Pennsylvania's Web security officer leaves post a week after talking about PennDOT hacking incident

Pennsylvania's Web security officer leaves post a week after talking about PennDOT hacking incident

Pennsylvania's Web security officer leaves post a week after talking about PennDOT hacking incident

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InfoSec News: Pennsylvania's Web security officer leaves post a week after talking about PennDOT hacking incident: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/03/pennsylvanias_web_security_off.html
By JAN MURPHY The Patriot-News March 10, 2010
Last week, Pennsylvania's chief information security officer Robert Maley was at an information security conference in San Francisco talking [...]

The FBI supply chain illustrated

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InfoSec News: The FBI supply chain illustrated: http://blogs.csoonline.com/the_fbi_supply_chain_illustrated
By Robert McMillan Security Blanket 2010-03-09
While FBI Director Robert Mueller was talking about possible threats to the U.S. supply chain at the RSA Conference last week, staffers at the [...]

Colorado Springs man allegedly sabotaged TSA computers

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InfoSec News: Colorado Springs man allegedly sabotaged TSA computers: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14648083
By Howard Pankratz The Denver Post 03/10/2010
A former employee of the Transportation Security Administration has been indicted by the Denver federal grand jury for attempting to sabotage TSA computers that enable TSA airport personnel to spot potential terrorists before they board airliners.
Douglas James Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, worked for the TSA from August 2004 through October 2009.
According to the indictment, Duchak sent a code or virus into computers at the TSA's Colorado Springs Operations Center in the attempt to disable the TSA computer system, which receives information from the government's Terrorist Screening Database and the U.S. Marshal's Service Warrant Information Network.
The indictment said that the TSA computer system is critical in "vetting of individuals" who are attempting to gain access to "secure areas of the nation's transportation system."
The indictment said that Duchak's duties included updating the databases with new information.
He allegedly inserted a virus programmed to spread on a specific date to destroy the computer system.
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Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken offline

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InfoSec News: Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken offline: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/10/massive_zeus_takedown/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 10th March 2010
At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend [...]

WhitePages.com halts ad networks over malware

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InfoSec News: WhitePages.com halts ad networks over malware: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10466753-245.html
By Elinor Mills InSecurity Complex CNet News March 10, 2010
WhitePages.com has stopped ad networks from delivering ads to its site after they were found to contain fake antivirus malware.
"On Monday morning WhitePages received reports from users [about] malware in the form of a fake antivirus upsell program that we believe originated (against our terms) from a third-party advertising network serving ads on our website, in addition to other websites," a WhitePages spokeswoman said in an e-mail late Tuesday.
"We immediately suspended the networks in question at which time the reports from users subsided," she wrote. "We are working diligently to prevent this from happening in the future."
A representative for the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works said on Tuesday that officials were looking at WhitePages.com and Drudge Report as possible sources of malware that had affected Senate computers the day before.
Matt Drudge denied the accusation on his site and accused the committee of politicking. But several CNET readers reported that they too had been hit with the malware when they visited the Drudge Report Web site, a conservative news aggregator that sometimes authors stories too.
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