| Security Incidents : MX Logic Forecasted Email and Web Security Threats in September |
| Posted by Max on 2009/8/31 11:31:07 (552 reads) |

MX Logic, the world's largest independent provider of managed email and Web security solutions, today released the September MX Logic Threat Forecast &Report. The monthly report provides information on recent and potential email and Web threats, as well as expert analysis of real time spam and virus events. This month's analysis includes the following highlights. |
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| Security Incidents : iPhone and BlackBerry Home Security System Control Application |
| Posted by Max on 2009/8/18 13:16:55 (666 reads) |

Platinum Protection is now offering a new application for BlackBerry and iPhone devices - making it possible for homeowners to remotely arm and disarm their security system, as well as allowing customers to monitor their homes through live video streamed directly to their phone |
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| Security Incidents : Red Condor's Spam Trip Wire Detects a New Computer Virus |
| Posted by Max on 2009/6/24 17:08:30 (534 reads) |

Red Condor's Spam Trip Wire feature instantly detected and blocked a new email virus campaign designed to scare email users with bogus legal action for activities including illegal music downloads. The virus campaign detected at 8:29 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 22, 2009, calls attention to users' supposed recent activity at sites commonly used to share and download copyrighted movies, music and software. |
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| Security Incidents : Finjan's Research Unveils Botnet Trading Platform for Hacked PCs |
| Posted by Max on 2009/6/22 4:32:25 (549 reads) |

Finjan Inc. announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) managed to research a trading network and botnet, where compromised PCs are bought and sold for profit. In the second issue of its "Cybercrime Intelligence Report" of 2009, Finjan shows the operations of the Golden Cash network consisting of an entire trading platform of malware-infested PCs. |
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| Security Incidents : Less Than 50% of Attacks Are Detected; United States and China Still Top the Distribution of Malware on the Internet. |
| Posted by Max on 2009/2/4 14:54:19 (768 reads) |

According to Cyveillance's Latest Cyber Intelligence Report: Detection Rates for Malware are Getting Worse and Anti-Phishing Filters Detect Less than 50% of Attacks. Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that a recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors and Web browser anti-phishing filters revealed that more than half of active malware and phishing threats on the Internet go undetected, with an average detection rate of 37 percent for malware and 42 percent for phishing. This data was captured as part of Cyveillance's "2H 2008 Cyber Intelligence Report," which was issued today. |
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| Security Incidents : Biggest Hotel Chains Fall Victim To Online Booking Fraud |
| Posted by Max on 2009/1/27 15:13:01 (1166 reads) |

A well-organized online fraud is scamming over 71,000 travelers each month as they book rooms online at some of America's best known hotel chains, including Hyatt, Clarion, TraveLodge, Comfort Inn, Red Roof, EconoLodge, Super 8, Ramada, Days Inn, and Wyndham, according to an exclusive report by FraudTip.com.
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| Security Incidents : Back To The Basics : Human Assisted Anti-Spam Filtering |
| Posted by Max on 2009/1/25 12:28:21 (638 reads) |

Email spam has been growing exponentially for several years to a total of several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused and annoyed millions of email users worldwide. Spam intrudes, invades and interrupts time whenever a person checks for email messages, wasting precious time in the process.
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| Security Incidents : RBS WorldPay Hacked , 1.5 mil. Cardholders At Risk |
| Posted by Max on 2008/12/28 14:24:25 (1544 reads) |

RBS WorldPay (formerly RBS Lynk), the U.S. payment processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced that its computer system had been improperly accessed by an unauthorized party.RBS WorldPay has urgently taken a number of important steps to mitigate risk in response to this situation. |
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| Security Incidents : Continental Flight 1404 Headlines Used by Hackers to Trick those Concerned About the Denver Air-crash |
| Posted by Max on 2008/12/28 14:19:15 (823 reads) |

Webroot, a leading provider of security solutions for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, has detected a new string of rogue antivirus applications that use URLs related to Continental Flight 1404 and other current news to manipulate consumers into purchasing phony Internet security protection. The URLs link to a download site which triggers a series of fake infection and firewall pop-up messages, bearing the generic name "Spyware Guard 2008." |
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