Current Security Issues
Defense Department creates helpful online hub for social media
Although designed for the DoD community, the new Social Media Hub has helpful information for all Internet users. More...
Stuxnet malware targets SCADA systems; Siemens distributes fix
Siemens is distributing a tool that removes the Stuxnet malware threatening many vital components of our national infrastructure. More...
Watch Out–Facebook “OMG” Scam Thrives
The “OMG” (short for Oh, My God!) scam takes advantage of Facebook’s “like” feature to spread. More...
Cash For Keys Scam
Kimberly Miller of The Palm Beach Post highlights recent rash of scammers using 'cash for keys' ads to prey on unsuspecting renters. More...
Florida Division of Corporations Scam
Two entities target Florida businesses by appearing to conduct official business. More...
Microsoft releases 4 updates to fix 5 vulnerabilities
Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" for July was rather compact. There were four security updates that included fixes for five vulnerabilities. Of the four updates, three were rated "critical," Microsoft's highest threat ranking. More...
Stranded friend scam continues to swindle consumers out of thousands of dollars
The FBI and its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report that a not-so-new scam continues to trick consumers into handing over large sums of money to hackers. More...
How to stay safe while surfing a public hotspot
With Starbucks now offering free wi-fi to its customers, it's probably a good idea to refresh our memory on some of the best practices for using an unsecured, public wi-fi network. More...
Criminals Exploit New Windows XP Zero-Day Attack
A recently discovered Windows XP flaw results in more than 10,000 malware, trojan, and virus attacks. More...
Destination Hotels card-processing system hacked
Hackers have broken into the payment processing system of Destination Hotels & Resorts, where guests who recently stayed at 21 of the resort's 30 hotels may have been victimized by the scheme, which appears to have compromised point-of-sale systems. More...
Adobe pushes out emergency patch for Reader apps
Adobe Systems has pushed out an emergency update that patches at least 17 holes in its Reader and Acrobat applications, including two serious bugs that are being used by online criminals to install malware on end-users' machines. More...
Trouble installing iOS 4? This may help
Are you still having trouble trying to upgrade your iPhone or iPod Touch to Apple's new iOS 4? If so, here's a workaround that could help. More...
Mozilla patches 9 Firefox bugs, adds plug-in crash protection
Mozilla has patched 9 Firefox vulnerabilities and has included crash protection for faulty plug-ins. More...
Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job
Apple recently patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, but the first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer iPad, may be vulnerable to some or all of the 65 bugs. More...
FDLE Recognizes June as National Internet Safety Month
FDLE joins the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and SecureFlorida.org in recognizing June as National Internet Safety Month. More...
Microsoft Issues 10 Security Updates
Microsoft rolls out ten security updates this month; three critical and seven important. More...
June is National Internet Safety Month; Educate Yourself and Your Kids
School is out and you have more time with your kids--use this opportunity to teach them about Internet safety. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has tips and tools to help you. More...
Botnets Target Websites With 'Posers'
Kelly Jackson Higgins of DarkReading explains that botnets are becoming better at fooling websites by appearing human to create fake accounts on legitimate websites. More...
Facebook Rolls Out Simplified Privacy Controls
Today Facebook began a roll out of new simplified privacy controls. More...
UPDATE: Discovery of a New Type of Phishing Attack
Aza Raskin, Creative Lead for Mozilla Firefox, published an example of a new tab based phishing attack, also known as tabnabbing or tabjacking. More...
Facebook Offers New Security Feature
Facebook offers a new security feature designed to combat account hijacking. More...
Microsoft's May Patch Offers Two Updates
May's patch Tuesday offers two critical security bulletins. More...
New Trojan horse scam involving fake Windows 7 compatibility checker
Scam emails are being sent out which offer users the ability to have their PC scanned to determine if it can run Windows 7 with no problem. More...
Fake Anti-Virus Programs A Growing Threat
A recent Google study found that fake anti-virus programs account for 15% of all malicious software. More...
Microsoft Re-releases Security Update MS10-025 - CRITICAL
MS10-250 was revised today to offer the rereleased security update for Windows Media Services running on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4. Microsoft recommends that customers running the affected software apply the rereleased security update immediately. More...
