The Russian Cybermafia: RBN & the RBS WorldPay attack

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	The Russian Cybermafia: RBN & the RBS WorldPay attack The Russian Business Network (RBN) is infamous for its involvement in malicious software, distributed DoS attacks, hacking, child pornography, and spam. Much like other Russian cybercrime syndicates the Russian Business Network had its roots in the old fashion selling hacking tools and services that could even penetrate many U.S. government systems. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP Understanding VM Security Hype Today's Virtual Switches Typically Lack Sufficient Monitoring Capabilities. Address virtualization security challenges an learn how to maintain trust zone definition through the workload lifecycle. Read now. In this Issue McAfee's website full of security holes, researcher says Should smartphones be allowed in the courthouse? No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying Two-thirds OK with hosting games on company gear: survey Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit Anti-Virus Software Driving You Mad? 5 Fight-Back Tips Companies pick and choose which data breaches to report WHITE PAPER: EMC Stay Ahead of Data Protection Challenges If you still yearn for an infrastructure that can handle unpredictable data growth and enable you to enhance service levels, while ensuring data protection, read this ESG white paper. Learn how EMC is helping businesses completely transform their data protection processes. Read more now. Read now McAfee's website full of security holes, researcher says The McAfee.com website is full of security mistakes that could lead to cross-site scripting and other attacks, researchers said in a post on the Full Disclosure site on Monday. The holes with the site were found by the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, and reported to McAfee on Feb. 10, YGN says, before they were publicly disclosed to the security/hacking mailing list. Read More Should smartphones be allowed in the courthouse? Federal courts have been debating about how much freedom users of smartphones and portable wireless devices in general, should have in a federal courthouse.    Read More WEBCAST: IBM Malware is Everywhere Get up to speed on the proliferation of security issues and hear about new techniques that combine IBM Rational AppScan and Internet Security Systems (ISS) technologies to scan and identify unwanted, embedded malware. View Now No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying There is an interesting post on Cryptome, TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker, in which one of Tor's creators, Michael Reed, says to look at why the government created Tor from a common sense point-of-view instead of as conspiracy theory. Read More Two-thirds OK with hosting games on company gear: survey Granted, we're talking about an online survey of self-selected participants, but more than a thousand people responded to our poll about the propriety of hosting private video games on company equipment, and a solid majority – about 65% -- said they are OK with the practice. You can details here. The survey was run in conjunction with last week's story headlined: "On the company... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Securing Virtualized Data Centers Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement. Read Now Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they're now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are actively infecting computers. Read More Anti-Virus Software Driving You Mad? 5 Fight-Back Tips Last week some Windows users struggled through unexpected PC slowdowns due to a security program bundled in with a Java update. Security programs still hog PC resources and pose annoyances -- but here's expert advice on how you can regain control. Read More Companies pick and choose which data breaches to report One in 7 information technology companies have not reported data breaches or losses to outside government agencies, authorities or stockholders. Read More
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