Phishing Definition
Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. Typically, the messages appear to come from well-known and trustworthy Web sites. Web sites that are frequently spoofed by phishers include PayPal, eBay, MSN, Forex, BestBuy, ...
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Community Health Systems has 206 hospitals across the US
A major US hospital group said it was the victim of a cyber-attack resulting in the theft of 4.5 million people’s personal data.
The attack, which Community Health Systems believed originated in China, happened in April and June this year.
The data included patient names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers and social security numbers.
The firm, which runs 206 hospitals in 29 states, is now in the process of notifying affected patients.
One security expert warned that ...
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Microsoft has released an updated version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 5.0 (EMET), marking its latest bid to protect its corporate customers from hackers.
EMET 5.0 is available from Microsoft now and adds a wealth of improved features. Key updates include an upgraded Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) tool designed “to limit the attack surface of applications and reduce attacks”, and Export Address Table Filtering Plus (EAF+) service, that will “improve and extend current EAF ...
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USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections.
CSE Labs, noted that hackers could load malicious software onto tiny, low-cost computer chips that control functions of USB devices but which have no built-in shields against tampering with their code.
The finding shows that bugs in software used to ...
Continue Reading →Swisscom, the Swiss telco that’s majority owned by its government, will set up a “Swiss cloud” hosted entirely in the land of cuckoo clocks and fine chocolate – and try to make the service impervious to malware and uninvited spooks.
Companies providing secure communications, such as Silent Circle, already use Swiss data centers because the country has very tight data privacy laws. And surveillance ...
Continue Reading →Two versions of the malware, called Ploutus, have been discovered, both of which are engineered to empty a ...
IDG News Service – Vulnerabilities in the management interfaces of some wireless router and network-attached storage products from Netgear expose the devices to remote attacks that could result in their complete compromise, researchers warn.
The latest hardware revision of Netgear’s N600 Wireless Dual-Band Gigabit Router, known as WNDR3700v4, has several vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass authentication on the router’s Web-based interface, according to Zachary Cutlip, a ...
Continue Reading →IDG News Service – The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service, known as Serpro, will build a secure email system for Brazil’s federal government following media reports that foreign intelligence agencies intercepted electronic communications in the country.
Via several Twitter posts on Sunday, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said that creating a secure email system for the federal government is the first step to increase the privacy and ...
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Hostile computer activity from spies, saboteurs, competitors and criminals has spawned a growing industry ...
Continue Reading →The UK government is planning to recruit hundreds of computer specialists to defend core infrastructure against cyberthreats, Conservative Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said Sunday.
Speaking at the annual Conservative party conference, Hammond said the United Kingdom was dedicating additional resources and funds to building a strong cyber intelligence and surveillance network, according to ...
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