Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
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Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
Thank you to everyone who wrote in on the FDIC FIL 3- 2012 guidance to banks.......
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
Hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Swedish government's main website.......
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
The commander of the US Army Military District of Washington has announced that Pfc.......
Commerce Dept’s Economic Development Administration Suffers Cyber Attack (February 2 & 3, 2012)
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
The computer network of US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) has been hit with what appears to be a virus, forcing EDA to disable email and Internet access until an investigation determines the cause and scope of the problem.......
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
BT Junkie, a torrent search engine that is unaffiliated with BitTorrent, has voluntarily shuttered its website, ostensibly over concerns that it may be the target of law enforcement action similar to that which forced the shutdown of Megaupload.......
Film Company Includes Owners of Unsecured WiFi Networks in Filesharing Lawsuit (February 6, 2012)
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
A California company has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from more than 50 named and unnamed Massachusetts individuals for participating in illegal filesharing.......
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
Both houses of the New Hampshire state legislature have passed HB 418, which "requires state agencies to consider open source software when acquiring software and promotes the use of open data formats by state agencies.......
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
Facebook and Google say they have removed content deemed "offensive" by Indian government officials.......
ISC-CERT Warns of Brute Force SSH Attack Threat for SCADA Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)
Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by SANS NewsBites
The Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ISC-CERT) has issued a warning to utilities that certain supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems may be vulnerable to brute-force attacks.......