under pressure from US Congress to fine spyware users millions of dollars. Think what the world of IT was like in 1990. A few lucky researchers, military personnel, government workers and assorted hangers-on would have been able to enjoy the novelty of fledgling email and internet services. If you were a forward-thinking large corporate, you might well have a mainframe or a minicomputer network storing and processing crucial data and, although dial-up modems could connect systems to each other and enable remote terminal access, viruses and hack-attacks were minor worries. The occasional infected floppy disc might contain some malware that could potentially compromise the contents of your expensive 40mb hard drive, but a relatively up-to-date antivirus programme would probably protect you. Hackers and virus writers were mostly a minority sub-culture of cyber-kids operating from their bedrooms bragging and swapping war stories on underground bulletin boards. In this article, the concept of 'data responsibility' is proposed, a concept which requires the realization that - in the modern electronic age - owners and users of information which may be regarded as private (credit card details and other personally identifiable information) must take some responsibility for the guardianship of this information. In the run-up to Valentine’s Day, security experts have warned that a recent jump in the number of online dating sites across the world can be at least partly attributed to the increase in malevolent websites used by cyber criminal as an opportune moment for phishing, spam and hacker attacks on unsuspecting victims. So-called 'brand spoof' spam scams have increased almost 500 percent since January.