read it ...!! :) Here are a few more examples and trends of the security compromises that are taking place today: • Both Ameritrade and E-Trade Financial, two of the top five online brokerage services, confirmed that millions of dollars had been lost to (or stolen by) hacker attacks on their systems in the third quarter of 2006. Investigations by the SEC, FBI, and Secret Service have been initiated as a result. • Apple computers, which had been relatively untargeted by hackers due to their smaller market share, are becoming the focus of more attacks. Identified vulnerabilities in the MAC OS X increased by almost 400 percent from 2004 to 2006, but still make up only a small percentage of the total of known vulnerabilities. In another product line, Apple reported that some of their iPods shipped in late 2006 were infected with the RavMonE.exe virus. The virus wasthought to have been introduced into the production line through another company that builds the iPods for Apple. • In December 2006, a 26-year-old Romanian man was indicted by U.S. courts on nine counts of computer intrusion and one count of conspiracy regarding breaking into more than 150 U.S. government computer systems at the Jet Propulsion Labs, the Goddard Space Flight Center, Sandia National Laboratories, and the U.S. Naval Observatory. The intrusion cost the U.S. government nearly $150 million in damages. The accused faces up to 54 years in prison if convicted on all counts. • In Symantec’s “Internet Security Threat Report, Volume X,” released September 2006, they reported the detection of over 150,000 new, unique phishing messages over a six-month period from January 2006 through June 2006, up 81 percent over the same reporting period from the previous year. Symantec detected an average of 6,110 denial-of-service (DoS) attacks per day, the United States being the most prevalent target of attacks (54 percent), and the most prolific source of attacks (37 percent) worldwide. Networks in China, and specifically Beijing, are identified as being the most bot-infected and compromised on the planet. • On September 25, 2007, hackers posted names, credit card numbers, as well as Card Verification Value (CVV) Codes and addresses of eBay customers on a forum that was specifically created for fraud prevention by the auction site. The information was available for more than an hour to anyone that visited the forum before it was taken down. • A security breach at Pfizer on September 4, 2007, may have publicly exposed the names, social security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, credit card information, signatures, bank account numbers, and other personal information of 34,000 employees. The breach occurred in 2006 but was not noticed by the company until July 10, 2007. • On August 23, 2007, the names, addresses, and phone numbers of around 1.6 million job seekers were stolen from Monster. • On February 8, 2007, Consumeraffairs reported that identity theft had topped the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) complaint list for the seventh year in a row. Identity theft complaints accounted for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints that were received by the FTC in the period between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2006. • Privacyrights.org has reported that the total number of records containing sensitive information that have been involved in security breaches from January 10, 2005, to September 28, 2007 numbers 166,844,653. • Clay High School in Oregon, Ohio, reported on January 25, 2007, that staff and student information had been obtained through a security breach by a former student. The data had been copied to an iPod and included names, social security numbers, birth dates, phone numbers, and addresses.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:58:33 +0000
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