Angela Moscaritolo
Angela Moscaritolo writes daily IT security news stories for SC Magazine's website and print edition. Prior to coming on board as a reporter at SC Magazine in September 2008, Angela worked at newspapers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New Jersey. She worked at The Northern Valley Suburbanite in New Jersey, The Dominion Post in West Virginia, and the Uniontown-Herald Standard in Pennsylvania. Reporting for newspapers, she primarily covered city government, school boards, and local breaking news. She is a West Virginia University Perely Isaac Reed School of Journalism graduate.
Recent Articles
July 03, 2009
William E. Kovacic has served on the Federal Trade Commission since January 2006, and served as chairman from March 2008 until March 2009. Kovacic was the agency's General Counsel from 2001 through 2004. Before he became a commissioner, Kovacic was the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law. Since 1992, Kovacic has been an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to a number of foreign governments.
July 02, 2009
Malware writers behind the Waledac botnet have set preparations in motion for a spam campaign with an Independence Day theme, security vendor ESET warned Thursday in a blog post. At least 18 domain names, expected to be used in the attacks, have been registered. They relate to fireworks or Independence Day. The spam is expected to include links to supposed videos of Fourth of July fireworks shows. — AM
July 02, 2009
During the second quarter of 2009, the amount of spam was up 53 percent from the first quarter, according to Google.
July 01, 2009
Cybercriminals might be looking for a new home after their malicious server in the Cayman Islands was shut down Tuesday.
June 30, 2009
A hacker who went by the alias "Iceman" pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Pittsburgh to charges of wire fraud and now faces up to 60 years in prison.
June 29, 2009
A Cincinnati man has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission for his involvement in a scheme that allegedly tricked more than one million individuals into buying rogue anti-virus products.
June 26, 2009
President Obama's cybersecurity speech was the most notable information security event from the second quarter of 2009, security vendor F-secure said in its quarterly threat summary. The most notable threats from March to June included the Conficker worm, Twitter attacks, and PDF exploits. Conficker, in particular, "proved to be the most significant malware outbreak in recent years," F-Secure said. — AM
June 26, 2009
Always quick to capitalize on major headlines, spammers have begun sending out messages related to the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, security researchers said.
June 25, 2009
CVS Caremark must implement an information security program and obtain assessments of its effectiveness every other year for 20 years to settle federal charges.
June 24, 2009
PC users in the U.S. are running a total of 2,720,800,000 vulnerable programs, according to security vendor Secunia. That statistic comes from information gathered through Secunia's vulnerability scanning tool. Users who scanned their computer using Secunia's tool for the first time had an average of 12 unpatched programs. Secunia extrapolated from the 227 million internet users in the U.S. to arrive at the total number of vulnerabilities. — AM