22:45 Conference: 21st Annual FIRST ConferenceThe Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together computer security incident response teams (CSIRT's) and includes response t... >>>
22:39 Conference: Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 7x)SCALE 7X, is the 7th Annual Southern California Linux Expo. As the premier community run Linux / Open Source conference, it will feature tutorial sessions designed to show users of all skill levels wh... >>>
PayPal, the online payment service that is a major target of phishers, has been caught sending customer emails that confuse its own login page with a third-party landing site that offers spyware protection and a bevy of other products.
20:34 Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drivesUnder sustained attack from what is described as a rapidly spreading network worm, the U.S. army has banned the use of USB sticks, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices, according to internal e-mail messages seen by Wired’s Noah Shachtman.
According to the article, service members have been ordered to “cease usage [...] >>>
06:19 Off the wire: Security issues in group managementAccording to a study conducted by Osterman Research and sponsored by Imanami, 42 percent of organizations report unauthorized access of information through Active Directory. >>>
President elect Barack Obama's embrace of online video and social networking may have propelled him to victory, but unless he's careful, his administration could be brought down by the same sloppy security problems that have plagued MySpace, Facebook, and dozens of other Web 2.0 properties.
02:49 What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?It has been over a week since the takedown of an ISP responsible for directing a large portion of Internet’s spam. While many groups immediately hailed a massive drop in spam, the true story was more nuanced.
Everyone, save the spammers, hates spam, and this story has generated quite a bit of interest throughout the [...] >>>
The PDF document holds a single paged scan of an internally distributed mail from German telecommunications company T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom), revealing over two dozen secret IP address ranges in use by the German intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Independent evidence shows that the claim is almost certainly true and the document itself has been verified by a demand letter from T-systems to Wikileaks.
