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Invasion of the botnets: Cyberattacks on the rise The types of cyberattacks aren't new, but the speed and number of them are on the rise By William Jackson Aug 28, 2009 For the past year, the cyber threat landscape has been dominated not by new vulnerabilities and exploits so much as by the sheer number of attacks against information technology systems and the growing professionalization of the bad guys behind them. In this report: New threats emerge from once-trusted protocols and services “The sexiness of the threat has not increased,” said one industry observer who met with a multiagency task force on intrusion. “But the exposure in terms of the number of exploits is growing exponentially.” The numbers are sobering. “Malware is at the highest point we’ve ever seen it,” said Dave Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Avert Labs. “2008 was the biggest year so far. The first half of 2009 has eclipsed all of 2008,” with 8,0...

New threats emerge from once-trusted protocols and services Vulnerabilities in services such as DNS and SSL open new avenues of attack By William Jackson Aug 28, 2009 The rapid morphing and bundling of exploits for known vulnerabilities could be the biggest concern for security experts, but that doesn’t mean that new threats are not emerging. Two of the most troubling are in the Domain Name System and Secure Sockets Layer, services users have trusted for years. In this report: Invasion of the botnets: Cyberattacks on the rise A zero-day exploit emerged last month for a vulnerability in one of the most commonly used DNS servers, forcing many users to update the software that helps to direct Internet traffic. “Pretty much any BIND 9 server can be brought down with this script,” said Branko Miskov, product manager director at BlueCat Networks. “Our development team was quite surprised at how simple this was.” Also last month, researchers ...

Source: Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates More employers than ever are researching job candidates on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter in order to find out more about their activities and character. And, it turns out, many candidates are doing a great job of showing their potential bosses poor communication skills, inappropriate pictures, and even how many workplace secrets they can leak. By Jacqui Cheng | Last updated August 20, 2009 3:02 PM CT Some of us had the luck of doing stupid things online before most employers knew what social networking was. (I'll admit it: in my early working days, I said some not-nice things online about some of the people I worked with.) These days, however, those looking for jobs have had many years to build up an unsavory history across the Internet, and employers now know how to do their homework. In fact, nearly half of the employers in the US now search for job candidates on socia...

MISTAKE What they actually mean If a barber makes a mistake, It's a New Style If a driver makes a mistake, It is a New path If a engineer makes a mistake, It is a New Venture If parents makes a mistake, It is a New Generation If a politician makes a mistake, It is a New Law If a scientist makes a mistake, It is a New Invention If a tailor makes a mistake, It is a New Fashion If a teacher makes a mistake , It is a New Theory If our boss makes a mistake, It is a New idea If an employee makes a mistake, It is a 'Mistake' long piak! (a.k.a. banging against the wall)