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Nuclear Plant Email Bogus; Possible Virus

San Clemente Times

April 09, 2008

A bogus email claiming that a nuclear incident had occured at the "San Clemente Nucklear Power Station" is completely false, according to SDGE officials.

Further, alerts have been issued on the Internet warning of a possible virus attached to the spam email. San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) officials first learned of the inflammatory and erroneous email at 3:55 p.m. PT Monday.

Locking It Down: Protect Your Business from Cyberthieves

KRISTV

by Eve Tamincioglu

April 09, 2008

Every six to eight months, a zombie attacks the e-mail server at Guy Brown, a Brentwood Tenn. company that refurbishes and sells office products.

It's not a Dawn of the Dead zombie, but a virus that invades computer systems to send bogus junk mail. The intruder has even caused one of the $150 million company's biggest customers to stop accepting its e-mails.

Computer Virus Attacking Ohio Valley Residents

The State Journal

by Dave Elias

March 29, 2008

WELLSBURG -- A nasty computer bug is infecting the Mountain State and places across the country. It's known as Virus Heat.

Basically, it's a scamming virus which makes you think you have a virus and it tries to get you to purchase bogus software to remove it.

McAfee CEO, chairman retires after probe

chron.com

October 17, 2006

Antivirus and security software provider McAfee Inc. on Wednesday said it fired President Kevin Weiss, and announced that CEO and Chairman George Samenuk will retire after a stock options investigation found accounting problems that will require financial

Its shares rose 97 cents, or almost 4 percent, to $26.76 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the news. McAfee said it determined it will need to restate certain financial results to record additional non-cash charges for stock-based compensation expense over a 10-year period. The charges are likely to range between $100 million and $150 million, the company said.

Superintendent Trojan

Heise Security

October 09, 2006

The Swiss Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK) is examining the use of spy software to allow it to listen in on conversations on PCs.

The software comes from Swiss security company ERA IT Solutions, which intends to supply it solely to investigation agencies. This should also prevent antivirus manufacturers from incorporating it into their databases and having their tools recognise it. According to the manufacturer, firewalls do not present a problem.

Sony PSP TIFF Image Viewing Code Execution Vulnerability

Secunia

August 31, 2006

A vulnerability has been discovered in Sony PlayStation Portable, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in libTIFF and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a specially crafted TIFF image is viewed in the Photo Viewer. The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.60 and has also been reported in versions 2.00 through 2.80.

Hacker faces prison for PC attacks; Northwest Hospital among targets

Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA)

by Mike Barber

August 25, 2006

A 20-year-old California hacker who created a virus that jeopardized patients at Northwest Hospital in Seattle, damaged computers at U.S. military installations worldwide and affected thousands of others will be sentenced today.

Federal prosecutors will ask U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman to send Christopher Maxwell to prison for six years. Maxwell's lawyer will argue that only probation and community service is warranted, according to court documents. Defense attorney Steven Bauer cites Maxwell's lack of a criminal record.

Secret Service: Inside Attacks Generally Launched By Problem Employees

Information Week

by Sharon Gaudin

August 25, 2006

The key indicator is a repeat "problem child" who continually argues with fellow employees, complains about salary or benefits, or is otherwise aggressive or hostile.

Brian Robak, a network security analyst at National Cooperative Bank, used to manage the company's help desk workers back when he was the LAN manager. Being a manager is never an easy chore, but there was one employee who generally made his job a nightmare. A full 80% of people who launch a computer-related attack on their own company's system had been problem employees, according to the Secret Service.

U.S. Warns PC Users of Flaw in Windows

New York Times

by John Markoff

August 11, 2006

The flaw would make it possible to install malicious programs or to change or delete data.

The Department of Homeland Security issued an unusual security alert yesterday, warning users of Windows-based personal computers to patch a flaw in the Microsoft operating system. On Tuesday, Microsoft issued its monthly list of security flaws, including one that the company rated "critical."

Researcher: Hacker Sophistication Outpacing Forensics

informationweek.com

by Kevin McLaughlin

August 09, 2006

In the never-ending cat-and-mouse game between hackers and those charged with stopping them, it's pretty clear who's winning--and it's not the cat.

Speaking at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas last week, Kevin Mandia, president of Mandiant, an Alexandria, Va.-based security consultancy, said attackers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to evade detection and make life difficult for security incident response teams. The sophistication of hackers' tools is outpacing that of investigators' forensic tools, and one of the consequences is that incident response teams charged with investigating attacks on networks are taking between 5 and 8 days to find malicious code, Mandia said. "Malware analysis can be time consuming, and most firms don't want to spend the money to fully analyze the malicious code, which could cause further damage [to the network]," said Mandia.

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