Around The Horn vol.1,13

Alerts

5:07 AM (3 hours ago)
Targeted social engineering, (Sun, Jan 18th)

from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green
Heres a somewhat dated and simplified graph of the three main attack modus operandiquo ...(more)...

Security News

Jan 17, 2009 (21 hours ago)
Don’t worry, Obama did not refuse to be a president!

from McAfee Avert Labs by Francois Paget
In less than four days the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama will make headlines. At McAfee, we expect cybercriminals to use this event to conduct their typical attacks like they do when the news gives them such opportunity.
Unfortunately, we were right and some sites have already started to circulate fake information on this subject to lure in the crowds in an attempt to infect their computers. Here is one of them we recently discovered. As you can see for yourself this author does not hesitate to make use of sensationalism:

-- Aurora Report says OMG that's it, that's all, well alrighty then.