Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News A new, yet-to-be-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel has been exploited in at least one targeted cyber attack, experts warned on Friday. In addition, the monthly set of patches Microsoft released on Tuesday included a fix for a Word...
[June 19, 2006, 9:40]
Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering
White Papers Correlation and fusion of intrusion alerts to provide effective Situation Awareness of cyber-attacks has become an active area of research. For many networks and their system administrators, the alerts generated by Snort are the primary indicators...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
High-tech vigilantes face legal threat
News There is no clear line between cyber defence and attack," he said. Bob Ayers, vice president of Para-Protect Europe, said, "Police can't cope with the volume of cybercrime, prosecution can't match the rate of offences, and penalties are out of...
[May 8, 2001, 14:41]
Wi-Fi 'Evil Twin' to become troublemaker
News Cranfield University believes this is a new area of cyber crime where more research is required. BaseStation Clone (Evil Twin) intercept traffic -- An attacker can trick legitimate wireless clients to connect to the attacker's honeypot network by...
[January 20, 2005, 16:45]
US Dept of Defense lists top 20 security controls
News Called Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics for Effective Cyber Defense and Continuous FISMA Compliance, the list was published on Monday by a conglomerate of US government agencies, including the NSA, US-Cert, various US Department of...
[February 23, 2009, 14:20]
Microsoft warns of new server vulnerabilities
News A recent security survey found that the number of successful attacks on Windows and government servers had dropped off steeply, following an amendment to the US's Cyber Security Enhancement Act, which gives life imprisonment to hackers who put...
[July 25, 2002, 16:17]
How CIOs can help fight cyberterror
News In fact, tabletop exercises conducted by actual owners and operators of critical infrastructures in the Pacific Northwest (code named Black Ice, from which I took the title of my book) have already demonstrated how cyber- or physically induced...
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
Excel hit by security hole
News On 16 June, experts warned about a hole that was exploited in at least one targeted cyber attack. The representative said in an email: "In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious Excel document that is sent as an...
[July 7, 2006, 15:05]
Networks boost security against attacks
News But despite the federal Terrorist Threat Advisory, which calls for IT professionals across the country to "implement appropriate security measures -- both physical and cyber," experts say corporate America is a long way from ready, or safe.
[September 17, 2001, 10:39]
Home PCs put cybersecurity at risk
News The study, funded by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance, found home users mostly unprotected from online threats and largely ignorant to the dangers. Spyware can allow unknown intruders steal important personal or financial...
[October 25, 2004, 9:25]
Researchers redefine the internet blacklist
News In formulating HPB for a network 'A', we treat attack sources that have reportedly made attacks on networks correlated with 'A' differently from attack sources that attacked the same number but uncorrelated networks," researchers said in a...
[July 25, 2008, 16:03]
Skype update hangs up on hackers
News The flaw could let an attacker construct a Skype hyperlink which, when clicked on by the target, sends a file from the victim's computer to another Skype user, the company said in a security alert published Friday.
[May 22, 2006, 10:10]
Experts: Web attacks not over yet
News Tools, such as the Tribe Flood Network and a variant known as Stacheldraht, allow an attacker to set up remote "agents" on cracked computer systems that can conduct the same sort of attack as those that hit Yahoo!
[February 10, 2000, 8:45]
