Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world’s elite hackers have warned.
They claim it is only a “matter of time” before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted.
Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia’s government and some firms last year, they warned.
The experts were members of the infamous “Hackers Panel” which convened in London this week at the InfoSecurity Europe conference.
The panel includes penetration testers and so-called “white hat” hackers, who help companies tighten up their digital security by searching for flaws in their defences.
Previous panellists include Gary McKinnon, known as Solo, alleged by the US government to have hacked into dozens of US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense computers.
The “hackers” usually remain anonymous, “for security reasons”, but this year’s panellists agreed to break cover.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Web designers making very old mistakes are letting malicious hackers hijack visitors to their sites, say experts. Many of the loopholes left in the code created for websites have been known about for almost a decade say the security researchers. The poor practices are proving very attractive to hi-tech criminals looking for a ready source of victims. According to Symantec the number of sites vulnerable in this way almost doubled during the last half of 2007.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Yes, that number includes all malicious software: viruses, worms and trojans.
That’s what security firm Symantec Corp said in the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report. The company added that most of these were created in the past year.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
On the 8th of April 2008, the BBC reported that the US homeland security chief has made a heartfelt plea to Silicon Valley workers to stand up and be counted in the fight to secure the cyber highway.
Michael Chertoff invoked the attacks of 9/11 as he sought to galvanise IT professionals and security experts.
He told the world’s biggest IT security conference that serious threats to cyberspace are on “a par this country tragically experienced on 9/11″.
Such attacks can hit financial bodies and a government’s powers, he said.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The RSAConference claims to be the most comprehensive forum in information security.
The 2008 edition in the US claim to have 17,000 attendees from the industry’s best and brightest.
There are 19 class tracks and more than 220 sessions.
Keynote addresses from Microsoft, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, CA, VeriSign, Symantec, TippingPoint, Oracle, and IBM.
Many networking (the human sort) events such as the Peer2Peer Sessions, First-Time Attendee Orientation, Welcome Reception, and the annual RSA® Conference Codebreakers Bash.
More than 350 exhibitors.
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