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INVISUS Direct Monthly Cyber Crime Activity Report
By admin | August 5, 2008
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This month the INVISUS Direct Cyber Crime Activity Report is full of cyber criminal activity from across the globe, plus a round up of identity theft and security related news.
Plumas Lake, Calf.
A man bilked $50K (a few pennies at a time) from online brokerage companies E-Trade & Schwab brokerage houses. He apparently exploited a backdoor in a procedure that both brokerage houses use.
Houston, Tx.
A former U.S. Navy contractor admitted he sold confidential information on 17,000 U.S. Marines to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign official.
San Francisco, Calf.
An apparently inadvertent DoS attack knocked thw website of San Fransisco-based Revision3 offline for three days, preventing users from downloading or watching the internet television shows produced by the network.
Connecticut.
the Bank of New York Mellon lost a tape containing some 4.5 million customer records. The tape was last seen in transit by a records management firm, Archive Systems.The bank plans to offer one year of free credit monitoring to victims.
Washington D.C.
The National Security Agency’s website and its mail services went down for several hours. Researchers speculated the cause was several basic mistakes in the configuration of its DNS systems.
Belgium
Several NATO allies signed an agreement that will fund a research center to defend against cyberattacks. The center, to be located in Estonia, will open next year.
Spain
Authorities here rounded up a group of young hackers accused of targeting a number of U.S. and foreign government websites. The five individuals, known as the D.O.M. Team, were charged with compromising roughly 21,000 web pages.
Zimbabwe
Hackers brought down the website of the state-owned newspaper, The Herald, for three days in May. It’s likely the site was attacked because the paper serves as the voice of the higly critized ZANU-PF ruling party.
Russia
Hackers knocked sites that provide nuclear radiation information offline while fake reports of radioactivity emissions were posted to forums. Officials beleive the acts were coordinated by individuals opposed to the nation’s nuclear power industry.
China
Most cyberattacks against South Korea originated in nearby China, according to a new study presented by Lee-Hong-sup, chairman of the Koria Institute of Information Security and Crytography. The Korean governement was urged to heighten its security defenses.
(This information was provided by SC Magazine)
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