Ice IX Steals Phone Numbers to Compromise Accounts Tracy Kitten February 6, 2012 A new Zeus variant has the attention of security experts - not because of its sophistication, but because of its automation. Named Ice IX, this new malware targets online banking users' login and passwords, but the ultimate aim is telephone numbers. Trusteer's Amit Klein, in a blog about Ice IX, ...
Feb 02, 2012 The National Institute of Standards and Technology is making up to $10 million available for research projects addressing the challenges of implementing a trusted online identity ecosystem. The Obama administration released its National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace last year, a conceptual framework for a system of voluntary, interoperable credentials that could be widely ...
By dperera Created Feb 1 2012 - 11:45pm Federal efforts to build an online identity ecosystem moved forward Feb. 1 with a National Institute of Standards and Technology call for proposals for five to eight pilot projects lasting up to 2 years. NIST manages a program known as the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which seeks to create a new web-based ...
By John Fontana | February 2, 2012, 1:31pm PST Summary: The effort to create a national identity infrastructure is starting to take shape as $10 million is ear-marked to fund pilot programs that may well form the foundation of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The government’s digital identity strategy took its biggest leap forward opening up ...
Thursday, February 2, 2012 The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a competition to award a approximately $10 million for pilot projects to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, trusted online credentials that go beyond simple user IDs and passwords. The NIST-hosted national program office will manage the competition for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. According to ...
Claims its DNS network wasn't breached, but mum on whether SSL certificates were compromised Gregg Keizer February 2, 2012 (Computerworld) VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010. The admission was disclosed last fall in ...
IRS and DOJ team on nationwide strike against identity theft, fraud, phishing By Michael Cooney, Network World January 31, 2012 03:51 PM ET The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice teamed up for a coast-to-coast crackdown on identity thieves this week. The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice teamed up for a coast-to-coast crackdown on identity thieves this week. The coast-to-coast ...
Compromised WordPress 3.2.1 blogs infect visitors with TDSS rootkit through Java exploits By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service January 31, 2012 09:50 AM ET Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web security firm Websense. It's not clear how the websites are being compromised, but there are publicly known exploits ...
Marquisa Kirkland 2nd February 2012 Security researchers over at Trusteer have discovered a new variant of the Ice IX Trojan that not only steals online banking information, but telephone information that allows the crooks to divert post-transaction verification calls from the bank to phone numbers that they control. Ice IX is a modified version of the widespread – ...
Making Online Transactions Safer, Faster, and More Private San Francisco, CA., (Feb 28th, 2012) ─ Ohanae supports the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) vision where individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use, and interoperable identity solutions to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation. The realization of ...