U.S. military networks not prepared for cyber threats, report warns
The U.S. is dangerously unprepared to face a full-scale cyber conflict launched by a peer adversary, a report by the military's Defense Science Board (DSB) warns.
The report, released in January, and first reported on by the Washington Post on Tuesday, is based on an 18-month study of the resilience of U.S. military systems to cyberattacks.
It reflects the perspective of 24-members of a DSB Task Forcem who interviewed more than four-dozen Department of Defense (DoD) officials, members of the U.S. intelligence community, policy makers and security practitioners from private industry, academia and national laboratories. Read more...
Google warns the operators of thousands of hacked web sites
The head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that Google has sent out a message to the webmasters of 20,000 sites informing them that their sites may have been hacked. In the email message, the company warns operators that the affected sites appear to be being used to redirect visitors to a malicious site. Read more...
Global warming catastrophe: Island nation swallowed whole by the sea
Scientists have warned for years about the dangers of global warming, raising the grim specter of rising sea levels and cities being swallowed by the ocean. It all seemed more like a Hollywood movie plot than reality. But for residents of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, global warming is a terrifying real problem: Their entire country is about to be submerged under water. Read more...
Apple fights fake anti-virus software vendors
Apple Inc is fighting what security experts say may be the most pernicious types of computer virus to ever target its line of Mac computers.
The company has issued a security advisory warning to customers about a recent scam that infects Macs with malicious software that wrongly tells them their computer is infected with a virus. The ultimate goal is to get credit card numbers and other valuable personal information.
It is one of the first major campaigns that cyber crooks have launched against Mac users. To date, criminals have focused on writing malicious software for machines running Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system, which inhabits more than nine of every 10 personal computers. Read more...
Microsoft warns about Social Network viruses and data theft
The next time you are prompted to enter your facebook or twitter password after clicking on some nice ad, make sure the location bar of the browser says 'facebook.com' or 'twitter.com.'
Gone are the days of alluring emails asking you to part with your bank account details to claim your million dollar prize, cyber criminals now prefer to 'hang out' at your favorite social networking site.
According to the Security Intelligence Report -- a quarterly security-related update from the World's biggest software firm Microsoft -- social networks accounted for 84.5 percent of all attempts to steal personal data from users in December 2010. Read more...
Kaspersky warns on Bin Laden videos, news
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has alerted Facebook and Google search engine users from Bin Laden’s death video and news spam they may be infected with.
Spammers were quite fast to reach both Windows and Mac users, and started to poison searches results in Google Images, a statement said.
Some of the search results are now leading users to malicious pages, so when clicking an image in the results page, the user will be redirected to one of the malicious domains such as -antivirus.cz.cc/fast-scan/ or pe-antivirus.cz.cc/fast-scan/, it added. Read more...