The SC Magazine Newswire

Sept. 20, 2007

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Get your IT security news to go. Each week, SC Magazine interviews the experts on the hottest news in IT security. This week, reporter Dan Kaplan talks with Irwin Lazar, principal analyst and program director for collaboration and convergence at Nemertes Research, about the recent Skype worm and whether malware-writers will seek to exploit companies whose employees use the instant messaging/VoIP application.

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Latest News

MediaDefender hacked, internal emails published

Jim Carr September 18, 2007

MediaDefender, an anti-piracy vendor often commissioned by movie studios and record companies, suffered a breach over the weekend when thieves stole thousands of internal emails.

Researchers reveal Windows buffer overflow flaw

Frank Washkuch Jr. September 18, 2007

Researchers last week revealed an unpatched buffer overflow bug in Windows that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected machine.

Phishing scams may target Ameritrade breach victims

September 18, 2007

A mass spear phishing attack could await victims of the recently publicized data breach at discount online broker TD Ameritrade, security experts said this week.

Ads on Facebook serve up adware

September 17, 2007

An alleged adware distributor is placing ads on the popular Facebook social networking website that download spyware onto unpatched Windows computers

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Well-oiled underground market tops latest Symantec threat report

Dan Kaplan September 17, 2007

An underground economy where professional-grade crimeware and stolen data is exchanged in forums and auction-style websites has turned into a commercialized and extremely lucrative undertaking, the latest Symantec Internet Threat Report shows.

Barracuda Networks buys NetContinuum

Frank Washkuch Jr. September 17, 2007

Barracuda Networks announced today that it has completed an acquisition of application-firewall vendor NetContinuum.

Connecticut state government bank account info on lost Ohio tape

Dan Kaplan September 17, 2007

In the data breach that seems to grow in severity by the day, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Sunday that nearly all state government bank account data was stored on a backup computer tape stolen in June from a college interns car in Ohio.

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