Archive for June, 2006

Top Financial Sites Aid in Phishing

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

A Blog at Washington Post discloses many major financial institutions, stock market facilities, and e-commerce businesses with having cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that aid phishers in gaining misplaced trust. Among the list were eBay, American Stock Exchange, American Express, Visa and Microsoft. The research was performed by Secure Science Corporation

Botnets are the Future

Friday, June 16th, 2006

An article on CNET covers the fact that even though law enforcement is making solid efforts, the cybercrime problem is not diminishing, but actually advancing.

quoted from the article:

“Botnets are one of the greatest facilitators of cybercrime these days. Really the cybercrime arena is wrapped around botnets.”
–Wendi Whitmore, special agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations