InsideDefense.com and Wired.com today reported that U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) has lifted last year’s ban on the use of removable storage devices inside the Department of Defense.
USB flash drives and other removable storage devices were banned by the DoD in November 2008 after a military network was infected by the Agent.btz worm, which was introduced [...]
In November 2008, the US Department of Defense banned the use of USB flash drives and other removable medial on all Defense Department networks, after a DoD network was infected by a USB flash drive that had an autorun malware on it.
Today, Navy Vice Admiral Carl Mauney, deputy commander of the United States Strategic Command [...]
Banking analyst firm Javelin Strategy & Research has released their 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report. They surveyed a nationally representative sample of 5,000 US adults, including 703 fraud victims. People were asked a 50-question phone interview to gain insight into crime and the effects on victims.
The report found that there were more victims [...]
Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum had an interesting debate this week regarding anonymity on the Internet. Bruce ascertains that anonymity will always be there (and I agree that the TOR project basically proves it), whereas Marcus argues that limited anonymity for whistle blowers is good, but should eventually be compromised.
What do you [...]
Experi-Metal Inc. (EMI) in Sterling Heights, MI is suing Comerica Bank to recover $550,000 that was stolen from the company’s online banking account. EMI alleges that Dallas-based Comerica opened its customers to phishing attacks by sending emails asking customers to click on a link to update the bank’s security software. EMI says even though [...]
Security researchers at SecureWorks have discovered a new trojan malware family designed to infect the computers of business finance professionals, and steal money from corporate bank accounts when they log into those accounts over the Internet.
They have dubbed the new malicious software “Bugat”.
This appears to be a different strain than the Zeus banking trojan that [...]
A town supervisor in Poughkeepsie, New York has criticized TD Bank after online criminals transferred $379,000 from the city’s bank account to the Ukraine.
It seems that malware infected the computer that the comptroller of the town uses to access the bank’s corporate banking system. Cyber criminals were then able to steal the bank account [...]
We chose the IronKey solution as it is AES standard hardware encryption which can’t be circumvented. The central policy management was another key criteria combined with the managed service …that we could disable a device if missing in action, and that it would self-destruct following a set number of failed login attempts was another strong selling point.
In a very strange turn of events, PlainsCapital bank is suing its customer, Hillary Machinery Inc, in a case regarding cyber-theft.
It seems that in November 2009, Romanian fraudsters gained access to the usernames and passwords of Hillary Machine’s online corporate bank account with PlainsCapital. They transfered $800,000 out of the account. The bank [...]
The Anti-Phishing Working Group released their fraud report for Q3 2009. They found a record number of phishing reports, unique phishing websites, brand-domain pairs, and hijacked brands.
Customers of financial services companies were the most targeted.
The full report can be found here.
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