NewsBits for April 26, 2006
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Fraudsters steal 2,000 credit card details
Fraudsters stole the credit card details
of 2,000 MasterCard holders in a major
security breach last week. silicon.com
was contacted by one customer of the
Clydesdale Bank who was told that her
MasterCard details, along with those
of 2,000 other people, were "in the
hands of a fraudster".
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39158371,00.htm
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Former Montville Constable pleads guilt to having child porn
A former Montville police constable pleaded
guilty Tuesday to gathering child pornography
from the Internet, the U.S. Department of
Justice announced. John Salmon, 39, formerly
of 33-3 Windermere Ave., Vernon, pleaded
guilty on the charge before U.S. District
Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven.
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS01/604260328/1002
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Man Facing Over 150 Child Porn Related Charges
A man previously arrested on charges
of distributing child pornography faces
additional charges after photos were found
of him allegedly having sex with teenage
boys, authorities said. Michael James
Tyler, 34, was charged with 157 counts
of possession of photographs of the sexual
performance of a child, the Glades County
Sheriff's Office said.
http://www.wftv.com/news/9007954/detail.html
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS/604260376/1004
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Man faces prison term for child porn
A 44-year-old Jackson man is facing an
18-month prison term after admitting Monday
he possessed child pornography on his home
computer. Glenn M. Yokel of Wyoming Drive,
who is on the State Police sex offender
registry, pleaded guilty before Superior
Court Judge Edward J. Turnbach to endangering
the welfare of a child by possessing child
pornography.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS02/604260434/1070/NEWS02
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Dateline's sex predator sting comes to Fort Myers
After three months of investigation and a three
day sting, the Fort Myers Police Department
believes it has taken two dozen sexual predators
off the internet. Over the weekend, the men showed
up to a Fort Myers home expecting to find a child.
Instead they found police and a Dateline NBC crew.
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=6783
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Newsday Temp Arrested in Child Sex Sting
Four men, including a temp at Newsday, have
been arrested in a sting operation to take
down online sex predators, according to
Suffolk cops. Police say the four suspects
actively and aggressively initiated online
chat of a sexual nature with undercover
detectives posing as children. In addition,
the suspects arranged to meet the children
to engage in sexual conduct.
http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=162&show=article&a_id=8288
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DOT worker in Bayside charged in child porn case
A 37-year-old Long Island man who worked
at a Bayside office of the state Department
of Transportation has been charged with
possessing child pornography,
prosecutors said Tuesday.
http://www.timesledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16530955
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Massena man indicted for child porn
A Massena man faces child pornography charges
after the unsealing of a Grand Jury Indictment.
The Daily Courier-Observer says 40 year old
Patrick Foster was arrested Monday on a bench
warrant after the indictment was opened in
St. Lawrence County Court. Police had seized
Foster's computer in 2004 during an unrelated
investigation, the paper reported.
http://www.newswatch50.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=20698611-7EB7-4ECA-84BD-BC7D42C10E92
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Rare child porn trial to begin
When Donald Anson enters a courtroom in the
Kenneth B. Keating Federal Building on Monday,
he will become the first defendant to be tried
on child pornography charges in U.S. District
Court in Rochester in more than two decades.
The case against the 50-year-old Rochester man
will include the graphic, disturbing images
that prosecutors say were found on his computer
and computer disks; testimony from computer
experts who'll attest that the images are
of real children and not computer-manufactured
portrayals; and testimony from law enforcement
officials from across the country who know
some of the youths who were photographed
while being molested.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060423/NEWS01/604230358/1002/NEWS
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Man faces child-porn charges
An Orange County man was arrested and charged
with possession of child pornography after
a New York-based investigation uncovered
credit-card payments to a hard-core Web
site, court records show. Regan Cornelius,
who lives in the Stoneybrook East development
in east Orange County, is being held without
bail at the Seminole County Jail after a
federal judge on Friday would not release
the 27-year-old. Members of the FBI's Innocent
Images Task Force used a search warrant in
August to seize Cornelius' computer. FBI
Special Agent Nickolas Savage, in a criminal
complaint, said a subsequent computer forensic
exam found "several hundred images and movie
files of child pornography."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/technology/orl-mcfbriefs25_506apr25,0,7695447.story
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Breach case could curtail Web flaw finders
Security researchers and legal experts
have voiced concern this week over the
prosecution of an information-technology
professional for computer intrusion after
he allegedly breached a university's online
application system while researching
a flaw without the school's permission.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11389
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EU seeks minimum sentence for goods forgery
Forged goods have become an increasing
concern for European businesses, whose
brands and products are under growing
threat from high-quality copies that
are often hard to distinguish from
genuine versions.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/83204150-d479-11da-a357-0000779e2340.html
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Bank of America Fights Phishing as a Unit
If you are a large e-mail sender constantly
subjected to phishing scams, all parts of
your organization must be on the same page
to combat the problem, Eric Johnson, vice
president of Bank of America, said at the
Email Authentication Summit here last week.
