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Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme

Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.

By Tim Greene | 03 February, 2012 06:30

Tags: stolen cookies, Session hijacking, security, Microsoft, anti-malware
IRS helps bust 105 people in massive identity theft crackdown

The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice teamed up for a coast-to-coast crackdown on identity thieves this week.

By Michael Cooney | 01 February, 2012 08:20

Tags: security, phishing, legal, IRS, Internal Revenue Service, identity theft, Identity fraud / theft, doj, cybersecurity, cybercrime, Compliance monitoring, audit, anti-malware
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing

Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing.

By Ellen Messmer | 31 January, 2012 00:36

Tags: security, paypal, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, DMARC.org, DMARC, Bank of America, AOL, anti-malware
Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec

It was another busy week for hactivists attacking the online targets of their ire. This time, hackers under the banner AntiSec appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. government's online security website, in protest against the much-railed-against legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as other bills regarding intellectual protection. Similarly, the group Anonymous is believed to be behind the distributed denial-of-service attack on Thursday that brought down the European Parliament's website in what is thought to be retaliation for European support for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site the week before. Anonymous also opposes a treaty being ratified in Europe now called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That deals with infringement of intellectual property rights.

By Ellen Messmer | 28 January, 2012 06:22

Tags: symantec, sourcefire, security, rsa, privacy day, OnGuardOnline.gov, megaupload, legal, Kelihos, European Parliament, cybercrime, AntiSec, anti-malware, anonymous
A vision for secure mobility management in the enterprise

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

By Sanjay Beri, vice president and general manager of the Junos Pulse business unit at Juniper Networks | 27 January, 2012 03:30

Tags: Wireless Management, wireless, vpn, tablet security, ssl vpn, smartphone security, smartphones, security, networking, Mobile device management, malware protection, enterprise tablets, enterprise smartphones, enterprise mobility, endpoint security, consumer electronics, byod, bring your own device, anti-malware

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