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Hannaford Card Theft Captors’ Patience Paid Off | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Hannaford Card Theft Captors’ Patience Paid Off March 18th, 2008 by Jovi Umawing The Associated Press and CNet News reported earlier this week of a data intrusion to Hannaford Bros. , a supermarket chain based in Portland, Maine, wherein 4.2 million accounts had been stolen. The company had already issued...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-19-2008
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Security, Cybercrime
King Soloway Sings Guilty | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

King Soloway Sings Guilty March 18th, 2008 by JM Hipolito The man who has reportedly raked in $300,000 from spam operations pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion last friday, PC World reports . Aptly dubbed “King of Spam” by authorities, Robert Soloway was arrested in May 2007 by the US...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-19-2008
Filed under: In the News, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
Another Robert Confesses to Cybercrime | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Another Robert Confesses to Cybercrime March 18th, 2008 by JM Hipolito Hmmm… Are most cyber criminals named Robert? Just recently, the “King of Spam” Robert Soloway pleaded guilty to charges against him as another Robert, 21-year-old Robert Matthew Bentley of Panama City, Florida also pleaded guilty...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-19-2008
Filed under: In the News, Security, Cybercrime
Formula 1 racing and computer security - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Formula 1 racing and computer security Posted by Mikko @ 08:36 GMT | postCount('00001405'); Comments (2) Let's see. There's 14 hours to go before the next Formula 1 Grand Prix starts in the Sepang circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - not too far away from our Malaysian research lab. Will...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-20-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security, Cybercrime
BBB is back - SANS Internet Storm Center;

ActiveX is evil... BBB is back Published: 2008-03-19, Last Updated: 2008-03-19 23:34:02 UTC by Adrien de Beaupre (Version: 2) We have two separate reports of BBB targeted phishing (AKA spear phishing) attacks. Both are using the URL: hxxp://www.national-bbb.com/complaints/ViewReport.php... The site tries...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-20-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Browser Wars, Internet Explorer, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime
StealthMBR Rootkit Enhances Its Capabilities - McAfee Avert Labs Blog

StealthMBR Rootkit Enhances Its Capabilities Wednesday March 19, 2008 at 6:28 pm CST Posted by Aditya Kapoor Trackback Yesterday we received new variants of the StealthMBR rootkit from the field. The basic strategy of overwriting the master boot record and hooking the IRP table of \\driver\disk to protect...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Cybercrime
Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups Posted by lab @ 16:24 GMT | postCount('00001406'); Comment (1) There's unrest on the streets of Tibet - clashes between Tibetians and the Chinese military. Quoting Wikipedia, "Tibet was once an independent kingdom, which later became...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime
D-Link router based worm? - SANS Internet Storm Center

D-Link router based worm? Published: 2008-03-21, Last Updated: 2008-03-21 16:44:10 UTC by donald smith (Version: 1) Yesterday we were notified by one of our contributors Fausto Zuin of unusual activity. He was seeing lots of full TCP connect scans to destination port 23. I examined data based on some...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2008
Filed under: Internet Hacks, Security, Cybercrime
Cyber attacks against Tibetan communities - SANS Internet Storm Center

Cyber attacks against Tibetan communities Published: 2008-03-21, Last Updated: 2008-03-21 17:08:39 UTC by Maarten Van Horenbeeck (Version: 2) There is lots of media coverage on the protests in Tibet. Something that lies under the surface, and rarely gets a blip in the press, are the various targeted...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-21-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Patch Management, Internet Hacks, Cybercrime, Software Vulnerabilites
Better Business Bureau Phish with Trojan Downloader | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Better Business Bureau Phish with Trojan Downloader March 23rd, 2008 by Fatima Bancod The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the target of a new phishing scam, in which a user is asked to download a rogue ActiveX installer upon visiting the Web site www.national-bbb.com/complaints/ViewReport.php?case=509134429&biz...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-24-2008
Filed under: Internet Applications, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime

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