http://zerodaythreat.com Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:17:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity has just been awarded the  prestigious Excellence in Financial Journalism Award for general audience books from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accounts.  Thanks goes out to all ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=373 Conficker timeline 2008 - 2009 2008 Aug. 20: The Gimmiv Trojan, which exploited the vulnerability Conficker capitalises on, is first spotted running in a virtual machine on a server in South Korea. Experts speculate this was a a test run prior to it being released in the wild. (Source: BBC) Sept. Chinese malware brokers ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=368   The sudden resignation  of Rod A. Beckstrom, the Department of Homeland Security’s senior  official tasked with unifying the federal government’s cybersecurity intiatives, bodes ill for a new age of transparency and collaborative problem-solving in government. Beckstrom was unable to maneuver around, much less partner with, the powerful National Security Agency (NSA). In ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=365 Facebook appears to be taking the brunt of the onslaught of viral messages infesting the Internet. These viral messages are metastizing far and wide, carried  by huge and growing botnet-driven worms,  like Koobface andWaledec, that spread through email and, increasingly,  via social network communication services. The bad messages try to steer you to tainted web ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=362 Visa and MasterCard are being circumspect about a new round of warnings they’ve issued regarding stolen credit and debit card numbers circulating in the criminal world — data  possibly stolen from another breach of a payment card processor. This follows major data thefts fromHeartland Payment Sytems and RBS WorldPay,  for which precious ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=355 In moves that should help stimulate the economy, the Obama Administration this week took two big steps toward slowing, and perhaps ultimately reversing, therapid growth of cybercrime. On Wednesday, Admiral Dennis Blair,  Director of National Intelligence, told Congress that he will assume a greater role in cybersecurity. Then on Thursday, the President released ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=351   Banking trojans are inundating the Internet. These malicious programs lay in wait on your hard drive for an opportune moment to crack your online banking account — usually just as you log on. You can get them by clicking on a viral link to a greeting card or video that arrives ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=346 All eyes in the Washington D.C. security and intelligence communities are riveted on Melissa Hathaway. Tech company executives, military leaders, lawmakers and senior White House officials who track cybersecurity matters are anxious to find out what the bright, young management consultant will advise President Obama to do about making the Internet safer. …more ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=344 What would you do if you controlled a botnet 1 million to 12 million strong? That's the scale of the unnerving Downadup/Conficker worm, which continues to spread, mostly via unpatched Windows PCs inside corporate networks. For the historical backdrop -- and informed speculation on the worm's next moves -- click ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=342 A bold band of security and privacy experts is calling on President Obama to create a federal  clearinghouse of information about data breaches -- and make that intelligence accessible to companies, consumers and law enforcement. The proposal comes in a report titled, The Perfect Storm: Why the New Administration Cannot Ignore ... http://zerodaythreat.com/?p=325