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It Security need to be address by today organizations. This should start from the top down but in most cases IT Security start from the bottom and in most cases never reach the top. The blog on IT Security are to help everyone better understand how knowledge of the subject. The bad guys are working hard to gain access to your network and/or computer, we need to work at keeping them out.
Phishers represent over 57% of all web-based threats in December....
Network Box stats show over half of all web-based threats in December were phishing attacks
According to information posted on their website:
The number of phishing attacks rose dramatically in the run up to Christmas, according to managed security firm, Network Box. Analysis of internet threats in December 2009 show that just over 57 per cent of all threats were phishing attacks, compared to 28.3 per cent... Read Full Story
Adobe
2009 is drawing to a close, and 2010 is almost upon us. The Chinese calendar says 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, but a report released from McAfee claims it could be the year of Adobe malware.
Traditionally, the most common target for malware is Microsoft. Microsoft holds a dominant stake of the operating system, office productivity, and Web browser markets, so it’s only logical that malware developers would want to fish in the pool with the most targets.
However, Mac OS X is... Read Full Story
Mozilla on Tuesday issued an updated version of its Firefox web browser to fix several vulnerabilities. Firefox 3.5.6 closes a number of “critical” flaws, which could allow an attacker to crash a victim's browser or run arbitrary code on an affected computer. This is the first time Firefox has been updated for security since late October. Of the seven security bulletins released by Mozilla as part of the update, one listed as critical addresses several stability bugs in the browser engine... Read Full Story
Veritas Storage Foundations 5.1 for Windows (STS)
Exam Number/Code : ST0-058
Exam Name : Veritas Storage Foundations 5.1 for Windows (STS)
Questions and Answers : 96 Q&As
Symantec Exam ST0-058 is among those popular It Certifications which are the dream of all ambitious IT professionals. It requires a thorough preparation on the part of the candidates so that they may obtain maximum score in Symantec Exam ST0-058 and make their profiles compatible to market requirements... Read Full Story
A new phishing campaign is designed to steal FTP credentials from website owners so the fraudsters can set up fake bank websites, a security firm warned Monday.The messages appear to come from web hosting providers, such as Yahoo, according to researchers at Trusteer. The emails target owners of sites that use cPanel, which offers these hosting providers backend automation software to build assets, such as email accounts and databases. cPanel also oversees FTP account control.The phishers... Read Full Story
CAN ADOBE BEAT BACK THE HACKERS?
For years, Adobe Systems has occupied a quiet corner of the personal-computer industry. Photographers and designers use its software to clean up photos and set up Web sites. Workers everywhere trade electronic documents formatted with Adobe's programs, often without knowing the company behind the software.
Now Adobe is attracting the unwanted attention of hackers--and security experts are concerned the company isn't doing enough to repel assaults. So... Read Full Story
Hackers
A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.
Albert Gonzalez, of Miami, pleaded guilty in US District Court in Boston to two counts of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to payment card networks, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Gonzalez and two unidentified Russian co-conspirators were accused of stealing more than... Read Full Story
James Heary, a "Cisco Security Expert" writes for Network World on his Top 5 Breaches of 2009.
About Cisco Security Expert
Jamey Heary, CCIE No. 7680, is the author of the Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access Cisco Subnet blog community. Contact him . book by Cisco Press. Jamey is a seasoned security technologist with over 15 years in the IT field with 10 years focused on IT security. His areas of expertise include network and host security design and... Read Full Story
Hackers
Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week.
The attackers are taking advantage of a pair of bugs in the OpenX advertising software to login to advertising servers and then place malicious code on ads being served on the sites. On Monday, cartoon syndicator King Features said that it had been hacked last week, because of the OpenX bugs. The company’s Comics... Read Full Story
ActiveX vulnerabilities have posed a security challenge for some time, and they're likely to be a challenge for quite some time to come. Look at examples such as Microsoft's patches this summer, which included a fix for Internet Explorer (MS-09034) and another (MS-09035) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. These updates were released to protect users from a security hole in technology employed by developers to create powerful web-based application elements. More specifically, the flaws resided... Read Full Story
