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From Tech Republic: The Washington Post reports in Defense official discloses cyberattack: The most significant breach of US military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a US military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. A foreign intelligence agency managed to place malware on a USB flash drive that [...]

From SecurityFocus: The cybercriminals behind the Zeus botnet used Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) to host the central server used to control a portion of the compromised machines, security firm CA stated on Thursday. The company found that infected machines would contact a server hosted in Amazon’s cloud to download updates and additional functionality to [...]

From Dark Reading: Keyloggers and spyware are the most commonly occurring attacks in companies that suffer major data breaches, according to a report published today by Verizon Business. The new report, “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” offers a look at the 15 most common security attacks and how [...]

From Ars Technica: In a couple of years, crossing the 1Gbps threshold with a WiFi access point will be routine. That access point will likely have two radios, one for each major spectrum band, and support a host of older flavors for compatibility. Eventually, WiFi will approach the robustness and speed needed to make it [...]

Found a great article on network broadcasts today on ISC SANS: So Rob, you say, aren’t we done talking about protecting switches and the like at Layer 2 yet?  We talked about Man in the Middle Attacks in October, and Layer 2 remediation against Man in the Middle Attacks in November, that should cover it, [...]

From the Google Code Blog: Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster, we are announcing Google Public DNS, a new experimental public DNS resolver. The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the Internet’s “phone book”. Every time you visit a website, your computer performs a [...]

From Dark Reading: If you’re not in the office these days, chances are that you’ve brought the office with you. Mobile devices, from laptop computers to smart phones, are becoming standard issue in business. But the security of those devices is a lot less certain. According to market analysis firm Gartner, Inc., global smart phone [...]

I found an interesting article on Tech Republic that I wanted to pass along. In the above “60 Minutes” video, correspondent Steve Kroft spoke with former and current US government officials and private-sector security about the nation’s vulnerability to cyber attack. “If I were an attacker and I wanted to do strategic damage to the [...]

From Dark Reading:

I found this little gem while catching up on my ISC SANS reading this morning. Have you ever thought about your routers.  I mean – *really* thought about them?  They think all day long, processing all of the packets in and out of your company’s WAN or internet connection, and hardly ever complain.  But can [...]