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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, warns users about a new, fast-moving Twitter worm which exploits Google's goo.gl service of truncated links.
The truncated URLs are lightweight and popularly used in micro-blogging systems, limiting the length of messages for users of services such as Twitter.
Cyber criminals are selling stolen credit card details for as little as $2 each and renting computer networks for spam for $15 as part of a vast online black market, according to a report released Thursday.
PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of computer-security company Panda Security, published the various prices for cyber crime-related products after conducting an undercover investigation into online crime networks.
The holiday break appears to have ended for those behind the world's largest spamming operation
The Rustock botnet, dubbed the largest source of global spam, has resumed activity after a two-week hiatus during which time spam amounts drastically fell, according to security researchers at Symantec.
The National Security Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday broke ground on a $1.2 million data center in Utah that will support national cybersecurity intelligence efforts.
The data center will assist various agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, in protecting national security networks, the NSA said in a news release.
A security breach at the Pentagon's official credit union has exposed the personal and financial records of members of the U.S. military and their families, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk for identity theft.
The Pentagon Federal Credit Union’s (PenFed) database , which includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers, was accessed by a malware-infested PC, Paul Roberts of the security firm Kaspersky Lab reported.
The Identity Theft Resource Center recorded 662 data breaches in the United States in 2010, a nearly 33 percent increase from 2009. To cybersecurity analysts, this is further proof that organizations that handle and store sensitive digital data need to do a much better job.
Paper breaches accounted for nearly 20 percent of all reported security breaches, according to the ITRC’s annual Breach List. Malware attacks that siphoned data from computers accounted for 17.1 percent of stolen data.
