December 22, 2009 — Click here to view this newsletter online.

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Latest News

U.K. police charge pair with connection to Zeus trojan

November 18, 2009

The malevolent Zeus trojan, which aims to steal bank account credentials from infected computers, has taken a blow now that two people have been arrested in connection with its distribution.
 

Law, PR firms targeted

November 18, 2009

The FBI warned Tuesday of an increase in targeted phishing emails containing malicious attachments or links that are being sent to law and public relations firms. If executed, the malicious payload used in the attack attempts to download and execute the file 'srhost.exe' from the domain 'http://d.ueopen.com,' the agency said in an alert. Any network traffic associated with the domain 'ueopen.com' should indicate a network is compromised. — AM
 

Survey finds Mac, PC users are equal cybercrime victims

November 17, 2009

Because of phishing, operating a Mac yields no more protection from cybercrime than running a Windows machine, according to a survey conducted by security firm ESET.
 

Fortinet to become first IT security IPO since 2008

November 17, 2009

Fortinet, maker of UTM appliances, is set to make a rare IT security initital public offering.
 

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Missing Army external hard drive could affect 60,000

November 16, 2009
 

New Verizon Wireless-themed Zeus campaign hits

November 16, 2009

A wave of spam over the weekend, which appeared to come from Verizon Wireless, was instead propagating the information-stealing Zbot trojan.
 

SSL bug used on Twitter

November 16, 2009

Security researcher Anil Kurmus recently demonstrated an attack against Twitter that leveraged a newly released vulnerability in the common data security protocol Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Kurmus showed that an attacker could exploit the SSL vulnerability to steal the Twitter credentials of a user that was authenticated through HTTPS. The SSL renegotiation bug, as it is termed, was unveiled earlier this month by security researchers at mobile phone authentication vendor PhoneFactor. — AM
 

Yahoo Careers website patched to close SQL flaw

November 16, 2009

Yahoo has fixed a dangerous blind SQL vulnerability its career website that could have allowed for the theft of personal data belonging to job hunters.
 

Principal Sponsor —  SC Virtual symposium: Botnets

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Time: 2 - 4pm ET

Click here to register for this FREE online event

Keynote Speaker
Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sponsored by
Damballa

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Call for Papers — SC World Congress New York & SC Congress Canada

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