Iowa Homeland Security Web site "compromised"

Iowa Homeland Security Web site "compromised"

Iowa Homeland Security Web site "compromised"

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InfoSec News: Iowa Homeland Security Web site "compromised": http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100304/NEWS/100304002/1001/Iowa-Homeland-Security-Web-site-compromised
By WILLIAM PETROSKI dmreg.com March 4, 2010
The Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division's Web site has been "compromised," a state official said today. [...]

New BlackEnergy Trojan Targeting Russian, Ukrainian Banks

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InfoSec News: New BlackEnergy Trojan Targeting Russian, Ukrainian Banks: http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223101487
By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading March 04, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA Conference 2010 -- Russian hackers have written a more sophisticated version of the infamous BlackEnergy Trojan associated [...]

White House Cyber Czar: 'There Is No Cyberwar'

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InfoSec News: White House Cyber Czar: 'There Is No Cyberwar': http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/schmidt-cyberwar/
By Ryan Singel Threat Level Wired.com March 4, 2010
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United [...]

Heartland Aftershocks: Still at Risk?

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InfoSec News: Heartland Aftershocks: Still at Risk?: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=2264
By Linda McGlasson Managing Editor Bank Info Security March 4, 2010
Earlier this week, First National Bank of Durango, CO came forward to reveal that as many as 5,000 of its customers were at risk because of [...]

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-09

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InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-09: ========================================================================
The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-02-25 - 2010-03-04
This week: 64 advisories [...]

FBI Director: Hackers have corrupted valuable data

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InfoSec News: FBI Director: Hackers have corrupted valuable data: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9166378/FBI_Director_Hackers_have_corrupted_valuable_data?taxonomyId=17
By Robert McMillan IDG News Service March 4, 2010
Hackers breaking into businesses and government agencies with targeted attacks have not only stolen intellectual property, in some cases they have corrupted data too, the head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.
The United States has been under assault from these targeted spear-phishing attacks for years, but they received mainstream attention in January, when Google admitted that it had been hit and threatened to pull its business out of China -- the presumed source of the attack -- as a result.
FBI Director Robert Mueller called these attacks a threat to the nation's security on Thursday, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. "Just one breach is all they need in order to open the floodgates," he said, speaking about the hackers behind these intrusions. "We have seen not only a loss of data, but also a corruption of that data."
Mueller did not say exactly what he meant by corruption of data, but security experts worry that if attackers are able to alter source code, they might put back-doors or logic bombs in the software they gain access to.
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'Severe' OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto

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InfoSec News: 'Severe' OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/severe_openssl_vulnerability/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 4th March 2010
Computer scientists say they've discovered a "severe vulnerability" in the world's most widely used software encryption package that allows [...]

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