RECON 2011 CFP

RECON 2011 CFP

RECON 2011 CFP

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InfoSec News: RECON 2011 CFP: Forwarded from: hfortier (at) recon.cx
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New cyber espionage unit revealed

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InfoSec News: New cyber espionage unit revealed: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/new-cyber-espionage-unit-revealed-20110309-1bo0y.html
By Dylan Welch The Sydney Morning Herald March 10, 2011
ASIO has created a unit to combat cyber spying, in the latest move by government to protect Australia's online networks. [...]

Penn Mutual Says Employee Might Have Disclosed Customer Data

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InfoSec News: Penn Mutual Says Employee Might Have Disclosed Customer Data: http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/privacy/229300663/penn-mutual-says-employee-might-have-disclosed-customer-data.html
By Tim Wilson Darkreading Mar 09, 2011
An employee of the Penn Mutual Insurance company gained unauthorized [...]

Safari, IE hacked first at Pwn2Own

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InfoSec News: Safari, IE hacked first at Pwn2Own: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214002/Safari_IE_hacked_first_at_Pwn2Own
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld March 9, 2011
Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) both fell to the first hackers who tried their luck on the browsers at Wednesday's opening day of Pwn2Own. [...]

Data Breach Affects 2,777 Henry Ford Health System Patients

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InfoSec News: Data Breach Affects 2,777 Henry Ford Health System Patients: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Data-Breach-Affects-2777-Henry-Ford-Health-System-Patients-415908/
By Brian T. Horowitz eWEEK.com 2011-03-09
The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has started notifying by postal mail 2,777 patients affected by a missing flash drive. [...]

U.S. agents charge ex-employee of N.J. technology company with giving China sensitive military data

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InfoSec News: U.S. agents charge ex-employee of N.J. technology company with giving China sensitive military data: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/federal_agents_charge_ex-emplo.html
By Jason Grant The Star-Ledger March 08, 2011
Federal agents today arrested and charged a former employee of a New Jersey-based division of a technology company with giving China [...]

35,000 Chinese websites hacked in 2010

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InfoSec News: 35,000 Chinese websites hacked in 2010: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/98649/7315003.html
By People's Daily Online March 10, 2011
A total of 35,000 websites on the Chinese mainland were attacked by hackers in 2010, including 4,635 government websites, according to the Internet security report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC) on March 9.
The report shows that the IP addresses of 5 million domestic host computers were infected with a trojan horse or corpse virus.
According to the report, government websites are vulnerable to hacker attacks and websites of financial institutions have become the main targets of hackers. According to the monitoring by the CNCERT/CC, 35,000 websites on Chinese mainland were victims of hackers in 2010, a decrease of 22 percent from 2009. Of them, however, 4,635 were government websites, an increase of 68 percent from a year earlier. Around 60 percent of ministerial-level websites have potential security risks to various degrees.
“Hackers use two main means to attack government websites. One means is to turn the homepage of government websites into that of hacker organizations in order to show off their skills and the other is to hide hackers' own pages on government Web sites before telling potential buyers that the servers and bandwidth of the government Web sites have been under their control and can be leased and transferred to criminals," said Zhou Yonglin, head of the Operation Department under the CNCERT/CC.
Furthermore, there is an increasingly evident profit-seeking trend for network criminal behaviors. websites of large-scale e-commerce operators, financial institutions and third party online payment service providers have become the main targets of phishing. Hackers have made knockoff websites and tempted users to log in and trade in order to steal their accounts and passwords, leading to losses.

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