ISR News: Obama’s Security Risk
Excerpts From New Kerala
President Barack Obama’s life could be in danger if 34 million dollars are not granted to upgrade the communication system of the US Secret Service, a report claims. The agency says that its communication system is incompatible with the White House communication system, resulting in a ‘dangerous gap’ that could ‘prevent the attainment of the performance target of 100 percent protection.’
ISR News: Twitter Gets Phished Hard
Excerpts From CIO
Both Twitter and Facebook have been hit with phishing attacks in recent days. “The social networking attacks are becoming increasingly common,” said Jamie De Guerre, chief technology officer with antispam vendor Cloudmark. “Spammers are really moving to attack social networks because of the popularity of the social networks and also because they’re not as well defended as most e-mail platforms.”
ISR News: Home WiFi Nets Targeted
Excerpts From The West
Det-Sen. Const. Jamie McDonald, of the computer crime squad, said wireless internet users were being targeted by a crime called “war driving”, in which criminals drive around suburbs until their laptops pick up a wireless network signal. He said many people who signed up for wireless internet accounts did not activate the security programs provided and default safety software could often be bypassed by savvy criminals in minutes.
ISR News: US Army Deploying Vista?
Excerpts From Information Week
The Army is in the process of migrating hundreds of thousands of computers to Windows Vista to improve Internet security and upgrade information systems. Vista has not been a success for Microsoft like previous versions of Windows. Reviewers of the OS have found it buggy, a resource hog, hard to install, and incompatible with legacy software. In addition, the operating system’s new user interface has been difficult for many users.
ISR News: US Marshals Hunt Hackers
Excerpts From Network World
Malware Wednesday crippled Windows-based computer systems at the U.S. Marshals Service, which hunts federal fugitives and operates the country’s witness protection program, knocking the agency’s network offline.
