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FYI... Twitter hacked - 250K pwd's reset - http://blog.twitter.com/2013/02/keeping-our-users-secure.html Feb 01, 2013 - "... Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems... This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led...

FYI... Virut botnet takedown ... - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/polish-takedown-targets-virut-botnet/ Jan 18, 2013 - "Security experts in Poland on Thursday quietly seized domains used to control the Virut botnet, a huge army of hacked PCs that is custom-built to be rented out to...

- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-16/cisco-said-to-hire-barclays-to-sell-linksys-division.html 2012-12-17 - "Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of equipment for computer networks, has hired Barclays Plc to find a buyer for Linksys, which makes routers for home wireless access... Cisco...

FYI... FTC halts massive Tech Support Scams - http://ftc.gov/opa/2012/10/pecon.shtm 10/03/2012 - "The Federal Trade Commission has launched a major international crackdown on tech support scams in which telemarketers masquerade as major computer companies, con consumers into believing that...

FYI... Fake MS email phish delivers Zeus via Java vuln ... - https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=14020 Last Updated: 2012-09-01 - "Thanks to Susan Bradley for reporting this to ISC. We're receiving multiple reports of a phishing campaign using the template from a legitimate Microsoft email...

FYI... Syria internet cut ... - https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13753 Last Updated: 2012-07-20 14:44:14 UTC ...(Version: 2) "... report claims that 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19)... Thanks to NANOG*...

FYI... Fake Windows Critical Patch e-mail messages... - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewThreatOutbreakAlert.x?alertId=26274 June 28, 2012 - "... detected significant activity related to spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a critical Windows patch for the recipient. The text in...

FYI... Online bank fraud automation increases Bank malware-server-hosted scripts automate the process - https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9228527/Cybercriminals_increasingly_use_online_banking_fraud_automation_techniques June 26, 2012 - "Cybercriminals attempted to steal at least...

Firefox v13 released FYI... Firefox v13 released From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates -or- Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html June 5, 2012 What's new... - https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/13.0/releasenotes/ Release Notes/Bug fixes ...

FYI... Microsoft Security Advisory (2718704) Unauthorized Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2718704 June 03, 2012 - "Microsoft is aware of active attacks using unauthorized digital certificates derived from a Microsoft Certificate...

FYI... Thunderbird v12.0 released - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/12.0/releasenotes April 24, 2012 ... See Known Issues Security Advisories - https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html#thunderbird12 Fixed in Thunderbird 12 MFSA 2012-33 Potential site...

FYI... Global Payments breach - 1.5M exposed ... - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/04/global-payments-1-5mm-cards-exported/ April 2, 2012 - "Global Payments, the credit and debit card processor that disclosed a breach of its systems late Friday, said in a statement Sunday that the incident...

Rogue Chrome browser extensions ... FYI... Rogue Chrome browser extensions ... - https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225536/Facebook_scammers_host_Trojan_horse_extensions_on_Chrome_Web_Store March 26, 2012 - "Cybercriminals are uploading malicious Chrome browser extensions to the official...

Chrome v17.0.963.83 released FYI... Chrome v17.0.963.83 released - https://secunia.com/advisories/48512/ Release Date: 2012-03-22 Criticality level: Highly critical Impact: Security Bypass, System access Where: From remote CVE Reference(s): CVE-2011-3045, CVE-2011-3050, CVE-2011-3051...

Adobe Black Tuesday - Jan 2012 FYI... Adobe Black Tuesday - https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12364 Last Updated: 2012-01-10 19:38:39 UTC - "Adobe has released 1 bulletin today (Reader & Acrobat: Update to 10.1.2 or 9.5) ... -...

FYI... Etrade DDoS attack ... - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/05/etrade_in_ddos_attack/ January 5, 2012 - "... online broker ETrade, has been the target of a sustained malicious offshore generated cyber attack. The denial-of-service attack resulted in thousands of emails flooding the...

FYI... updated 5 Dec 2012: Malware samples on the Web and on malicious sites have reached levels near 95 million*, with over 100,000 new malicious programs every day. * http://www.av-test.org/en/statistics/malware/ You can use any of several methods to block some of these "Bad actors", 'not...

Opera v11.60 released FYI... Opera v11.60 released - https://secunia.com/advisories/47077/ Last Update: 2011-12-09 Criticality level: Moderately critical Impact: Hijacking, Unknown, Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information Where: From remote... For more information...

FYI... Urgent Block: lilupophilupop-dot-com (SQL Injection) - http://www.malwaredomains.com/wordpress/?p=2213 December 2nd, 2011 - "(The ISC*) is reporting that there’s a SQLi campaign going on right now with the malicious domain lilupophilupop .com being injected into sites running MSSQL. We...

Bulletproof cybercrime hosting & the Cloud FYI... Bulletproof cybercrime hosting & the Cloud - http://hostexploit.com/blog/14-reports/3535-bulletproof-cybercrime-hosting-a-the-cloud.html 20 October 2011 - "... In Q3 2011, there were several changes in the top positions in the Top Bad Hosts...