Tech Alert Briefing for 8/24/2007
August 24, 2007
Update covering August 17 - August 23, 2007
Welcome to Tech Talk! In this week's edition of Tech Talk, BOL Guru Jeff Patterson writes about a major ID attack on Monster.com.
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Beware of Phishing and Pharming
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, phishing attacks reached an all-time high last year. Designed specifically to educate and assist financial institutions, Harland Financial Solutions? Phishing Response Kit provides a detailed checklist and directives to help institutions respond in the event of a phishing scam. Download the complete kit here.
Monster ID Theft
According to Symantec, nearly 1.6 million people have had information about themselves stolen from Monster.com's Worldwide job search service.Stolen information includes names, addresses, email addresses and other information commonly found on a resume.CSOOnline has additional information.
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Phishing in Wells (Fargo)
Phishers are taking quick action in an attempt to trick Wells Fargo customers into divulging their login information after an outage in the bank's online services.The new phishing campaign attempts to lure users into entering their personal information by claiming Wells Fargo needs to update their account information because of the recent outage.CNet has the full story.
BOL Scams Index
Check back and vote this week on scams of the phishing variety. The poll, located on the BOL home page, will update with each vote throughout the week. Thanks for participating!
TJX Link Arrested
A major link to the data stolen from TJX is a Ukrainian man who was recently arrested in a Turkish nightclub.Although not believed to have actually broken into the TJX network, Maksym Yastremskiy is accused of being the largest reseller.Read the full story in InformationWeek.
Playing the Blame Game
Skype is blaming Microsoft for at least a portion of a recent problem that led to a two-day outage for many of its 220 million customers.According to Skype, a large number of computers restarted after applying last Tuesday's Microsoft patches.All of those computers restarting triggered a previously unseen software bug that resulted in the failure of its system.Find out more in SecurityFix.
95 Make Weekly Weak List
The US-CERT Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 13 2007, lists twenty-eight High, sixty-two Medium and five Low severity vulnerabilities. Weaknesses were listed in multiple Microsoft products, Apache Tomcat; Adobe Flash; IBM AIX; Lotus Notes; Mozilla Firefox; Sun Solaris; and the Linux kernel.
A Genuine iPhone Giveaway
Get details of BOL Learning Connect's iPhone Giveaway. The only blame game on the iPhone is for those who didn't enter and don't have one.It's not too late to enter!
P.S. from the BOL Team:Don't wait until that panicked moment that occurs when you learn your institution's name is being used as the hook in a phishing scam.Be prepared.Download the free financial institution phishing attack response kit from Harland Financial Solutions.See the link above.
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