An ugly story: corporate nets under heavy attack
April 9, 2008
 
More from the floor at RSA:
AT&T Security Services vice president Stan Quintana and I had a stimulating breakfast chat about the need to, as Quintana puts it, “remediate Internet attacks in the cloud, before they can reach private networks.â€Â
ATT is using a technology, called Daytona, to do real time data streaming analysis to screen out malicious traffic in its IP trunk lines. He says Daytona allows AT&T to see distributed denial …More
Hacking for bragging rights gives way to hacking for ill-gotten profits
April 8, 2008
Book Excerpt
Chapter 1-Built For Speed
Pages 14- 21
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity
White Hats, Black Hats, Gray Hats
Mafiaboy
The year is 1999-the close of the twentieth century. “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” Harry Potter, and The Blair Witch Project dominate pop culture. John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a small plane to a Martha’s Vineyard …More
From the floor at RSA: a good-guy rootkit
April 8, 2008
I began this week doing a radio interview with WCCO-AM radio’s Suzie Jones, a top-rated talk radio talk show host in Minneapolis. Jones expressed astonishment when I described the many ways her PC can get botted, and her personal data put to fraudulent use.
Jones– or any other average person — would have apoplexy if they could hear what’s being discussed here at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention …More
Seeking to impress his girlfriend, Samy worm creator introduces huge new attack surface
April 8, 2008
Book Excerpt
Chapter 15
Pages 189-196
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity
Expediters
Silly Samy
In another sort of counterintuitive development, a vast new sector opened up where cybercriminals could roam, but it did not derive from the work of a brilliant, handsomely paid mercenary programmer. It blossomed thanks to a popularity-starved script kiddie from Los Angeles, nicknamed Samy, who …More
How hacker wannabes become profit-driven cyberthieves
April 8, 2008
Book Excerpt
Chapter 4
Pages 46- 49
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity
Self-anointed Avenger
Exploiters
Fall 2003, Edmonton
Socrates at the Beverly Motel, Edmonton
The oldest of three children in a stable, churchgoing family, Socrates recalls getting hooked on computers as a young kid. Introverted, soft-spoken, and respectful of his parents, Socrates taught …More
Criminal hacking at the grass roots level
April 8, 2008
Book Excerpt – The cost of doing business
Chapter 8
Pages 95-98
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity
March 2005, Edmonton
In the year and a half Yolanda and Jacques were a couple, they had lived in three different places. The apartment they currently occupied, a two-bedroom, third-floor walk-up in the middle-class Mill Woods neighborhood south of the city, …More
Microsoft pays $250,000 bounty to catch Netsky/Sasser author
April 8, 2008
Book Excerpt
Chapter 4
Pages 52- 59
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity 2008 by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, Union Square Press, Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN- 13: 978-1-4027-5695-5
Virus Wars
Subject: Hi
So began the Virus Wars of 2004. It would pit the new breed of for-profit virus writers against an idealistic German teenager. Collateral damage would reverberate around the globe: tens of millions of PCs compromised; hospitals, banks, and transportation …More
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