Legally Designed Cloud Computing Used for Malicious Purposes
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 12:00
Ed Skoudis, Founder of InGuardians (a security consultancy firm) says that hackers' groups are utilizing authentic 'cloud services' like 'Amazon' for cracking passwords and creating malware, as reported by V3 on March 4, 2010. Skoudis was speaking at the RSA 2010 conference in San Francisco.
Security researchers at McAfee stated on March 3, 2010 that software utilized for housing (or protecting) source code in corporations and which cyber criminals attacked against Google and other companies recently was poorly protected.
100 Organizations Likely Affected in January Google Attack
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:00
ISEC Partners Inc, a security research company, states that it is possible that the Chinese hackers, who attacked Google Inc. in January 2010, targeted over 100 organizations, much higher number than earlier predicted.
Filters and Antivirus Fail to Detect Malicious URLs
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:00
According to M86 Security (an IT security company), a large number of URL filters as well as antivirus software are not able to identify numerous malicious URLs, thus causing immense security risks to Web-surfers.
As per the security researchers, the last week of February 2010 has witnessed an increase in spam e-mails containing cautiously packed files infected with computer worm "Win32.Worm.Mabezat.J". Taking benefit of the unstable state of the world economy, cybercriminals are masquerading malware as genuine job offers.
