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The World Cup may be done and dusted, but the Spampionship continues! Learn more: - http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/pc-security-howto-fight-spam-efficiently/ - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/cyber-security-is-easy-get-the-right-reflexes/ 
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Salaries for that kind of talent are much higher in the private sector The Pentagon plans to triple its cybersecurity staff by 2016, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced recently. A few days later, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Charles Gilgen said at a conference on cybercrime that his agency’s cyber division plans to hire 1,000 agents and 1,000 analysts in the coming year. Just those two agencies are looking for 6,000 people with cybersecurity skills in the next two years. That’s a very tall order. A look at one way the government has tried to build and recruit such talent—offering university scholarships—shows why.
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The Pentagon plans to triple its cybersecurity staff by 2016, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced recently. A few days later, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Charles Gilgen said at a conference on cybercrime that his agency’s cyber division plans to hire 1,000 agents and 1,000 analysts in the coming year. Just those two agencies are looking for 6,000 people with cybersecurity skills in the next two years. That’s a very tall order. A look at one way the government has tried to build and recruit such talent—offering university scholarships—shows why.
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Huge infographic: Which countries are most infected? Which malware spreads most? What are top malware categories? (It's not viruses!) What are the biggest botnets?
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Une cyber-menace agissant depuis 2007 vient d'être mise en lumière par Kaspersky : nommée The Mask, ou Careto, cette dernière cible les informations sécurisées des administrations et autres entreprises. [...]
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Everything from passwords being left around on desks to computers missing critical patches to sensitive data being stored on unencrypted laptops. Believe it or not - that's just the 'tame' stuff. I...
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The number of infected computers in the U.S. outpaced, by far, infections in other countries, a security firm found.
Coming in second, and far behind the U.S. in its number of infections, was Japan, where 206,000 computers were compromised by banking trojans.
The U.K. and Canada followed next, accounting for 178,000 and 118,000 infections, respectively, last year.
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BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
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It's time for the Statistics related to the Cyber Attacks reported in the July 2013 Timelines (Part I and Part II). You will find a (hopefully) welcome novelty from this month: as a matter of fact ...
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Laut Microsoft steht Rumänien an der Spitze Europas, soweit es infizierte Rechner betrifft. Die größte Dichte an Malware-Sites weist Luxemburg auf. Deutschland bewegt sich im Mittelfeld der europäischen Staaten.
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That hurts!!! What I say since ages and NOT getting taken for serious about it is NOW official!
Wer den Schaden hat braucht für den Spott nicht zu sorgen :( & ;)
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That hurts!!! What I say since ages and NOT getting taken for serious about it is NOW official!
Wer den Schaden hat braucht für den Spott nicht zu sorgen :( & ;)
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Secunia Country Reports tell the state of security among PC users by country. Read about vulnerabilities in software like Chrome, Java and Flash in your country Learn more: - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/update-your-third-party-applications/ - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/cyber-security-is-easy-get-the-right-reflexes/
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The official Microsoft Security Blog provides in-depth discussion of security, cybersecurity and technology trends affecting trust in computing, as well as timely security news, trends, and practical security guidance. Each week you’ll hear from Microsoft security experts who share insights and report on research and our collaborative work internally and with industry and governments around the world to build more secure software and services; to advance the IT ecosystem; and collective efforts to build a safer, more trusted Internet for everyone.
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Eine Online-Spionageoperation mit dem Namen Careto (Maske) bespitzelt seit Jahren Behörden, Botschaften, Energieunternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen. Neben Windows werden auch Linux- und Mac-Systeme mit spezieller Malware angegriffen.
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Kaspersky's security research team today revealed "one of the most advanced" cyber-espionage malware threats "The Mask" (aka Careto). Victims including government institutions, private equity firms and high-profile activists are exploited. ===> The researchers said, "At the moment, all known Careto command and control servers are offline. The campaign was active [from 2007] until January 2014, but during our investigations the C&C servers were shut down." <=== [GM] Thus meaning: wait and watch what is coming NEXT!
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[GM] Thus meaning: wait and watch what is coming NEXT!
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Unlike conventional sporting events such as the Superbowl, the Six Nations or the Bundesliga, the SPAMPIONSHIP is one title that no team wants to win.
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CryptoLocker, the ransomware menace that has been snowballing in profile of late, is stepping up its game even further.
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SophosLabs announces the result of its Spampionship, a study that shows which countries send the most amount of spam.
There's an important lesson to be learned here: inaction in the face of spam threats only helps spammers make money. ===> To be part of the solution to this problem, you have to clean up the spambot malware on your own computer first. <===
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===> To be part of the solution to this problem, you have to clean up the spambot malware on your own computer first. <===
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===> To be part of the solution to this problem, you have to clean up the spambot malware on your own computer first. <===
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Retailers suffer twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries, according to Imperva. Additionally, these attacks were more intens...
The US is the number one source of web attacks: The majority of requests and attackers originated in the United States, Western European countries, China and Brazil.
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The US is the number one source of web attacks: The majority of requests and attackers originated in the United States, Western European countries, China and Brazil.
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The US is the number one source of web attacks: The majority of requests and attackers originated in the United States, Western European countries, China and Brazil.
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- http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/pc-security-howto-fight-spam-efficiently/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/cyber-security-is-easy-get-the-right-reflexes/