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Holiday Fever Leads to Hacking

2008-12-10 09:12:06 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...holiday season Hacker attacks against retail sites increased by 161% in the July to November period compared with the first six months of this year, according to security firm SecureWorks. After a big increase in network-scanning reconnaissance attacks in October, hackers dramatically increase efforts to fraudulently authenticate themselves...
 
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Virus Center: Tips for online holiday shoppers to safeguard against banker trojans

2007-12-17 22:43:37 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Banker trojans, whose primary goal is financial gain, work in various ways, from capturing keystrokes to redirecting users to fake banking sites. Another threat that consumers face during the holiday
 
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Holiday spirit helped double Storm worm

2008-01-11 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam and a long holiday season helped the criminals behind the notorious Storm Worm more than double their network of infected PCs over the past few weeks, security experts say
 
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Long holiday weekend

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2008-05-23 07:47:30 by HASH0x8b42c24 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...holiday weekend with the family. We are driving up to Orlando to stop in Disney World and SeaWorld. Going to check out the new water park they opened there called Aquatica . It has water rides unlike any we have ever seen. A day there and two days at Disney should have the kids in a great mood. Lets see what kind of mood it leaves me in....
 
Tags: weekend, holiday weekend, water rides unlike, disney world, disney, mood, gas tank, water park, orlando
 
 
 
 
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Holiday Travel: Ways to Keep Your Laptop, Privacy Safe

2008-11-24 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
If you're planning on traveling with your laptop this holiday season, you might want to travel prepared. The statistics are overwhelmingly bad: According to Gartner, one laptop is stolen every 53 seconds
 
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Safe Computing During The Holiday Season

2008-11-25 14:32:07 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
The holiday season is a time of increased online activity. During the hustle and bustle that surrounds this time of year, whats more convenient than saving a little time (and money) by shopping and b
 
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ScienceLogic Holiday Spirit

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2008-12-19 20:24:49 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...holiday party last week. He came with a bag full of gag gifts for the team. We had a delicious spread of food and continued the business tradition of everyone pitching in towards the camaraderie that permeated the day. The best part of the day for me was to see how much laughter and team spirit filled the air not to mention how good the team...
 
Tags: sciencelogic, sciencelogic holiday party, team, team spirit, leapfrog technologies, delicious spread, 2nd half, day, gag gifts
 
 
 
 
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Fake Christmas, holiday greetings spread new malware

2008-12-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x84739f0 in Network World on Security
 
New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said today, a tactic reminiscent of those used last season by the notorious Storm Trojan horse
 
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Spammers Take A Cheap Shot...

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2008-08-19 14:24:05 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...holiday this week, but thought I'd better give this a mention anyway (plus, when did being on holiday ever stop me from posting stuff on blogs, right I was surprised to see this posted to the comments section of the Sunbelt Blog I was about as surprised as The Dean was To quote a further post from The Dean Well, that's weird. Isn't...
 
Tags: holiday, pop zango installers, sunbelt blog, blogs, spywareguide paperghost, recent blogs, blog, spywareguide, news websites
 
 
 
 
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FBI Stoking Fear

2008-11-27 12:27:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...holiday season," according to the warning dated Tuesday Rep. Peter King, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said authorities "have very real specifics as to who it is and where the conversation took place and who conducted it It certainly involves suicide bombing attacks on the mass transit system in and around New...