GoDaddy.com DOSed

GoDaddy.com was hit with a denial-of-service attack Wednesday morning, prompting 600,000 of its customers' hosted Web sites to go dark for roughly an hour and e-mail service was also disrupted for some of its 4 million customers. DOS attack lasted 65 minute >> Link

Apple OS X releases security patches

Apple released on Tuesday security patches for Tiger and Panther. Thirteen security flaws were found in areas related to the Apache 2 Web server, curl technology and the Safari browser. >> Link

Surprize, surprize: Phishing on the rise.

The FTC reports that both identity theft and Internet-related financial fraud is steeply rising, with formal complaints climbing from 161,896 in 2002 to 246,570 in the last year. Many of these attacks originate in countries in Eastern Europe and Africa, making it difficult for the authorities to find and prosecute the offenders. To help reduce this type of crime, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), an umbrella group of U.S. regulators that includes the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., recommended that banks increase their online security by 2006. >> Link

A Gartner survey of 5,000 U.S. adults showed that phishing attacks grew at double-digit rates last year in the United States. In the twelve months ending in May 2005, an estimated 73 million U.S. adults who use the Internet said they definitely, or think, they received an average of more than 50 phishing e-mails in the past year. 2.4 million online consumers report losing money directly because of the phishing attacks. >> Gartner Link

Cybercrime yields more cash than drugs

Cybercrime is moving at such a high speed that law enforcement cannot catch up with it. Phishing Web sites only stayed on the Internet for a maximum of 48 hours. Last year was the first year that proceeds from cybercrime were greater than proceeds from the sale of illegal drugs, and that was over $105 billion... >> Link

Trojan preloaded on hard drives

IO Data Device Corporation has announced that certain models in their “HDP-U” line of portable hard drives somehow escaped loaded with the “W32/Tompai-A” trojan. They didn’t release the serial numbers of infected drives until 14 hours after the announcement of the infection and they are not offering a removal tool (yet). Apparently they expect you to use your own software or download a 30 day trial of Trend Micro’s software; thanks for the help, IO Data! >> Link

Verizon sues cell phone spammer

Verizon has received "numerous complaints from customers," according to the lawsuit, and faced spam-related expenses of $150,000. >> Link

Sober: Biggest Worm Of The Year

MITRE assigned it a CME-ID: CME-681

This variant of Sober generates e-mails that purport to be from the CIA or FBI. These messages tell the recipient they have been looking at illegal Web sites and should answer some questions in the e-mail's attachment. If the attachment is opened, the computer is infected, and the virus sends copies of itself to any e-mail addresses found on the hard drive. >> Link

SANS 20 Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities

In addition to Windows and UNIX categories, we have also included Cross-Platform Applications and Networking Products. >> Link

Mobile phones growth [Gartner]

The third quarter of 2005 saw 205.4 million mobiles sold around the world, a 22 per cent increase on the same period of last year, according to analyst Gartner. As a result of the higher than expected growth, Gartner has now increased its worldwide mobile sales figure for the year to 810 million units. >>Link

Message Labs September 2005 report

Dated, but interesting. MessageLabs Intelligence monthly report provides email threat trends for September 2005. >> Link