Archive: Security: 2009
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July, 2009
- 07/02: New Tech to Quash Drive by Downloads, XSS Attacks
- 07/01: Harry Potter Movie Targeted by Hackers
June, 2009
- 06/29: Malware Peddlers Target Michael Jackson Mourners
- 06/25: Next-Gen Cell Spying: Like Straight out of a Movie
- 06/16: Safe Calculator: Encrypts Data, Acts like MS Calc
- 06/16: China Content Filtering Software Puts PCs At Risk
- 06/11: Windows XP-Based ATMs Targeted by Hackers
- 06/08: RIM Admits BlackBerry Security Hole, Patch Available
- 06/08: Credit Card Fraud: Most Common Form of ID Theft
- 06/05: Next Microsoft Patch Tuesday: This Year's Biggest
- 06/01: Gumbler Virus Infects Google Search, Deadliest Yet
May, 2009
- 05/29: Click Carefully: New DirectX Exploit in the Wild
- 05/27: New Netbook Ships, Preloaded with Factory Malware
- 05/25: Alive and Well: Conficker Infecting 50k PCs Daily
- 05/20: Trojan Alert: Windows 7 RC1, FIFA World Cup Virus
- 05/20: MS IIS6 Virus Compromises Password-Protected Files
- 05/20: FAA's Air Traffic Control Apps Highly Vulnerable
- 05/12: Hackers Breach 160k Med Records at UC Berkeley
- 05/07: US Med Data Held Hostage by Hackers; Ransom: $10M
- 05/06: Hackers 'Tap In' to Improve Radio Frequency (RFID) Systems
- 05/04: New Malware Plays On Global 'Swine Flu' Fears
April, 2009
- 04/29: McAfee '911' Helps Victims Recover from Online Attacks
- 04/28: Hospital Equipment Infected with Conficker
- 04/27: Cybercriminals Buy Captcha-Codes for Pennies
- 04/24: Win7: Security Hole 'Unfixable', Experts Say
- 04/22: Homeland Security Seeks Ethical Hackers to Defend US
- 04/17: Study: 91% of Data Breaches are Organized Crime
- 04/17: Annual Spam Emissions Could Power 3.1M Homes
- 04/14: Teen Creates Twitter Worm 'Out of Boredom'
- 04/13: Conficker Worm Crashes University of Utah
- 04/10: Conficker E Awakens: Uses Mystery Payload, Waledac
- 04/03: Conficker Stats: Vietnam Worst, Worm Still Dormant
- 04/03: Conficker Alive and Well Post April 1st Deadline
- 04/01: New iPhone App Reduces ID Theft by Unique Password
- 04/01: Conficker Detection Breakthrough From Germany
March, 2009
- 03/31: Homeland Security Releases Conficker-Detection Tool
- 03/30: Chinese Cyberspace Espionage Affects 103 Nations
- 03/30: China Implicated Over Conficker Virus
- 03/27: New Botnet Worm 'Psyb0t' Targets Modems, Routers
- 03/26: Conficker Virus: Next Update, Attack April 1st
- 03/20: Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Released: Imperfect, but Improved
- 03/18: Social Search Reveals 700 Comcast Customer Logins
- 03/13: New Koobface Virus Messages Malware to Friends
- 03/12: ID Theft on Rise due to Economic Slump, Report Suggests
- 03/11: Third Conficker Worm Wields: Most Resilient Yet
- 03/11: MS Fixes 8 Flaws, Critical Excel Flaw Still Looms
- 03/11: EU Police To Receive Corporate Hacker Training
- 03/09: eBay Hackers Exploit IE, Firefox Vulnerabilities
- 03/06: Microsoft to Patch Critical Flaw, Still no Excel Fix
- 03/06: Conficker Time Bomb Targets Southwest Airlines, Others This ...
- 03/04: Justifying Mass Surveillance: A Fallacious Myth
- 03/02: Obama Stimulus Pours Millions into Cyber Security
February, 2009
- 02/25: New Conficker B++ Worm Discovered, More Stealth
- 02/25: MS Excel Users Susceptible to New Vulnerability
- 02/24: Software Glitch Exposes 600 Student Accounts Online
- 02/24: MS Browser Prototype Promises Greater Security
- 02/20: Can Facebook be Trusted in Wake of TOS Debacle?
- 02/16: New Malware 'Virux' Spreading Rampant in US
- 02/13: Identity Theft Highest Since 2004, Report Suggests
- 02/12: Warnings Issued Over Britain's Surveillance Techniques
- 02/10: Ethical Hacker Proves RFID Tags Remain Vulnerable to ' ...
- 02/10: Antivirus Company Admits Site Hacked, Exposed for 11 Days
- 02/09: HP Printers Susceptible to Online Attack
- 02/06: Windows 7 UAC A Security Risk, Microsoft Concedes
- 02/05: Microsoft Ambivalent About Advertising, Privacy
- 02/04: MS Participates in Data Privacy Day, Surveys Risks
- 02/02: Secret Military Files Found On Used MP3 Player
- 02/02: Botnet Threatens to Sour Valentine's Day
January, 2009
- 01/30: Spam to Reach All-Time High in 2009
- 01/30: IE8 has Zero Impact on ClickJacking, Experts Say
- 01/29: Virus Infects Second Pirated Mac App
- 01/29: Rising Malware Threats reported by AVG and F-Secure
- 01/28: Largest Credit Breach Ever Reported Inauguration Day
- 01/23: Nasty Trojan Hidden in Pirated Apple App
- 01/20: 9M PCs infected with New Conficker Worm
- 01/09: SSL Websites Not Secure Enough, say Researchers



