SecurityWeek

Information Theft At Global Companies Surpasses All Other Forms of Fraud for First Time. Corporate Information Technology Systems are Increasingly Under Threat 

Adobe today announced its new Acrobat X Family of products, which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. In the new release, Adobe is adding an entirely new security strategy by introducing a new “Protected Mode” in Acrobat Reader. Announced this past summer, Protected Mode utilizes "sandboxing" technology based on Microsoft’s “Practical Windows Sandboxing technique ” – a method of isolating the application from the rest of the operating system...

University of North Florida Suffers Data Breach 

Charles Schwab Clients Targeted in Recent Malware AttackThreat researchers from Fortinet have decrypted a yet another variant of the Zeus botnet, one that specifically targets Charles Schwab customers.

Massive Attack Targets Businesses Using EFTPS.Gov Tax Services Web Site

New Feature for Safe Browsing Alerts Helps Network Administrators Locate Phishing URLs

Vulnerability Could Allow Attacker to Execute Arbitrary Code or Cause a denial-of-service ConditionRIM has released a security advisory to address a security issue in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. According to RIM, the vulnerability could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or execution of arbitrary code on the computer that the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs on.

GE today announced the acquisition of Australia-based data migration and SCADA simulation specialists, Opal Software. Opal Software supplies professional engineering services and SCADA and DMS software products to electricity, water and gas utilities. The company’s data migration capabilities help clients to switch quickly between multiple platforms.

Organized crime enterprise known as the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian, fleeced the health care system through a wide-range of money making criminal fraud schemesThe FBI reported this week that seventy-three people, including a number of alleged members and associates of an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise, were charged in indictments with various health care fraud-related crimes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent billing.

Theory of Unspoofable Device Identification Using NAND Flash MemoryMarkus Jakobsson and Karl-Anders Johansson

Cyber Defense Competition Draws 651 Teams From Across The NationBack on September 24th we reported that CyberPatriot, a cyber defense competition for high schools, had registered more than 450 teams. In just a couple weeks, registration has spiked to 661 teams.

Qualys, a provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced that it is offering two-factor authentication to its QualysGuard customers worldwide.

As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, students from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University’s (NYU-Poly) Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) Lab are offering tips on how to keep information safe on you mobile device.

Afilias, a provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for five country code Top-Level-Domains (ccTLDs) in Latin America and the Caribbean region.The latest top level domains that have been enabled with DNSSEC support include: .AG (Antigua and Barbuda), .BZ (Belize), .HN (Honduras) .LC (St. Lucia), and .VC (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines).