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Eastern Michigan university has released information regarding a server security breach on Sept 3, 2010. EMU IT staff discovered on Saturday September 4th that a breach of a server containing login information for the ‘my.emich’ portal and Banner self-service areas had been compromised. An unauthorized individual gained access to the server during the previous night. The statement offers the following key points: Key points: 1. Information in the file that was accessed included login information, but no personal data such as social security...
Read More...A timely guilty plea was heard in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia with charges stemming from armed attacks on four women whom Edgar D. Romero, 24, of Bladensberg, Md., met through their Craigslist postings. Craigslist recently shut down its Adult Services section in the U.S. after much acrimonious publicity with human rights groups now calling for similar actions globally. Romero pled guilty to two counts of first degree sexual abuse while armed,...
Read More...ReD (Retail Decisions), a blue chip international payment fraud prevention group, is predicting a 9% decrease in CNP (card not present) fraud in the first six months of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. CNP fraud reached an estimated GBP122 million, a reduction of approximately 9% compared with the first six months of 2009 when CNP fraud losses totalled GBP134 million (UK Payments...
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ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, publishes an in-depth focus interview with Agency Experts on the forthcoming Cyber Security Exercise, and the cooperation between the Agency and the Member States, in the context of the Agency's Critical Infrastructure Information Protection and Resilience programs. Interview on ENISA’s first pan-European CIIP exercise with Evangelos Ouzounis, Panagiotis Trimintzios & Panagiotis...
Read More...While most of the IT workforce had a long weekend due to the Labor Day holiday, Microsoft engineers were burning the investigative midnight oil, thanks to a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that has resurfaced. If exploited, the flaw could go viral, leading to attacks on webmail and social networking, to name but a few. The story itself begins with a blog post made by researcher Chris Evans, where he explained the process of abusing the standards related to the loading of CSS style sheets in a browser. The attack starts with the injection of...
Read More...The police hosted a workshop for cyber café owners here on Monday. Nearly 200 cyber café owner participated in it. A free cyber café security software was launched by Ideacts Innovations Ltd on the occasion. The objective of the workshop was to ensure Cyber Security and better data management at cyber cafés. “Cyber cafés are sought after by all sorts of anti-social elements such as fraudsters, data thieves and terrorists. Given the...
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Goodmail Systems®, the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry standard for trusted-class email, today announced a distribution partnership with Truedomain®, a trusted provider of authentication and antiphishing solutions, that gives email senders the key analytics and intelligence to monitor email performance and protect their domains and brands from being used in phishing attacks. Integrated with and accessible through Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail family of products, the Truedomain Antiphishing NetworkTM offers a standards-based authentication...
Read More...The Council of Europe has announced its intended contribution to a range of workshops and sessions at the forthcoming IGF in Vilnius. These include a workshop to discuss the Budapest Convention as a common basis for joint action against Cybercrime. Workshop 23 entitled 'Cybercrime: Common Standards and Joint Action', will take place on Wednesday 15th...
Read More...EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, is pleased to announce that .eu has a complete ‘chain of trust’ for Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, with the addition of .eu DNSSEC key material to the Internet’s root zone. The .eu zone was enabled for DNSSEC on 15 June 2010 knowing that the Internet’s highest level, the root zone, would become DNSSEC-compliant at a future date. Indeed, DNSSEC was fully deployed at the Internet root zone during July 2010 creating a single trust anchor. EURid’s...
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