Thursday, June 23, 2011

Ukraine disrupts $72M Conficker hacking ring

Computerworld Security: June 23, 2011
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Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring
that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker, a
fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008.
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Cloud-based email services can offer full protection with the promise of
availability and reliability too.

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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Update: Feds bust international gangs distributing scareware products
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517955/0/

2. 90% of companies say they've been hacked: Survey
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517956/0/

3. LulzSec members to be outed by hacking group
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517957/0/

4. U.K. police charge hacker linked to LutzSec
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517958/0/

5. Brazilian government, energy company latest LulzSec victims
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517959/0/

6. Startup Bromium takes aim at cloud security
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517960/0/

7. Home port for security departments?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517961/0/

8. Darragh Delaney: File hosting services and their data leakage risks, Part II
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517962/0/

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Why Web Security is Best Served in the Cloud

Download this informative whitepaper to find out why web security is best served
in the cloud. Fran Howarth, Bloor Research senior security analyst, examines the
benefits of applying protection where threats are being created - at the
Internet layer.

http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517963/0/

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Update: Feds bust international gangs distributing scareware products

U.S. federal law enforcement authorities working in cooperation with their
counterparts in more than 10 countries have disrupted the operations of two
gangs responsible for distributing malicious scareware programs to more than 1
million people.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517955/0/

90% of companies say they've been hacked: Survey

A a survey of 583 U.S companies, 90% of the respondents said their companies
computers were breached at least once by hackers over the past 12 months.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517956/0/

LulzSec members to be outed by hacking group

A hacking group in the Netherlands promises to publish photos, phone numbers and
addresses of LulzSec members in response to similar treatment by LulzSec.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517957/0/

U.K. police charge hacker linked to LutzSec

Authorities in the U.K. today charged a 19-year-old with using a botnet he
controlled to take down the Web site of a national police unit.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517958/0/

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Brazilian government, energy company latest LulzSec victims

Websites belonging to the Brazilian government and energy giant Petrobras were
knocked offline Wednesday in a series of cyberattacks.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517959/0/

Startup Bromium takes aim at cloud security

Simon Crosby, the former CTO of Citrix Systems' data center and cloud business,
has formed a startup called Bromium that will aim to solve security problems in
a cloud environment.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517960/0/

Home port for security departments?

In June of 2003, we ran a long article about organizational structures. We
titled it "All Over the Map," which pretty much tells you what we concluded
about how security was handled at the time: a bit like a ship with no home port,
passing from executive to executive. The article had examples of security
variously reporting to Human Resources, Facilities, Operations, Legal, and IT.
Responsibility without authority was a theme.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517961/0/

Darragh Delaney: File hosting services and their data leakage risks, Part II

Over the past few months I have looked at a range of file hosting services.
While using these services, I have being monitoring the network traffic as I
upload and download files. So far I have found that most of the popular files
hosting services use encryption for sending and receiving data.

http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7400292/818816221/517962/0/

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