Clearly Oregon State University does not pay enough attention to security bloggers who have derided such trite phrases as “in an abundance of caution.” Their press release from today: Oregon State University is notifying 34,000 current and former employees that a computer containing some of their personal information was recently infected by a virus, even…
Category: Malware
OU Reports Virus, Security Breach
The University of Oklahoma is warning students about a security breach that may put their personal information at risk. The university said its Information Technology department noticed unusual Internet activity on a laptop computer associated with its network. It said it determined the computer belonged to an employee and was infected with a virus known…
e-Banking Bandits Stole $465,000 From Calif. Escrow Firm
Brian Krebs writes: A California escrow firm has been forced to take out a pricey loan to pay back $465,000 that was stolen when hackers hijacked the company’s online bank account earlier this year. In March, computer criminals broke into the network of Redondo Beach based Village View Escrow Inc. and sent 26 consecutive wire…
Massive keylogger cache posted to Pastebin.com
Steve Ragan reports: Details for thousands of accounts, from Facebook to PayPal, have surfaced over the weekend on Pastebin.com. The details, which come from keylogging software, appear to have been dumped automatically to the site based on observations from BitDefender, who tipped The Tech Herald off to their existence on Friday. Along with usernames and…
Il: Hacker Arrested for Stealing Bank Info
Short item from Israel National News: A 21 year old Or Akiva resident has been arrested on suspicion that he hacked into computers and stole personal details – including bank account details – from dozens of people. The hacker used a trojan horse, working in the background and collecting data from its victims, and forwarding…
Olympus apologises after shipping malware-laced cameras in Japan
John Leyden reports: Olympus has apologised after it distributed a digital camera in Japan that came with added malware on its internal memory card. An estimated 1,700 Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact cameras shipped pre-pwned with auto-run code designed to infect Windows PCs they were connected to, net security firm Sophos reports. The malware uses…