SecurityTeam.usLatest HeadlinesThe Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them)- August 30, 2005 "An exclusive look at how the hackers called TITAN RAIN are stealing U.S. secrets" by TIME Magazine It was another routine night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his alarm for 2 a.m. Waking in the dark, he took a thermos of...http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050829200849601 Windows Flaw May Let Hackers Hide Code From AV Scanners- August 27, 2005 A flaw in how Windows handles entries in the all-important registry can be used by hackers to hide evidence of malicious code from a wide swath of commercial anti-virus and anti-spyware scanners, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported Friday. While the disclosure of the bug by Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia on Wednesday got little attention, Internet Storm Center (ISC) analysts believed it was far more dangerous than it looked. "Once we started to play with the vulnerability, the..http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050826231630168 Bot Battle Brewing- August 18, 2005 Just as the author of the Zotob bot worm was tentatively identified Wednesday as the same individual who wrote some of the Mytob worms, several security firms warned users that a Bagle vs. Netsky-style battle between bots is under way. "Competing factions seem to be dueling for control of the botnets of PCs in order to perpetrate wider Internet criminal activity," said Alex Shipp, a senior anti-virus technologist at U.K.-based security vendor MessageLabs, in a statement e-mailed to...http://www.securityteam.us/article.php/20050818112710232 |