Email and Network Security News

It is obvious, after 3000 years, that your average person will never learn to not accept trojans.

China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition.

Blackberry servers may not be worth the trouble, considering this latest study conducted by penetration test firm NTA Monitor.

Sensitive healthcare data is under threat and HIPAA is conducting suprise audits.

Sweden police force's email system hacked

Hundreds of classified U.S. military emails accidentally sent to a website promoting the British town of Mildenhall

Ever creative spammers have found a new method to get past some filters.

Patch, scan, patch, scan, patch patch, scan scan....

The Storm botnet is sending spams with links to malicious websites which install viruses.

This is the second widespread Blackberry outage in less than a year.

IBM Internet Security Systems says that the motive has shifted from ego to the three P's: profit, politics and prestige.

McAfee labs predicts a 54% increase in malware in 2008. This article covers the new terminology we will see for new malware this year.

Direct phishing attacks on corporate executives are on the rise. Another article which demonstrates that you need email perimeter protection.

Even using SSL does not protect you from this Google mail programming flaw.

This new worm is spreading across mobile networks via Symbian phones.

The Storm Botnet is the boldest, most formidable, agressive, and sophisticated Botnet today.

The iPhone is a great platform, but unfortunately it isn't the most secure.

In 2007, hacking and spamming became more sophisticated.

Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air.

More proof that the public SMTP (email) interface is the most difficult internet service to protect.

A LANL contractor made the mistake of emailing classified information from a non-secured email network.

The FBI is probably underestimating here with their 1 million figure. Whether they are serious and capable of doing anything about it remains to be proven.

#1: Fixed passwords. #2: Neglecting inbound threats from e-mail, the Web and instant messaging. #3: Forgetting that data traffic is two-way. #4: Not encrypting data.

Prominent anti-spam services came under a sustained denial of service attack late last week. The assault targeted Spamhaus, Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL), and Realtime URI Blacklist (URIBL).

A provider of online security services has uncovered a highly sophisticated phishing scheme that has already duped at least 1,400 US executives.

This new protocol is the better of the few competing new protocols to prevent forgery. According to Eric Allman, "I think primarily this will be attacking phishing for now. ID fraud is incidental to spam, but it's fundamental to phishing."

Black hat hackers like using your PC more than their own. It is "more lucrative -- and less risky -- way of making money illicitly".

If you don't use encryption of some sort, your email is available to anyone with a wifi antenna nearby.

Hackers can easily set up wireless access points in public places that appear to be legitimate. They then "own" all the unencrypted information you transmit.

Spammers use first wave to send out love e-mails and then a second round to warn against the first round as a trojan. Both rounds of e-mails are infected.

Your Exchange server is vulnerable to this 24 hour threat and could be the next victim.

Public hotspots and other wireless technology are wide open to hacking and eavesdropping.

This article gives some useful tips to make your legitimate emails resistant to being accidentally caught by spam filters.

Too much attention for this little worm.

90% of email will be spam by the end of the year.