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MCAFEE AVERT LABS BLOG
Zeus Crimeware Toolkit
An inside look at Zeus toolkit that comes with a control panel typically used to track the botnet infections and enables the attacker to remotely control and send commands to bots

THE REGISTER
Man Gets 6 Years For Laundering $2.5m From Phony Credit Cards
A California man worked with money mules who used stolen credit card data to withdraw money from ATMs

H-ONLINE
Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights - Update
A vulnerability in the 32-bit compatibility mode of the current Linux kernel and previous versions for 64-bit systems can be exploited to escalate privileges

CSO ONLINE
Adobe Will Patch Flash Bug Today
Adobe accelerated the delivery of a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash

NETWORK WORLD
Inside Intel's Security Organization
The "Here You Have" e-mail worm hit Intel--4,400 of its employees clicked on the malware, and 400 machines were infected

AVIRA BLOG
The Anti-Botnet Initiative
Eco and The German Federal Bureau for Information Security are also offering telephone hotline for users who might have been infected by bots, and major German ISPs are also participating

FIERCE GOVERNMENT IT
A Merging Of Civilian And National Security System Cybersecurity Underway
An anticipated policy change requiring national security systems to follow selected National Institute of Standards and Technology cybersecurity guidance is blurring the lines between civilian and national security systems, according to the Government Accountability Office

EWEEK
Adobe Advises Users Be Wary Of Unofficial Security Patches
Adobe Systems says unofficial patches can cause unexpected damage and advises caution before applying an unofficial patch provided by a security company for a zero-day being exploited in the wild

COMPUTERWORLD
Mozilla Halts Firefox Security Updates
Mozilla is investigating a bug in a new version of Firefox that caused computers to crash

THE REGISTER
Code For Open-Source Facebook Littered With Landmines
Four New York University students who built Diaspora, a privacy-preserving alternative to Facebook, were under fire as hackers began finding security flaws in the pre-alpha release source code

US CERT
Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.8
Apple fixed two vulnerabilities affecting earlier versions of QuickTime for Windows, including an insecure loading issue with dynamic link libraries (DLLs)

THREAT POST
Security A Concern As HTML5 Gains Traction
HTML5, the next-generation HTML, could usher in a new generation of powerful Web attacks

YAHOO!
Microsoft Overlooks Four Stuxnet Zero-Day Bugs In Patch Tuesday
Vulnerabilities could pose problems for Windows users, researchers warn

McAFEE LABS
New Phishing Scam Targets Electronic Federal Tax Payment System Users
Fraudulent email message claims to be a rejected tax payment

SUNBELT BLOG
Google Image Searches For "Marvin Sapp" Have Been Poisoned
Fake antivirus peddlers target searches of gospel singer/songwriter following his wife's death

TECHWORLD
Google Engineer Fired For Privacy Violations
Ex-employee reportedly accessed accounts belonging to teenagers

NETWORK WORLD
Ultimate Privacy: How To Disappear, Erase Digital Footprints, And Vanish Without A Trace
Privacy expert Frank Ahearn can help you legally poof and fall off the grid

V3.CO.UK
UK Firms Gloomy On Security Spending
Only one-third predict an increase in spending in the coming year

MSNBC
Personal Information Stolen From Rice University
Stolen device contained personal data on thousands of faculty and staff, report says

THE RAW STORY
U.S. Urges NATO To Build "Cyber Shield"
Cybersecurity should be a key plank in alliance's defense platform, U.S. officials say

ZDNET
Criminals Use Hacked Email To Steal House
Sophisticated scam results in the unauthorized sale by criminals of an Australian man's half-million dollar home after his email account credentials are stolen

FOX
NBA Star Shaquille O'Neal Sued For Computer Hacking, Framing Former Employee
Shaquille O'Neal faces allegations of hacking and destroying email evidence in an attempt to frame a former employee

ZSCALER BLOG
Attackers Re-Create An Entire Facebook Site For Phishing
Russian phishing site has cloned all Facebook pages and in 64 different languages

ARS TECHNICA
Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Ruling
A federal appeals court Monday reversed its decision that had dramatically narrowed the government's search-and-seizure powers in computers

SYMANTEC BLOG
Stuxnet Introduces the First Known Rootkit for Industrial Control Systems
Researchers say Stuxnet isn't just a rootkit that hides itself on Windows, but is also the first publicly known rootkit able to hide injected code located on a PLC

YAHOO NEWS
Trojan Monitors Your Porn Surfing Habits, Threatens to Blackmail You
The Kenzero Trojan out of Japan posts your browser history, favorites, illegally downloaded porn, and clipboard content to a public website, and then its creators demand payment of $18 to remove the details

GAWKER
Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats (Updated)
A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses

COMPUTERWORLD
Researchers Clash Over Possible Return Of Google Attackers
Secureworks shoots down Symantec researcher's suggestion that the cybercriminals who hacked into Google and other firms are back in a new attack

THREATPOST
'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions Of ASP.NET Apps
Weakness in cookie-handling process could allow attackers to hijack online banking sessions

IT WORLD
Siemens: Stuxnet Worm Hit Industrial Systems
Siemens confirms 14 plants have been infected; some systems might have been reprogrammed

MICROSOFT
Microsoft Issues Nine Patches On Patch Tuesday
Four patches are considered critical, software giant says

SOPHOS
No Certificate For You! VeriSign Revokes Cert From Malware Fiends
Rejection of signing certificate could be problematic for users, expert says

SYMANTEC
Aurora Attackers Back?
Activity suggests the distributors of Trojan.Hydraq could be up to their old tricks

ADOBE
Security Advisory For Adobe Reader And Acrobat
Patch for zero-day vulnerability is rolled out for Adobe Flash Player as well

TRENDLABS MALWARE BLOG
Mehika Twitter Botnet Targets Twitter Users
Twitter account used to send out commands to botnet zombies, researchers say

TECHWORLD
Hacker Claims 'Here You Have' Worm Was Propaganda Tool
"Iraq Resistance" says he didn't expect worm to spread as widely as it did

GARY WARNER BLOGSPOT
Random Pseudo-URLs Try to Confuse Anti-Spam Solutions
URLs reported potential phish, but the links aren't real URLs

F-SECURE BLOG
Apple's iOS 4.1 Fixes 24 Vulnerabilities
Apple releases iOS version 4.1, which patches 24 security vulnerabilities -- 20 of which are related to WebKit

COMPUTERWORLD
Hotel Operator Warns Of Data Breach
Attacks on point-of-sale systems at HEI Hospitality, owner of Marriott, Sheraton, Westin, and other hotels, may have exposed card data on 3,400 customers

SYMANTEC
State of Spam And Phishing Report
92.51 percent of all messages were spam in August, up from 91.89 percent in July


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