The SC Magazine Newswire

September 4, 2008 — Click here to view this newsletter online

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Digital Download - Deflecting data theft, sponsored by netForensics

Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST

A huge issue for all organizations today is the threat of data theft or exposure. In the January issue, the SC Magazine Data Breach Survey revealed just some of the issues surrounding the growing problem of data exposure. We talk to experts about this problem and find out what areas of their information security programs the C-level suite can improve upon to help deflect data thieves.

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Howard A. Schmidt, president and CEO, R & H Security Consulting LLC
Rich Baich, principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

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Latest News

Mortgage spam spikes due to Federal Reserve rate cut

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 30, 2008

Spammers have taken advantage of the U.S. mortgage crisis to intensify the amount of financial junk mail sent to end-users.

Yahoo names VeriSign's Balogh CTO

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 30, 2008

In a move overshadowed by sizable layoffs announced this week, Yahoo has named VeriSign's Aristotle Balogh its new chief technology officer (CTO).

Storm makes house calls: Messages lead to bogus med sites

Jack Rogers January 30, 2008

The notorious Storm worm botnet, which has mounted phishing attacks on major banks and spawned several waves of holiday-themed messages in recent weeks, is generating spam that directs recipients to bogus medical sites, Websense has warned.

Hacker arrested in Greece for stealing, selling weapons data

Jim Carr January 30, 2008

Authorities have arrested a 58-year-old man in Greece they said hacked into computer systems of France's Dassault Group for more than five years, stole sensitive weapons technology data, and sold it to a variety of countries.

T. Rowe Price contractor loses hard drives with data

Dan Kaplan January 29, 2008

Global investment management firm T. Rowe Price has admitted to thieves stealing two computers containing the sensitive information of thousands of 401(k) participants from the St. Louis office of a third-party contractor.

Barracuda: Trend Micro complaint aims to stifle competition

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 29, 2008

Officials from Barracuda Networks are suggesting that Trend Micro's patent complaint, which demands removal of virus-detection technologies from Barracuda and Panda firewalls, really aims to give Trend Micro a monopoly on gateway AV scanning.

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Do-it-yourself phishing kit targets email, social networks

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 29, 2008

A do-it-yourself phishing kit is making it easy for amateur scammers to target users of popular social networking sites Orkut, MySpace and Facebook and webmail platforms like Yahoo and Hotmail, researchers said.

Viruses now posing on digital picture frames

Jack Rogers January 29, 2008

At least two brands of digital picture frames, a popular gift during the recent holiday season, have been contaminated by malware and one of the models - Insignia's 10.4-inch frame - has been recalled by the manufacturer and pulled from the shelves of Best Buy.

Western Union spam downloads keylogger

Jim Carr January 29, 2008

Spam emails, purporting to deliver a money-transfer notification from Western Union but containing an attachment with an executable trojan, have been spotted in the wild by researchers at Sunbelt Software.

ChoicePoint settles lawsuit over 2005 breach

Dan Kaplan January 28, 2008

ChoicePoint will pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed after the data aggregator and credentialing service admitted to a major data breach in 2005.

PayPal to acquire Fraud Sciences for $169 million

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 28, 2008

PayPal has agreed to acquire Fraud Sciences, a vendor of online transaction-verification tools.

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