Spammers hit Gmail accounts
Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages. More...
Microsoft Issues Security Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
April's list of security updates includes 5 Critical, 5 Important, and 1 Moderate More...
Microsoft patches 10 critical IE bugs
Microsoft issued an emergency security update on Tuesday to plug 10 holes in Internet Explorer, including a critical vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting for weeks. More...
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.3
Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the latest update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The update is recommended for all users of Snow Leopard, and brings a number of fixes, improvements, and security patches. More...
Security companies warn of increase in new IE attack
Criminals are increasing their use of an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim's computers. More...
Critical Firefox bug fixed one month after disclosure
The Firefox 3.6.2 update fixes a critical bug that could be exploited to crash a victim's browser and execute arbitrary code on his/her system. More...
New password-stealing virus targets Facebook
Hackers have targeted Facebook's estimated 400 million users with spam e-mail in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information. More...
Small Businesses targeted by Zeus Botnet
There has been a growing trend of fraudulent wire transfers from small businesses and government entities to overseas locations. More...
Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari
Apple Inc. patched 16 vulnerabilities in Safari, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack a machine. More...
Hackers exploit latest IE zero-day with drive-by attacks
Hackers are exploiting the just-disclosed unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE) to launch drive-by attacks from malicious Web sites. More...
Microsoft fixes eight flaws with its March update
The eight bugs patched this month are far from the near-record 26 that Microsoft fixed last month when it delivered 13 security bulletins. Both of this month's bulletins are ranked "important," the second-highest rating in Microsoft's four-step severity scoring system, even though the company acknowledged that the eight vulnerabilities could be used to completely compromise a Windows PC. More...
Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP
Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE). More...
Sea World killer whale attack video leads to malware
News of the Sea World trainer's tragedy sped quickly around the world, and now sick cybercriminals are exploiting the story of 40-year-old Brancheau's death for their own commerical gain. More...
Free VirusTotal Uploader Links to 40 Antivirus Programs
The VirusTotal.com Web site offers a free but invaluable security service. It will scan any Web download, e-mail attachment or other file you send it with 40-odd different antivirus scanners to let you know whether it's safe for your computer. More...
Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers Inside Gas Station Pumps
Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps -- in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump -- in a recent wave of attacks that demonstrate a more sophisticated, insidious method of stealing money from unsuspecting victims filling up their gas tanks. More...
Chatroulette: red-hot and controversial
The social networking Web site and latest Internet craze randomly and repeatedly connects users to strangers from all over the world, via their webcams. But some child advocates are worried that those strangers could include predators talking to kids. More...
Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts
At issue is a feature that compiles a list of the Gmail contacts who users most frequently e-mail or chat with. Buzz automatically starts following these people and makes the list public, meaning strangers can see who Buzz users have been in contact with. More...
Google Buzz and your privacy
Google Buzz is Google's answer to two popular social networking tools -- Facebook and Twitter. Before you try it out, you may want to be aware of an important privacy issue. More...
Patch Tuesday brings 13 fixes
This month, Microsoft has issued 13 Security Bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. Five of the vulnerabilities are rated "Critical," seven are marked as "Important," and the last one is classified as "Moderate." All of the critical vulnerabilities earned their rating through a remote code execution impact, meaning a hacker could potentially gain control of an infected machine. More...
Google to jump on the social networking bandwagon
This would make Google the latest consumer Internet company to try to graft social-networking features into online communications services. More...
Apple patches critical flaws in iPhone, iPod Touch
Apple patched five vulnerabilities in the iPhone's operating system, including one in a password-locking feature that has required attention before. More...
Online Scammers Target Tax Payers
Tax scams come around at this time every year through your e-mail and with just the click of a mouse, scammers can take away thousands of dollars out of your bank account. More...
Johnny Depp Death Rumour Spreads Malware
Hackers have taken advantage of a fast-spreading Internet hoax to spread their own malware on sites claiming to contain video footage of Johnny Depp's supposed car crash. More...
Data breaches from malicious attacks doubled last year
Data breaches at U.S. companies attributed to malicious attacks and botnets doubled from 2008 to 2009 and cost substantially more than breaches caused by human negligence or system glitches. More...
Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
Analysis of 32 million breached passwords shows the majority are still very simple to crack, with "123456" and "12345" being the two most popular. More...
Microsoft issues emergency IE patch January 21st
Microsoft will release its emergency patch for Internet Explorer (IE) on Thursday, January 21st. More...
Cyber hacker hits Paula Dockery's campaign site
The campaign of Sen. Paula Dockery, a Lakeland Republican running for government on a clean-up-government platform, was hit with a sophisticated computer hack this week that clogged her website. More...
Critical Shockwave Player vulnerabilities patched
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.2.602 and earlier versions, on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. More...
IE6 attack code used to hack Google now public
The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public, and could possibly be modified to work on more recent versions of the browser. More...
FBI Warns of Scams Involving Haitian Relief
Once again the scammers are taking advantage of people's desire to help disaster victims. Read the FBI guidelines before you donate. More...
First Patch Tuesday of 2010
In the first Patch Tuesday of 2010, Microsoft releases a single critical security update for Windows users. More...
Large-scale attacks exploit Adobe .pdf bug; patch slated for next week
A week before Adobe is scheduled to patch a critical vulnerability in its popular PDF software, hackers are actively exploiting the bug with both targeted and large-scale attacks. More...
Y2.01K bug trips up symantec: error causes red faces
Symantec's Endpoint Protection Manager has been hit by an embarassing date bug, and has not been able to accept updates dated since then. More...
White House appoints cybersecurity advisor
Six months after President Obama pledged to appoint a cybersecurity advisor, the White House announced the appointment of former eBay Chief Security Strategist Howard Schmidt to the post. More...
Facebook users: be careful of the new "recommended" security settings!
Facebook users are being told about new security changes that give us "more control" over our information. However, their recommended privacy settings leave much to be desired. More...
Microsoft patches 12 bugs in December's "Patch Tuesday"
Microsoft patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer (IE), including three critical bugs in its newest browser, IE8. More...
Judge okays $675K fine in P2P suit; also criticizes file-sharing lawsuits
Federal Judge Nancy Gertner has signed off on a jury's damages award of $675,000 for illegal file sharing; defendant Joel Tenanbaum illegally downloaded and shared 30 songs. More...
Apple issues security updates for Mac OS X
Apple pushed an update for Leopard and Snow Leopard systems that plugs a large number of security holes in Apple's version of Java. More...
Zbot attack remains biggest e-mail threat
A massive spam campaign that poses as a message from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asking people to register for H1N1 vaccinations remains a big problem. More...
Apple issues week's second patch set, fixes 7 Safari flaws
Apple issued its second security update in three days, patching seven vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that the company fixed two months ago for most Mac users. More...
Microsoft plugs 15 holes in Windows, Office
Microsoft released software updates to fix at least 15 security flaws in Windows, Windows Server, and Microsoft Office. Of the 6 security bulletins that fix the 15 flaws, three were tagged "critical" by Microsoft, while the remaining 12 were labeled as "important," the next-lowest rating in the company's four-step severity scoring system. More...
First iPhone worm leaves users "Rickrolled"
The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia, but only phones that are "jailbroken." More...
FBI: Online banking attacks reach the $100 million mark
FBI officials say a mix of banking Trojans and phishing attacks has plagued victims - mainly public institutions and small and midsize businesses - to the tune of $100 million in attempted losses as of October. More...
Windows Autorun feature helps malware soar
A new report by Microsoft shows that the two most prevalent threats to Windows PCs in the first half of 2009 were malicious programs that have been aided mightily in their spread by a decision by Microsoft to allow the contents of removable media -- such as USB thumb drives -- to load automatically when inserted into Windows machines. More...
Mozilla fixes 16 flaws with Firefox 3.5.4
Mozilla today patched 16 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 11 of them critical, as it updated the open-source browser to version 3.5.4. More...
IE, Chrome, Safari duped by bogus PayPal SSL certificate
A hacker has created a counterfeit security certificate that tricks Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari for Windows, and Google Chrome into thinking a bogus PayPal payment page is the real thing. Mozilla Firefox is not vulnerable to this exploit. More...
Malware Posing as Postal Tracking E-Mail
A new Trojan is entering e-mail inboxes by posing as a purchase receipt of an online order. More...