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=36543
Phishers cast their nets wider
http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2154811/phishers-turn-attentions
Phishers Catch Victims With VoIP
http://internetweek.cmp.com/news/186701099
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,110894,00.html
Phishers Taking A Multilingual Approach
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6179/phishers_taking_multilingual_approach/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/international_phishing_survey/
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Privacy needs to be baked into systems, experts say
To be as effective as possible, agency
privacy officers should not act as a
Dr. No. Rather, they should be an important
part of the team that helps focus a system,
two privacy officials said.
http://www.fcw.com/article94173-04-25-06-Web
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Microsoft rolls out browser fixes
Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new test
version of Internet Explorer, the market-
leading Web browser that is facing competition
from smaller players. The new beta, available
Tuesday for free download to English-languages
customers, includes fixes for problems that
were causing Internet Explorer 7 to stop
working, said Dean Hachamovitch, general
manager in charge of Internet Explorer
development.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/04/25/microsoft.explorer.ap/index.html
New IE bug puts patched Windows systems at risk
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110889,00.html?source=x73
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39158379,00.htm
How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6180/how_fix_top_10_internet_explorer_issues/
Microsoft Rocked by New IE Zero-Day Flaw Warning
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1953833,00.asp
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Firefox Bug Could Be Serious
A zero-day vulnerability in a fully-patched
and most-current version of Mozilla Corp.'s
Firefox could be exploited to crash the
browser at the least, and at the worst,
possibly introduce malicious code,
a security company warned Tuesday.
http://internetweek.cmp.com/news/186700926
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Bugs put widely used DNS software at risk
A number of flaws in the software that is
used to administer the Internet's Domain
Name System have been discovered by
researchers at Finland's University
of Oulu.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,110897,00.html
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Security firm finds holes in Cisco wireless
Cisco Systems Inc. has released patches
for eight of its products after Net security
company Assurance Pty Ltd.'s Assurance.com.au
discovered vulnerabilities in some of the
vendor's wireless products. The vulnerabilities
were discovered after studying the Cisco
Wireless LAN Solution Engine.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,110879,00.html
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Feds scramble to meet smart-card program deadline
The U.S. government is studying the viability
of a shared technology and services infrastructure
to help agencies issue new Personal Identity
Verification (PIV) smart cards to all employees
and contractors beginning in October.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110895,00.html
RSA SecurID Appliance 2.0
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6178/rsa_securid_appliance_20/
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Microsoft Details Upcoming Management Tools
Microsoft will release SMS 2003 R2 by the end
of June as it preps System Center Configuration
Manager 2007 for delivery next year. As the
company's annual management summit got underway
in San Diego Tuesday morning, Microsoft provided
a broad overview of its expanding System Center
product lineup but later drilled down on the
future of SMS, now named System Center
Configuration Manager 2007.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;j?articleID=186701031
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PGP unfazed by MS disk encryption
PGP says the whole disk encryption kit
Microsoft will bundle with Vista is no
threat to its position as the first port
of call for forgetful laptop luggers. At
its InfoSec press briefing, Microsoft was
pushing its BitLocker software as peace
of mind for firms wanting to sling old HDDs.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/
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Websense Enhances Desktop Security With Windows Firewall
Websense and Microsoft are working together
to offer customers an innovative and powerful
desktop security solution to be included in
its current release of Websense Web Security
Suite-Lockdown Edition and Websense Client
Policy Manager (CPM) version 6.2. Through
integration with Websense Web Security Suite-
Lockdown Edition and CPM, Windows XP Desktop
firewall customers will gain greater return
on their investment with easy to deploy
desktop application categorization from
Websense.
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6177/websense_enhances_desktop_ecurity_with_windows_firewall/
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Employee Password Choices Put Business Data At Risk
Experts at SophosLabs, Sophos's global
network of virus, spyware and spam analysis
centres, are strongly urging companies to
educate their employees on the importance
of choosing unique and multiple passwords
to thwart the onslaught of cyber criminal
activity in the workplace.
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6176/employee_password_choices_put_business_data_at_risk/
DTI: Businesses are getting serious about security
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39158386,00.htm
Oracle aims for restricted access
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39158380,00.htm
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Anonymity and Privacy in Electronic Services
People increasingly use the Internet for
an ever wider range of activities: reading
the newspaper, shopping, staying in contact
with family and friends, finding a partner,
booking holidays, expressing their opinion,
keeping an online diary, etc.
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6182/anonymity_privacy_electronic_services/
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Theoretical Hacking for IT Managers
Not everyone has l33t skilz or mass amounts
of hardened TCP/IP stack programming experience.
When I'm at work, I don't look at logs all day
long, nor do I run security audits every five
minutes. I do my job, which takes all of my
time. This is the situation for most small
to medium sized companies that have only
a few IT guys. So how does an everyday IT
guy handle the constant threat of impending
attack?
http://www.it-observer.com/news/6183/theoretical_hacking_it_managers/
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