SecurityTeam.usLatest HeadlinesMicrosoft Issues Critical Security Bulletins, Says Exploits Already Exist- July 13, 2005 Microsoft on Tuesday released a trio of security bulletins, all tagged as critical, two for Windows, the third for older editions of Microsoft Word. The July list of vulnerabilities and patches may be a fraction of June's even dozen, but they're no less important to patch, said Mike Murray, the director of research at vulnerability management vendor nCircle. "All three of these are worth patching, of course," said Murray, "because even for the one where an exploit isn't yet...http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050712201651645 Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal- July 7, 2005 Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony. Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer. The...http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050706220008645 Organized cybercrime has IT security experts scared- July 6, 2005 Unlike the script kiddies of yesterday, todays cyber-criminals are sophisticated, organized and out for a profit, according to a McAfee report released Tuesday. With the study, entitled McAfee Virtual Criminology Report: North American Study into Organized Crime and the Internet, McAfee hopes to educate the marketplace about the threats it is facing online, said Jack Sabbag, vice-president and general manager for Canada at McAfee Inc. in Pointe-Claire, Que. Its a new kind of risk, said James...http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050705214712268 |