“The intent is to compromise the family computer and indirectly gain access to confidential correspondence and intellectual property relating to the target”

Cyber-thieves have set their sights on C-level executives with sophisticated social-engineering techniques designed to steal data, according to security researchers at MessageLabs. via CIO Insight
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Fraudsters have been busy at work exploiting the hype surrounding last week’s launch of the Apple iPhone. via Channel Register
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Security researchers are warning users about spam e-mails that are being sent out in massive waves to infect machines with a variant of the Storm worm.The e-mails entice users into going to malicious Web sites where their machines can be infected.
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June saw a record number of targeted email attacks by an unidentified criminal gang. The attack, which targeted a variety of people, all working in senior management positions in different industry sectors around the world, was so precisely addressed that the name and job title of the recipient was included in the subject line of the email.
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A study by Trend Micro suggests that corporate computer users have a cavalier attitude to IT security in the workplace. The study tracked responses from 1,200 corporate users across the US and UK.
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Studies in the UK show that 23% of users have clicked a link in spam to get more information, and 4% have gone on to make a purchase.
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I resisted automated mail filtering for a couple of years, figuring that the problem wasn’t too bad, and that I could always detect and delete spam with only a little bit of work. via O’Reilly Network Blogs
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On June 1st, ICANN publised a shortreporton what they plan to do about registry failure.(It’s not a failure plan, it’s a plan to develop a plan.)They invited me to comment on it, so here’s what I said.You can see all thecomments on ICANN’s web site; the only other substantial one is theone from Chuck Gomes, although Ed Hasbrouck’s questions about the secretamendments to the .AERO registry are interesting, too.

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Most of the report is pretty good. The first three sections give a goodoverview of the software and data involved in running a registry. Iagree with the taxonomy of failure scenarios in section 5.Section 4 tells us that voluntary transitions have consistently workedwell, so there is little reason to spend much time and effort worryingabout them or setting rules for them.Sections 6 and 7 are less good. I realize that they’re just guidelinesfor future work, but they have some problematic implicit assumptions,and do not, in my opinion, set out an adequate task list to preparefor many likely failure scenarios.See more …
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Two recent cases that caught my attention: - US v. Impulse Media Group , 2007 WL 1725560 . via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
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