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Sans Institute reveals top 10 cyber threats for 2008
Hackers are increasingly using corporate websites to distribute malware and steal company information, security researchers surveyed by the Sans Institute have warned.
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Soon, cyber technology to detect online fraudsters
Shopping or carrying out other transactions online may soon be a safer affair, for Iowa State University researchers are developing a cyber technology to track fraudsters.
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CIA Tells Of Cyber Blackout Attack
The agency has revealed that an unnamed group launched a cyber attack that caused a multiple city blackout in an unnamed country.
It’s a story that’s shrouded in mystery and an indication of the sophisticated level of cyber terrorism out there. ZDNet has reported that a CIA analyst reported to the San Institute last week that it had evidence of cyber attacks against the infrastructure of several countries.
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F-Secure predicts future hotbeds of cyber crime
Mexico, India and Africa will soon take over Russia, China and South America as the world's hotbeds of internet crime, predicts internet security firm F-Secure.
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FERC approves new reliability standards for cyber security
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved eight new mandatory critical infrastructure protection (CIP) reliability standards designed to protect the nation's bulk power system against potential disruptions from cyber security breaches.
The reliability standards were developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which FERC has designated as the electric reliability organization (ERO).
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Cyber-espionage, phishing among top threats to information security
Cyber-espionage and phishing scams will cause bigger headaches for federal information security managers this year, one expert group predicts. Researchers from the SANS Institute, a computer security research center, compiled a list of the 10 biggest cyber-security threats in 2008.
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200 spammers send 90 bn messages !
Little wonder why Microsoft founder Bill Gates receives 4 million e-mails per year, most of them spam! Spam has become the preferred distribution method for malware among cyber criminals as more than 90% of the e-mail on the Internet today is spam, and about 80% of these unsolicited mails contain links to malicious sites, according to a new report.
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Hackers Have Attacked Foreign Utilities, CIA Analyst Says
In a rare public warning to the power and utility industry, a CIA analyst this week said cyber attackers have hacked into the computer systems of utility companies outside the United States and made demands, in at least one case causing a power outage that affected multiple cities.
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Canada: Cyber attack hits bank websites
Sophisticated virus can clean out accounts without owners suspecting
"Dubbed the 'Silentbanker,' the virus is a Trojan horse computer users may unknowingly download by simply browsing the Internet. The first sign it's at work may be a bank notification warning their client has been a victim of fraud."
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U.S. in middle of cyber war with China, Russia?
The Cold War may be over, but the global battle over information security is heating up, as U.S. intelligence experts struggle to fend off relentless cyber attacks emanating from China and Russia on critical databases.
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Cyber attacks on the rise
Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly insidious and more sophisticated. Since the rapid growth of the Internet in the 1990s, cyber attacks have been increasing at an alarming rate, while expert predictions last year indicated an increase in targeted, financially motivated cyber attacks.
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