SANS Raises Infocon Alert To Yellow In Light Of New Windows 'Shortcut' Attack Threat

SANS Raises Infocon Alert To Yellow In Light Of New Windows 'Shortcut' Attack Threat

SANS Raises Infocon Alert To Yellow In Light Of New Windows 'Shortcut' Attack Threat

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InfoSec News: SANS Raises Infocon Alert To Yellow In Light Of New Windows 'Shortcut' Attack Threat: http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226000012
By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading July 19, 2010
A zero-day flaw being used in targeted attacks against organizations worldwide -- most notably on SCADA systems -- has security experts [...]

Prosecutor: Accused Mass. spy stole $100m in secrets for China

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InfoSec News: Prosecutor: Accused Mass. spy stole $100m in secrets for China: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/accused_spy_fro.html
By Jonathan Saltzman and Martin Finucane Globe Staff Boston.com July 19, 2010
WORCESTER -- A federal judge in Worcester is pondering whether to grant bail to a 45-year-old Westborough man who, in a highly unusual case, is accused of economic espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets about insecticides to China.
Kexue Huang faces a dozen counts of economic espionage to benefit a foreign government or instrumentality, as well as five counts of interstate or foreign transport of stolen property.
Assistant US Attorney Scott Garland said only six or seven people had ever been charged with the crime. He said the value of the information that Huang allegedly passed on exceeded $100 million.
The allegations mainly concern the period from January 2003 to February 2008, when Huang worked at Dow Chemical in Indiana. Huang allegedly conveyed the information to Hunan Normal University, prosecutors said today at a bail hearing in federal court in Worcester.
Further details about the case were unavailable. The indictment against Huang, handed up by a grand jury in Indiana, remains sealed.
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Coventry man says passport service 'breached security'

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InfoSec News: Coventry man says passport service 'breached security': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-10683577
BBC News 19 July 2010
Concerns have been raised about data confidentiality at the passport office after a Coventry man was sent two strangers' birth certificates.
Craig Corbett from Cheylesmore said his replacement passport also contained certificates belonging to a mother and daughter from Peterborough.
He said that when he rang to report the breach the Identity & Passport Service (IPS) blamed it on a computer error.
A spokesman for the Home Office which runs the IPS said it would investigate.
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[Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, July 11, 2010

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InfoSec News: [Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, July 11, 2010: ========================================================================
Open Security Foundation - DataLossDB Weekly Summary Week of Sunday, July 11, 2010
9 Incidents Added.
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Which products top the list of security concerns?

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InfoSec News: Which products top the list of security concerns?: http://gcn.com/articles/2010/07/19/adobe-reader-and-microsoft-ie-top-security-concerns.aspx
By Kurt Mackie GCN.com July 19, 2010
The majority of Internet security threats come from unpatched vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat/Reader and Microsoft's Internet [...]

Black Hat talk to reveal analysis of hacker fingerprints

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InfoSec News: Black Hat talk to reveal analysis of hacker fingerprints: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071910-black-hat-fingerprint.html
By Tim Greene Network World July 19, 2010
Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer [...]

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