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Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says Verisign

2008-06-06 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at Verisign
 
Tags: e-mail attacks, verisign, victims, researchers, data, criminals, past, months
 
 
 
 
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Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says Verisign

2008-06-06 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Verisign estimates that spear-phishing attacks have taken in 15,000 victims over the past 15 months
 
Tags: attacks, verisign, victims, past, months
 
 
 
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/10/07 (backdated from 1/3/08 Organization S&K Famous Brands (S&K Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Online customers of www.skmenswear.com Number Affected Unknown 25 reported New Hampshire residents Types of Data Names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers, and expiration...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, notification, information security, breach notification letter, sample customer letter, credit card, credit card data
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/24/08 Organization OmniAmerican Bank Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Internal bank systems and account numbers Breach Description An "international gang of cyber criminals" breached OmniAmerican bank systems and used a variety of...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/3/07 Organization UT-Battelle, LLC Contractor/Consultant/Branch Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory. ORNL was established in 1943 as a part of the secret Manhattan Project to pioneer a...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #68

2007-07-16 09:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (11:01 The Speaking of Security Podcast is back and offers an in-depth interview with Senior Product Marketing Manager, Jens Hinrichsen, regarding the evolution of phishing attacks. Big upticks of spear phishing and "man-in-the-middle" attacks. Also discusses the difference between Phishing and Crimeware/Malware....
 
Tags: security podcast, attacks, in-depth interview, senior product, spear, listendownload, difference, manager, discusses
 
 
 
 
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Spear Phishing with Better Business Bureau complaints

2008-04-25 00:04:25 by HASH0x8471174 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
I received the following email yesterday purporting to be from the BBB. It looked phishy to me, so of course I did not click the link and did a little investigating. However, I could see how someone would be fooled on this one, thinking someone filed a bogus complaint against them. Almost as good as the subpoena story I heard from a customer...
 
Tags: complaint, complaint status, complaint filed, filed, business, business bureau, bogus complaint, bbb, valid omb control
 
 
 
 
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Resist the latest business phishes

2008-05-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472ec0 in Network World on Security
 
The latest spam can take the form of a subpoena purporting to be from a United States District Court, a calendar invite, or an IRS refund, in 'net cast wide' blasts or more targeted 'spear phishing' usually aimed at businesses
 
Tags: net cast wide, calendar invite, district court, irs refund, spear, businesses, blasts, form, spam
 
 
 
 
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LPL Financial reports eighteen compromised logons

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2008-05-20 08:56:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/6/08 Organization LPL Financial Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected 10,219 Types of Data names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth Breach Description LPL Financial recently notified the Maryland State...
 
Tags: lpl financial, lpl, lpl financial recently, lpl recently, login information, information, information security governance, information privacy, data
 
 
 
 
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Symantec State of Spam Report for May

2008-06-03 08:26:41 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
Symantec has a State of Spam report that comes out every month and happened to email it to me this past month. I finally got a look into the document and here are a few highlights from the May State of Spam report An increase in the number of NDR (Non Delivery Report) bounce messages sent in response to spam with forged headers Google AdWords...
 
Tags: spam report, spam, email, instant message scams, scam email supposedly,