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China's Long List of Hacking Denials |
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Bretbrs writes "
China today denied allegations from two U.S. congressmen that the nation had cracked their way into congressional computer systems. In fact, says China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, China doesn't even have the skills to do so.
That's right. In this news story, the AP quoted Gang as saying Is there any evidence? ... Do we have such advanced technology? Even I don't believe it.
We're supposed to believe that a nuclear-armed superpower, with a growing space program, who has more Internet users than the U.S. doesn't have the people with the necessary skills or technology needed to give cyber-snooping a whirl?"
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Military, agencies to phish their workers |
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cj writes "By Wade-Hahn Chan
The military services and some agencies, including the Homeland Security Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, can now launch diagnostic phishing attacks against their own workers.
Phishing is a technique of tricking or coercing users into giving up personal information, revealing log-in names and passwords or visiting malware or virus-infected Web sites. The government-sanctioned attacks will be designed to test how well federal workers adhere to organization's e-mail security policies.
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New EU security breach proposal will pre-empt UK business security measures |
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webitpr writes "What: Decru is available to brief editors and analysts on what the new EU proposal for US-style data breach laws will mean for businesses in Europe and warns that they need to take security measures to protect the data that crosses the corporate perimeter sooner, rather than later.
Henk Spanjaard, MD, EMEA, Decru says: “It is difficult to listen to the news these days without hearing about another high-profile data security breach, whether it is the loss of a laptop or a back-up tape. In the last two weeks, Nationwide Building Society and the Metropolitan police have hit the headlines for major security breaches. But for all the organisations that are honest enough to admit such breaches there are hundreds that aren’t. The EU is now proposing US style data breach laws, which would demand European companies notify regulators and customers of any security breach of data held by the company."
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GAO report critical of federal banks' security |
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, D.C., Thursday issued an information security report critical of the Federal Reserve banks’ computer systems and networks that are used in selling Treasury notes at auctions.
In its report addressed to Federal Reserve System chairman Ben Bernanke, the GAO said the dozen Federal Reserve banks that serve as fiscal agents for the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Public Debt had failed to implement adequate security controls to support networks used in Treasury actions. The GAO, the federal government’s watchdog agency, said an in-depth review of these systems done between March and May of this year revealed several shortcomings the Fed should address, in the areas of user authentication, authorized access, and protection of sensitive data through encryption.
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The Courtroom: Washington State sues Secure Computer LLC over Spam and Spyware |
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In an Associated Press article found at Foxnews.com, Washington State is suing Secure Computer LLC and six people over spyware for distributing "Spyware Cleaner". Paul E. Burke and Gary T. Preston are two folks from Secure Computer LLC who are charged. They have made more than $100,000 since the Summer of 2004 pitching their spyware and spam to unsuspecting users.
State Attorney General Rob McKenna said Tuesday night that this is the first lawsuit filed under Washington state's new anti-spyware act, which the Legislature passed last year, and one of the first spyware lawsuits in the country.
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