The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday asked Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. to cooperate with inquiries into their privacy practices. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said he wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain Faebook’s privacy practices amid recent changes and consumer and media uproar. Conyers also said that he wants Google [...]
IronKey’s Chief Technology Officer, Gil Spencer, was at the AUSCERT security conference in Australia this week. He was the lucky recipient of a promotional USB flash drive from IBM at the conference. Today IBM sent out an apology. It seems that the USB flash drives that they handed out were infected with autorun malware. Nice [...]
According to McAfee’s Q1 Threat Report, malware that is designed to spread onto USB removable storage devices was the most prevalent malware threat in Q1 2010. The number 1 most detected malware variant by McAfee researchers was “Generic! Atr”, followed by a number of password-stealing Trojans and the Autorun Conficker worm. This should come as [...]
I just tried the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org)’s new browser fingerprinting website, Panopticlick.eff.org. It is a webpage that collects data from your web browser, and creates a new type of device fingerprint. It compares it to a database of all other devices that have visited the web page, and then tells you how unique your [...]
A new report was released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, rat the Sao Paulo Brazil “Counter Electronic-Crime Operations Summit”. The report is titled “Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use 2H2009″. It is focused on an analysis of domain name registrar abuse, and how fraudulently registered domain names are used to operate phishing scams [...]
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning a major prosecution to bust up the operations that cyber criminals use to turn funds stolen online into readily available cash, a top bureau official said Tuesday. The FBI is targeting the end of the criminal supply chain—the “money mules” who receive transfers of stolen funds in [...]
ICT Review has published Dave Tripier’s article: “How Cybercriminals Are Stealing Corporate Funds, and Putting Pressure on the Global Banking System”. “The last eighteen months have delivered some of the most testing challenges to the global banking system. Whilst financial institution and businesses alike both struggle to emerge from a brutal recession, they’re now having [...]
Financial Services Technology magazine has published my new article, “The 21st Century Trojan War”. In it I talk about the new corporate banking trojan threats, and how the cyber-underground is advancing their attacks against the financial services infrastructure by infiltrating the computers of finance professionals inside corporations and government agencies. “In 2009, organized cyber crime [...]
A 12 year old boy found an unencrypted USB thumb drive memory stick in the parking lot of ASDA supermarket in Stenhousemuir, Scotland. To the surprise of the young lad and his parents, the memory stick contained patient records of mental patients at nearby Bellsdyke Hospital in Falkirk, Scotland. The UK National Health Service issued [...]
Yury Mashevsky of anti-virus company Kaspersky Labs has published a good article that outlines the state of the crimeware threat environment that we face in 2010. Mashevsky illustrates the exploding number of financial crimeware/malware samples that Kaspersky has received on a quarterly basis since the financial crimeware industry got started in 2005. This graph shows [...]
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