U.S. attorney: Blaine hacker targeted neighbor

U.S. attorney: Blaine hacker targeted neighbor

U.S. attorney: Blaine hacker targeted neighbor

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InfoSec News: U.S. attorney: Blaine hacker targeted neighbor: http://www.startribune.com/local/north/111972394.html
By JAMES WALSH Star Tribune December 16, 2010
A Blaine man hacked into his neighbor's wireless Internet to send e-mails containing child pornography, sexual advances and threats to Vice President Joe Biden to smear and terrorize people who had made him angry, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.
What set Barry Vincent Ardolf apart, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Rank, was his computer expertise and vindictiveness to meticulously carry out a scheme that almost succeeded in making it appear that all those things came from his neighbor's computer.
Rank cautioned jurors on the first day of Ardolf's federal trial in St. Paul to not be intimidated by the technical minutiae of tapping into somebody else's wireless service and creating bogus e-mails and MySpace pages.
"This case is about a dangerous man,'' Rank said in his opening arguments. "A person who got mad at his neighbors and then used his knowledge and technical training to terrorize them and try to destroy their lives."
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Ohio State Says Hackers Breached Data on 760,000

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InfoSec News: Ohio State Says Hackers Breached Data on 760,000: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/education/17colleges.html
By TAMAR LEWIN The New York Times December 16, 2010
Ohio State University is notifying about 760,000 people whose personal information was stored in the university’s computer server that a data [...]

Compliance Means Getting A Handle On Insider Threats

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InfoSec News: Compliance Means Getting A Handle On Insider Threats: http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/client-security/228800755/compliance-means-getting-a-handle-on-insider-threats.html
By Diana Kelley and Ed Moyle Contributing Writers Darkreading Dec 16, 2010
[Excerpted from "Compliance From The Inside Out," a new report posted [...]

Size of DDoS group 'doesn't matter', security agency says

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InfoSec News: Size of DDoS group 'doesn't matter', security agency says: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/12/16/size-of-ddos-group-doesnt-matter-security-agency-says-40091193/
By Jack Clark @mappingbabel ZDNet UK 16 December, 2010
The number of people needed to launch a successful denial-of-service attack has been overestimated by the press, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency.
Attacks such as those by pro-Wikileaks groups need significantly fewer participants than has been reported, the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) said on Tuesday. Visa was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from roughly 500 machines, Ulf Bergstrom, Enisa's spokesman, told ZDNet UK on Thursday.
"An attack can be constituted by much fewer machines [than was thought], and that is quite concerning and quite an important point to make," Bergstrom said.
DDoS attacks against Wikileaks, Visa, PayPal and various government sites all demonstrated that "size doesn't matter: the number of computers used in the attacks was relatively small (in the hundreds). Some press reports claim over six times the real number, which is indicative of the unreliability of information about botnets", Enisa wrote in a statement on Wednesday.
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County upgrades computer security for audit report

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InfoSec News: County upgrades computer security for audit report: http://www.dewitt-ee.com/articles/2010/12/15/news/doc4d08eed477f4f744440444.txt
By Christina Verderosa Dewitt Era Enterprise December 15, 2010
Arkansas County has spent a great deal of time in the past year improving computer security and data back-up plans. [...]

New corps' mission to parry cyberthreat

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InfoSec News: New corps' mission to parry cyberthreat: http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20101216_New_corps_mission_to_parry_cyberthreat.html
By William Cole Honolulu Star-Advertiser Dec 16, 2010
Their ranks include snoops and sleuths who cull intelligence obtained from submarines, ships and aircraft, monitor foreign computer traffic, [...]

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-50

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InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-50: ========================================================================
The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-12-09 - 2010-12-16
This week: 79 advisories [...]

Nuclear security urgently reviewed after Sellafield is found to be vulnerable to terrorists

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InfoSec News: Nuclear security urgently reviewed after Sellafield is found to be vulnerable to terrorists: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2010/12/16/nuclear-security-urgently-reviewed-after-sellafield-is-found-to-be-vulnerable-to-terrorists-115875-22786725/
By James Lyons Daily Mirror 16/12/2010
Special forces carrying out “red team exercises” to test­security at [...]

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