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Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman	Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active.
BusinessWeek February 25, 2010	Breaching the Walls Dealing with cyber-attacks costs companies and governments billions of dollars a year and threatens national and economic security. Here are some recent incidents.
InternetNews March 3, 2010	Mariposa Hackers Busted in Giant Botnet Scam Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation.
InternetNews August 18, 2010	Facebook Kit Makes Hacking Logins Easy Security software vendor BitDefender says it's found a new malware kit that lets hackers easily access logins and passwords for Facebook and other unsecured credentials.
InternetNews February 9, 2010	McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
InternetNews August 16, 2010	Symantec Uncovers Another Sneaky Spam Scam Latest Trojan conceals itself in innocent-looking attachments designed to get you or someone you know to open up the offending file.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Facebook Tipped Off The U.S. Government To Iranian Hackers State Department officials were tipped off by Facebook's new notifications when Iranian hackers compromised their Facebook accounts.
InternetNews March 4, 2010	Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers.
InternetNews September 30, 2010	FBI Busts International Cybercrime Syndicate After a year-long investigation, the FBI and local law enforcement charges 37 hackers with using Zeus Trojan to steal more than $3 million from U.S. banks.
InternetNews December 11, 2009	University Student Data Exposed in Server Breach More than nine years worth of student data was exposed last month when hackers managed to access the admissions server at Eastern Illinois University.
InternetNews February 4, 2010	Firewall Mishap Puts Iowa Workers' Data at Risk More than 80,000 people affiliated with the Hawkeye State's casino and racing industry were victimized by a cyber attack that most likely originated in China.
InternetNews May 20, 2010	South America Emerges As Cybercrime Hotspot China gets all the bad press but it turns out that Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and a bunch of South American countries are actually the least discriminating when it comes to filtering malware.
InternetNews April 28, 2010	Hackers Drawn to Cheap, Simplistic Malware Kits Latest security vendor study finds that do-it-yourself malware kits are popping up everywhere online and bringing even more amateur hackers into the fold.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner	The New Red Menace Russian and eastern European hackers get all the glory these days, but their efforts to disrupt American financial services are a nuisance when compared to the nation-state threat that China's cyber army, and its rogue hackers, may pose.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	Two-Headed Trojan Targets Online Banks New Trojan uses "two-pronged payload" to swipe log-in information, steal electronic funds.
InternetNews March 25, 2010	Symantec: China Is Tops in Targeted Malware Symantec's latest report pinpoints China as the leading source of malware tailored to hoodwink execs in specific industries.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
InternetNews April 20, 2010	Hackers Breached Google's Password Hub: Report New report cites source close to investigation claiming that hackers in China were able to compromise the password service that acts as gateway to Google's Web products and services.
Inc. March 2007	What We're Worrying About These days, computer security threats are coming from all directions. Here's what is keeping entrepreneurs up at night, according to a recent survey by the research firm Forrester.
InternetNews October 17, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Adobe Sites Hit by Malware Just weeks after a BusinessWeek Web site was hit by an SQL injection attack, comes news that Adobe has had to deal with two of its Web sites compromised the same way.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Intel Confirms Details of Cyber Attack In regulatory filing, Intel outlines "sometimes successful" attacks that infiltrated the company's systems around the same time as the massive attack on Google and other companies.
InternetNews November 10, 2009	University Web Site Snafu Exposes Student SSNs Chaminade University accidentally posted thousands of students' personal data on its Web site.
InternetNews December 13, 2010	Data Breach Exposes Wisconsin Students' Data The University of Wisconsin became the latest U.S. college to endure a major data breach this year, putting the personal information of 60,000-plus former students and staff members at risk.
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Fast Company Michael Grothaus	For First Time, Cyber Attack Causes Widespread Electricity Blackout The first known cyber attack to cause widespread public blackouts has occurred in Ukraine, it is believed.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Tim Beyers	This Is Google's Nightmare Scenario A massive cyberattack scars 75,000 systems
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 David Kushner	Making Computer Crime Sexy A look at cyber crime in the movies and real life.
National Defense December 2011 Stew Magnuson	Defense Department Partners With Industry To Stem Staggering Cybertheft Losses The amount of intellectual property hackers are stealing from U.S. companies and sending to China is said to be staggering. The private sector's crown jewels are being moved off nominally secure networks and transmitted to the Asian nation every day: usually from 9 to 5 -- Beijing time.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
Investment Advisor June 2008 Irace & Mehta	Security in a New Age How to protect your firm from 21st century online criminals
Bank Systems & Technology October 16, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Trojan Planted in Fake E-mail from IT Dept. Designed to Steal Info From Businesses Trusteer issues a warning to IT departments to be aware of a new phishing attack aimed at enterprises and their confidential information.
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Insurance & Technology May 14, 2005 Michael Cohn	7 Myths About Network Security While hacker tools are growing more sophisticated and automated, many organizations have a false sense of security about their own data and networks. Take a look at these security myths to see if your data is as secure as you think it is.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	AP Report: U.S. Power Grid Subject To Repeated Foreign Hacks The U.S. power grid is subject to being hacked from abroad, and foreign hackers have gained remote access to American power operations about a dozen times over the last decade.
Information Today February 4, 2013 Paula J. Hane	A Cyber War Is Brewing A cyberwar has been brewing and although you might view this battle as governments going head to head in a shadow fight, experts say the battleground is shifting from government entities to the private sector, to civilian targets that provide many essential services to U.S. citizens.
Insurance & Technology November 5, 2008 Prasad Balakrishnan	Cyber Attacks Can Come in Many Shapes and Sizes Cyber threats aimed at insurance companies are constantly evolving and growing. Unfortunately the pace of adoption of cyber protection mechanisms has not caught up.
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Eileen Travers	The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back.
InternetNews October 6, 2010	Zeus Phishing Scam Targets iTunes Users In a scam likely stemming from Eastern Europe, hackers are targeting visitors to Apple's iTunes music store with an unsolicited email directing them to sites carrying the Zeus Trojan malware.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
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Popular Mechanics April 17, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Hack Attack on Tibet Groups Could Hint at China's Anti-U.S. Tactic As Buddhist monks in exile mourn fellow Tibetans killed in the recent conflict with China, U.S.-based nonprofit organizations are facing spam attacks, fake smear campaigns and other threats to digital privacy.