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Security researchers recently found a Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate with its command and control server. The Trojan malware is being spread via e-mail through “documents (PDF, or MS Office ...

Senator Joe Lieberman recently announced the opening of a new Cyber Center. Homeland Security spent about $9 million for the new center. It will help better coordinate the government’s response to cyber attacks. ...

Facebook won a victory against a notorious spammer on October 29th when a federal judge awarded them $711 million. The judge found the spammer Sanford Wallace guilty of violating the Can-Spam Act as well as a restraining order. ...

Nigeria’s anti-corruption police have shut down 800 scam websites and busted 18 syndicates of email fraudsters. “Over 800 fraudulent e-mail addresses have been identified and shut down,” Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss Farida Waziri said. ...

Just in case you haven’t heard the economy has been in a bit of a rough patch. Everyone has been tightening their belts. Well, here’s a ray of sunshine. The Department of Homeland Security has been authorized ...

According to a recent GAO report NASA suffered hundreds of security incidents in 2007 and 2008, including malware infections, data breaches, stolen laptops and bot nets. NASA was affected by more malware than any other federal agency and reported 1,120 security incidents during this two year span. ....

The “balloon boy” story is a testament to keeping your guard up against hoaxes that some are willing to perpetrate to get past your defenses.

The recent blockbuster sci-fi movie “District 9” was reviewed by some of our staff a few weeks ago. They give the movie a ‘thumbs up’ so you should definitely go see it. It’s about an alien spacecraft ...

In celebration of National Cyber Security Awareness Month I’ve adopted one of Lou Holtz’s little stories. Lou has a special way of delivering a message. I recently caught this nugget:

There have been a slew of cyber-security related news events as of late. Robert Mueller, the FBI director, told an audience that he was nearly hooked in a phishing scam . Google’s Wave created a spike of spear-phishing attempts. ...

Two Romanians were just extradited to face charges related to a phishing scheme. The phishing scheme targeted customers of some well known financial institutions.

The Washington Post recently reported that the online payroll firm Paychoice experienced a security breach on September 23. The hackers were able to get sensitive account information as a result of this breach.

About 10,000 users had their user credentials swiped in this latest phishing attack and millions more have been warned they could be at risk. Cyber-scammers set up a fake Hotmail login page that users entered their information.

Most botnets are doing more with lessThe study tracked more than 600 botnets over a 3 month period. Most of the botnets studied, 57%, were comprised of 100 or fewer nodes. 21% of the botnets had 101 – 500 nodes. ...