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From SECNAP Alerts:
Federal authorities have seized all the cash in a Swiss bank account held by a scareware mogul and scam artist who is charged with selling phony Symantec security software. The U.S. attorney’s office in New York filed for the forfeiture of $14.8 million stashed in the account by the man, who fled the [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Payroll firm ADP discloses data breach, says only one client affected, payroll data not involved
Payroll services company Automatic Data Processing Inc. has disclosed a data breach that it said apparently affects only one of its employer clients.
ADP said its security team discovered the intrusion during routine monitoring of its systems. The breach involved [...]

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Reuters – NEW YORK – Citigroup said that about 360,000 credit card customers were affected by last month’s hacking attack, or nearly double the number previously indicated by the bank.
In a statement “to our customers” that was released by the New York-based bank late Wednesday, Citigroup said “a total of 360,083 North America Citi-branded credit [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
A ‘phony antivirus’ scam is presenting itself as a near-perfect Microsoft Update popup with one notable exception—it appears only on machines using Firefox browsers.
According to the Naked Security blog, machines infected in drive-by downloads from compromised sites receive the scareware, which appears as an urgent Microsoft Update notification.
The clue that the updates are [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
June 15, 2011 – Microsoft is addressing many of these security issues in one fell swoop, with the newly released IE 9.01, its June Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. This update is available, as of yesterday, via Windows Update, according to a new post on the IE blog.
The security fixes in this [...]

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The data theft from International Monetary Fund computers—by hackers said to be linked to a foreign government—follows incidents against companies and governments that illustrate the growth of cyber-attacks as an espionage tool.
 
The IMF hack resulted in the loss of a “large quantity” of data, including documents and e-mails, according to a person familiar with the [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
The Anonymous hacker group said yesterday that it will target the Federal Reserve today, most likely with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to shut down the agency’s website.
In a YouTube video, the group calls for public protests (specifically, for viewers to “occupy a public space”) until Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Security researchers warn that scareware distributors are abusing SourceForge to host malicious pages that direct visitors to PDF exploits.
 
The campaign is the work of people behind the FakeRean family of malicious applications that pose as security products and trick users into buying useless licenses. “This malware also alters the infected system’s registry quite [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
The latest get rich quick scheme to hit the net? Hacking—and it actually pays.
While the global economy continues to sputter, the burgeoning cybercrime industry is flourishing—so much that these vast criminal organizations have begun posting job listings online to meet the growing demand for malware coders. Starting salaries range from $2,000 to as [...]

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Cost savings are usually important to small businesses even in the best of times. New technology solutions may be necessary for survival and growth, however—and they may not be as expensive as you think when you consider their return on investment (ROI). In this four-part series, we’ll explain what ROI is, help you understand indirect [...]

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