Microsoft fixes 34 flaws in its Patch Tuesday delivery
Microsoft delivered a record 13 security updates that patched 34 vulnerabilities in every version of Windows. More...
Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC. More...
FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday charged almost 100 people in Operation Phish Phry, the largest cyber fraud phishing case to date. More...
IRS scam now world's biggest e-mail virus problem
The most prominent spam-delivered virus in the world right now, the IRS scam email accounts for about 10% of the spam email that's currently making the rounds in cyberspace. More...
Twitter Hit by New Phishing Attack
Phishers are targeting Twitter users in a new attack involving direct messages sent to Twitter users containing a link to a site requesting user log-ins. More...
UNC data breach exposes 163,000 social security numbers
The University of North Carolina recently began notifying about 163,000 women of the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data. More...
New phishing attack chats up victims
Many people are now aware of phishing attacks, so criminals have stepped up their scams by adding fake live-chat support windows to their websites to make them seem more real. More...
Apple patches its different operating systems
Apple issued Snow Leopard's first security update. In a separate upgrade, Apple patched 33 vulnerabilities in 2007's Leopard, and about half as many in the even older Tiger. More...
Mozilla patches 10 Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities
Mozilla patched 10 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.5, all but one ranked critical. It also delivered the first update that automatically checks for outdated versions of the popular Flash Player plug-in. More...
It's Patch Tuesday - September 2009
Microsoft issues five security bulletins, all of which are rated "critical." More...
New attack cracks WPA Wi-Fi encryption in a minute
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. More...
Miami man indicted for massive credit hack
A 28-year-old Miami man was indicted Monday for the largest credit and debit card theft ever prosecuted in the U.S., with data from more than 130 million credit and debit cards stolen. More...
Apple patches 6 Safari security vulnerabilities
Apple plugged six security holes, four of them critical, in its Mac and Windows Web browser. More...
Microsoft delivers nine security updates
Microsoft released nine August 2009 security patches, five of them Critical and all but one affecting Windows. More...
Fake FEMA email targeting government employees
The US-CERT has identified a "spear fishing" attack targeting government employees, that pretends to come from FEMA. More...
Apple patches 18 Mac vulnerabilities
Apple has recently patched 18 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. More...
Fake Internet postcards carrying links to a virus
Fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes worldwide are carrying links to the virus known as Zeus Bot. More...
Mozilla patches three Firefox bugs
Mozilla has patched Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0 to resolve three security vulnerabilities, including a pair unveiled last week at Black Hat, and a third Mozilla itself revealed last month. More...
Adobe patches 12 Flash bugs
Adobe patched 12 vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including three it inherited from faulty Microsoft development code and one that hackers have been exploiting for at least a week. More...
Adobe confirms Flash zero-day bug in PDF docs
Adobe is investigating a critical vulnerability in its Flash format that is currently being exploited by hackers using malicious PDF documents. More...
Spammers cashing in on Twitter, Iran, new iPhone
As use of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook has grown, so has their abuse. Spammers have been taking advantage of hot stories in the news, and in the past day they've been flooding Twitter with phoney messages about Iran and the latest iPhone 3.0 operating system. More...
Microsoft June patches are bustin' out all over
Of the 10 updates announced for June 2009, six are marked critical, three are marked important, and the last is listed as moderate. More...
Web's Most Dangerous Keyword Searches
According to McAfee’s recently released report “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms,“ the most dangerous keyword to search for is "screensavers." More...
Apple has huge security update for Mac OS X
Apple patched 67 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. Tuesday's update was the largest for Apple since March 2008. More...
Phishers hit Facebook with scam messages
Facebook users were hit with a phishing attack that tried to steal names and passwords from users of the popular social network. More...
Mass Fake Delta Airlines Ticket Confirmation Email Message
Beware of a scam involving the spread of email messages disguised as coming from Delta Airlines. More...
Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Adobe Systems has updated its Flash software to eliminate five flaws affecting Windows, OS X and Linux systems. More...
Attackers exploit unpatched Excel vulnerability
For the second time in the past five days, security researchers are warning that hackers are exploiting a critical unpatched vulnerability in widely-used software. More...
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