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Canadian rock/metal band Three Days Grace was the most dangerous 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards nominee to search for in cyberspace, according to McAfee. Fans searching for “Three Days Grace” or Three Days Grace-related down- loads, wallpaper, screen savers, photos and videos were most hit by spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware.
In a survey of 66 board members and senior executives at Fortune 100 compa- nies, none of the respondents said that im- proving computer and data security is a top board priority, even though 56 per cent said improving risk management is, ac- cording to a report released by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab.
An Australian government report into cy- bercrime has recommended that Internet service providers force customers to use anti-virus and firewall software or risk being disconnected. “We need to apply the same energy and commitment given to national security and the protection of critical infrastructure to the cybercrime threats that impact on society more gen- erally,” wrote Belinda Neal in her intro- duction to the 262-page report, entitled “Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tack- ling the Problem of Cyber Crime.”
Red Condor recently issued a warning of a new e-mail malware threat that spoofs YouTube and uses a redirect on a compro- mised web site to a common Canadian phar- macy web site to distribute malicious PDFs.
Organizations around the world lose an es- timated five per cent of their annual
revenues to fraud, according to a recent survey of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE). “Fraud knows no boundaries, and anti-fraud professionals worldwide face more chal- lenges than ever in detecting and combating it,” notes James Ratley, CFE president.
Spam related to the FIFA 2010 World Cup soared by 27 per cent in the months prior to the tournament’s opening game held on June 11 between Mexico and host nation South Africa. According to Symantec, FIFA- related scams were first seen in 2005 when South Africa was awarded the event.
Sixty-eight per cent of service providers say outbound spam costs them up to $100,000 per year, according to a new re- search study by industry analyst firm Os- terman Research and Commtouch. “The results of our research pinpoint a growing challenge in the industry that service providers need to protect against spam- mers who aim to abuse their networks,” says Michael Osterman, president and founder of Osterman Research. “Outbound spam is a rising concern, and it is essential that service providers deal with the issue in order to protect their businesses.”
A recent study entitled “Security of Cloud Computing Users,” reveals that more than half of U.S. organizations are adopting cloud services, but only 47 per cent of respon- dents believe that cloud services are evalu- ated for security prior to deployment. Conducted by CA and the Ponemon Insti- tute, the study also reveals that more than 50 per cent of respondents in the U.S. say their organization is unaware of all the cloud services deployed in their enterprise today.
Hitachi Data Systems has introduced the Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering, which enables enterprise cus- tomers to move legacy or lower value file data into a cloud storage environment and pay only for what they consume, when they consume it.
RSA has released a new security brief detailing how advanced security technologies can be combined with emerging outsourced services to relieve merchants of the growing burden of storing electronic payment card information. In the brief, “Secure Payment Services: Card Data Security Transformed,” experts from companies like RSA, First Data Corporation and Visa urge merchants to rethink how they manage card data, asserting that they can gain better business insight and value without having to keep card numbers at all.
Fortinet’s May 2010 Threat Landscape re- port shows a new PDF exploit (CVE-2010- 1240) is being circulated in high volume through an ongoing spam campaign. The monthly report also shows botnet activity remained strong, with Gumblar and Sasfis present in both the Top 10 attack and Top 10 malware lists.
Researchers at Sophos have discovered that Apple secretly updated the anti-mal- ware protection built into Mac OS X when it released a new version this past June. Mac OS X 10.6.4 has been updated to provide limited protection against OSX/Pinhead-B (called HellRTS by Apple), a backdoor Trojan that can allow remote hackers to gain control over Mac com- puters for the purposes of identity theft, spying and the distribution of spam.
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