Sep 28
Friday, September 28th, 2007
On Monday, Security Fix looked at figures published by the Justice Department suggesting that the FBI had between 3 and 6 percent of its field agents dedicated to fighting cyber crime. On the surface, that number may seem low for an area the FBI rates as its No. 3 priority, behind only counter-terrorism and counter-espionage activities. Is that ratio appropriate? The only real way to know is to try to figure out how costly the cyber crime problem is in the first place. After all, how can we judge the proper level of resources to throw at a problem if we don’t have a good idea of just how bad cyber crime is? The problem, it seems, is that nobody really has any clue about how much cyber crime is costing U.S. businesses and consumers each year. The best guesses so far have been just that, and have ranged all
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Sep 27
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
$133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend
A Chinese virus writer sent to jail for four years earlier this week has being offered a well-paying job by one of his victims.…
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Sep 27
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Microsoft has released its third service pack for Office 2003 users. The company says the 117-megabyte bundle of security updates and program tweaks “represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003″ and that it “further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats.” Office 2003 users can download the update from this link. In addition to bundling a number of security fixes that have been previously released as separate Office 2003 updates, Service Pack 3 includes new security features, and it does away with several features that have opened avenues of attack or disclosed sensitive data. The service pack also includes stability updates, based on information gleaned from program crash dumps reported to Microsoft. Among the key new security features of SP3 is the addition of MOICE — also known as the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment. This clumsy sounding component is probably the most [...]
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