Security

Today has been a busy day for news stateside. According to celebrity news website Thirty Mile Zone, Mel Gibson’s Russian girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, is suing her web host for cybersquatting. She claims that her host registered the domain OksanaGrigorieva.com and is using the site to spread lies about her. The …

Friday, President Obama confirmed our earlier report and announced the creation of a new cyber security coordinator post that will oversee the securing of “America’s digital infrastructure.” The person who takes this new post will report directly to the President and have his full support and consultation. “Our technological advantage …

President Barack Obama’s choice for U.S. Supreme Court justice is apparently well versed in cyberlaw. Tuesday, President Obama named Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Her experience with technology issues, particularly those related to the Internet, is most likely not a coincidence. According …

Computer security giant Symantec announced the release of its May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. Covering a wide variety of Internet threats, the report details some disturbing new trends. Most notably, spam has increased by 5.1% since April. It now accounts for 90.4% of email. Where you live depends on what …

The Washington Post reported this morning that the White House will soon announce plans to appoint a national cybersecurity adviser who will oversee strategies to protect the United States’ government-operated and private computer networks. Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a White House official said that the “cyber czar” will …

ICANN announced a plan yesterday that will create programs to enhance the security and reliability of the Internet. However, none of the planned initiatives will augment the organisation’s power. Called the ICANN Plan for Enhancing Internet Security, Stability and Resiliency, it will tackle: Improving root zone management through automation; improve …

White Hat Security has release client data indicating that over 60 percent of their clients’ websites have serious vulnerabilities, and websites have an average of seven unfixed vulnerabilities. One of the most serious security flaws fond is the infamous cross-site scripting (XSS). White Hat estimates that there is a 65 …

The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and StopBadware.org have joined forces to create the Chain of Trust Initiative aimed at putting an end to the distribution of malware on the Internet. The goal is to combat malware by working in coordination with security companies, registrars, web hosting …

The APWG, a committee dedicated to combating Internet scams and fraud, released what they call the Global Phishing Survey today. The report, which analyzed more than 30,000 phishing websites in 2008, can be downloaded here (PDF). The organization measured the prevalence of a given domain using the metric “phishing attacks …

SOCA released an annual report Wednesday that highlights some of their more memorable victories. In collaboration with the FBI, they made 60 arrests in the DarkMarket forum case, an online message forum where cyber criminals trade stolen credit cards and bank accounts. They have since recovered more than 16,000 stolen …