ISR News: Monster Breach at Monster.com
Monster.com Press Release
We continue to devote significant resources to ensure Monster has appropriate security controls in place to protect our infrastructure, and while no company can completely prevent unauthorized access to data, Monster believes that by reaching out to job seekers, the company can help users better defend themselves against similar attacks.
ISR News: Hollywood-Style Cyber Crooks
Excerpts From the FT.com’s Megan Murphey
“The attempt was made by surreptitiously entering the bank at night, by corrupting its computer system and by attempting to electronically transfer money,” said prosecutor Simon Farrell, QC. “A number of people were involved in different ways to steal the money and some were closely connected to its distribution around the world.”
ISR News: Obama Sets Cyber Strategy
Excerpts From NetworkWorld.com’s Robert McMillan
The Obama administration has published a high-level plan to protect U.S. computer networks, saying it considers cyber infrastructure “a strategic asset” and will appoint a cyber adviser who will report directly to the president.
ISR News: 64% of Executives Ignore Security
Excerpts From SANS.org
Just 36 percent of respondents indicated that the board of directors at their company was directly involved in the management of the company’s information security. The statistics were gathered from a pool of 703 respondents who serve on boards of US-listed public companies.
ISR News: ID Thefts Traced to Temp
Excerpts From WVGazette.com’s Eric Eyre
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is sending 11,000 letters to people who received flu shots from the agency since October, warning them that their personal information may have been stolen by a former department temporary worker.
ISR News: Cyber-Crime Advice for Obama
From Sysman.com
Critical government, military, and civilian networks have been repeatedly infiltrated to steal our intellectual property and national secrets. So, how do we build a modern, national cyber security policy as we enter into the 44th Presidency? The Center for Strategic and International Studies’ report weighed in on this topic, but I think they missed the point in their technical recommendations,” Aziz said in a blog post.
ISR News: World’s Biggest Data Breach
Excerpts From Forbes.com’s Taylor Buley
Talk about a credit crisis: Heartland Payment Systems, a credit card payment processing firm, may have been the victim of the largest data breach to date. The Princeton, N.J.-based firm said Tuesday that it discovered malicious software in its systems that compromised the security of the data traversing its network. It’s unclear what data may have been tampered with or stolen, but Heartland said no merchant data, cardholder Social Security numbers, unencrypted PIN numbers, addresses or telephone numbers “were involved in the breach.”
ISR News: Obama’s Cyber-Security Push
Excerpts from WSJ.com’s Ben Worthen
While the outgoing Bush administration took steps over the last two years to improve cyber security, “we don’t think it’s keeping pace with the progress necessary to keep the country safe,” says John Stewart, chief security officer for Cisco Systems.
ISR News: UK Ministry of Defense Attacked
Excerpts from CIO.com’s Jeremy Kirk
The U.K. Ministry of Defence is in the midst of an electronic fight with a computer virus that rapidly spread through its computer networks starting Jan. 6. The virus infected computers throughout the military, including those used by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, and is one of the most severe attacks the organization has ever faced, according to a Ministry of Defence spokeswoman.
ISR News: Ruski Wi-Fi Hacker For Sale
Excerpts from TechWorld.com’s John E. Dunn
The Russian security company that caused a stir some months by talking up its cracking tool for recovering Wi-Fi encryption keys, has started selling its software to all-comers in a specially packaged product. Normally, running a tool to do this on a conventional Intel Core 2 Duo desktop PC would take months to brute force even a single 8-character WPA/WPA2-PSK password, of which there are trillions of possible alpha-numeric combinations at that bit length.
