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Q&A: Go back to paper ballots, says e-voting expert, Sep. 23, 2006, Marc Songini September 20, 2006 (Computerworld) Avi Rubin is unique in that he is both a professor of computer science who specializes in e-voting security issues and someone who directly participates in the electoral process as a Maryland elections judge. ...More

University of Texas Probes Computer Breach, The Associated Press Sunday, April 23, 2006; 10:11 PM ...More

Computer Security: Taking the OECD's anti-spam solution one step  further, By Stuart Corner  , Monday, 24 April 2006, -...More ---See also: OECD wants global push to stop the scourge of spam

Security Firms Bust Malware-for-Sale Racketeers, By John P. Mello Jr. TechNewsWorld , 04/20/06 8:27 AM PT ...More

Purdue Security Experts: 'Patch' to Protect New Computers,                 source: Purdue University,

UM Eng. to IT Admins: Rethink Your Security Solutions, source: University of Maryland, College Park, released on Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. University of Maryland engineers publish surprising data on hacker behavior and create free windows software to check vulnerabilities....

Computer security incidents cost NZ businesses millions The National Business Review - Internet security breaches are costing New Zealand businesses between $140 million and $240 million a year, a new study shows...

NC judge declines protection for Diebold Seattle Post Intelligencer - By GARY D. ROBERTSON. RALEIGH, NC -- One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling ...

Expert to test security of electronic voting machines San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Nov 26, 2005 SACRAMENTO – A computer hacker will try to break into one of California's electronic voting machines as part of a security test initiated by the state. ...

California may impose hacker test on all electronic vote machines Monterey County Herald, CA - SACRAMENTO - Companies wanting to sell electronic voting machines in California may be forced to prove their systems can withstand an attack from a computer ...

"AUDIO: Sec. of State Spokesperson Evades Questions in Live On-Air ... Brad Blog - AUDIO: Sec. of State Spokesperson Evades Questions in Live On-Air Interview About California/Diebold Situation. Brad Questions McPherson ...

NC judge dismisses voting machine case, vendor may pull out Akron Beacon Journal, OH - CASE DISMISSED: A Wake County judge dismissed a request by Diebold Election Systems, which is based in North Canton, Ohio, to protect the company from ...

Elections vendor may decide not to bid to offer new voting ... WWAY NewsChannel 3, NC - RALEIGH, NC A leading elections vendor may withdraw from bidding to offer new voting equipment in North Carolina. That's after a ...

Diebold machines face crucial test Daily Review Online, CA - Back in May, voting activists went on the Internet and for $300 apiece purchased two devices used to record moisture levels in corn. ...

Hacker gets blessing to hole democracy LaSalute.net, Italy - A FINNISH computer hacker is going to break into the Diebold Election System with the blessing of California's secretary of state... ...

California to test Diebold voting machine security LaSalute.net, Italy - California election officials said on Friday they invited a Finnish computer security expert to break into an electronic voting machine built by Diebold Inc. ...

Hacker to try to attack state voting machines LaSalute.net, Italy - A computer hacker will be trying to break into one of California's electronic voting machines next week, with the full cooperation of the secretary of state... ...

"Confusion, Misreporting Surround Reports on CA Sec. of State ... Brad Blog - With Additional Reporting by John Gideon On Friday, November 25, a news story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle by political writer John Wildermuth ...

Voting machine deadline nears Sacramento Bee,  USA - By Kevin Yamamura -- Bee Capitol Bureau. William Schultz has to replace a county's worth of outdated punch-card voting machines, but he's unsure how to proceed. ...

Ohio's Diebold Debacle: New Machines Call Election Results Into ... DisInfo.com, NY - 'Massive Election Day irregularities are emerging in reports from all over Ohio after the introduction of Diebold's electronic voting in nearly half of the ...

Hacker Hired To Test Electronic Voting Machines CBS 13, CA - (AP) SACRAMENTO A computer hacker from Finland has been asked to break into one of California's electronic voting machines as part of a security test initiated ...

Computer Hacker Invited To Break Into State's Voting Machines NBC4.TV, CA - SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Finnish computer hacker plans to break into one of California's electronic voting machines -- but he has the state's permission. ...

Computer Hacking Test WTVY, AL - The machine was made by Diebold (DEE'-bohld) Election Systems, which is one of the nation's largest manufacturers of electronic voting systems. ...

Ohio's Diebold debacle: New machines call election results into ... Online Journal, FL - By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman. Massive Election Day irregularities are emerging in reports from all over Ohio after the introduction ...

Setback for e-voting supplier Diebold Sydney Morning Herald (subscription), Australia - One of America's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined on Monday to ...

NC judge declines protection for Diebold San Jose Mercury News,  USA - RALEIGH, NC - One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge ...

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Hackers target net call systems ,Monday, 19 September 2005, 09:30 GMT 10:30 UK

Security vendor warns of Google-spoofing worm (September 16, 2005)

Hackers are all B'stards now, by Kelly Martin, SecurityFocus, Published Friday 16th Sept. 2005 9:09GMT

The Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security, September 12, 2005

Schneier on Security, a weblog covering security and security technology.

Special: How to control your home computer from anywhere, READ MORE: Feature, Life hacks

Update: Mass. teen pleads guilty in Paris Hilton hacking case (September 14, 2005)

Red Cross works to better protect its networks from attacks, scams (September 12, 2005)

What mutating spyware reveals about the future of security (September 09, 2005)

Katrina aftermath: Beware of e-looters (September 09, 2005)

Top spammer arrested in Los Angeles   

by Dan Whitcomb

VOIP may be vulnerable to barrage of threats

by Leon Erlanger, InfoWorld  | Oct. 25, 2005

Is enterprise VoIP (voice over IP) due for a security wakeup call or are the threats mostly exaggerated? It depends on who's talking. More

BitTorrent user convicted spelling end to carefree file sharing  

Posted by Stuart Miles

24 October 2005 - It might have become the norm to illegally download television shows and the latest blockbuster movies on the internet the day they are released, but all that is about to change with the news that a Hong Kong man has been convicted for illegally distributing movies over the internet using BitTorrent (BT) file sharing technology. More

Hacking on the increase      

Research shows a 50 per cent increase on previous year

James Brown, Computing 02 Aug 2005

There were 237 million hacking attacks from January to June this year, a 50 per cent increase over the previous half year, research shows.

IBM's Global Business Security Index shows one in 52 emails contained a malicious security threat in December 2004,a figure that increased to one in 28 by June this year.

There was however a fall in the ratio between spam and legitimate email from 83 per cent in January to 67 per cent in June, but virus carrying emails increased by 50 per cent.

The IBM report also records a 10-fold increase in what it calls ?spear-phishing?, the deliberate targeting of individuals or organisations in an attempt to trick them into giving away sensitive information.

Other findings in the Global Business Security Index include:

    Who gets attacked most:  governments are the most targeted with more than 54 million attacks, manufacturing ranked second with almost 36 million attacks recorded and financial services was third with a little over 34 million

    Origin of attacks:  Over the past six months, the United States was the source of the most attacks with 12 million, followed by New Zealand with 1.2 million, and China with approximately one million; Ireland was last with more than 30,000 attacks

   When will they attack: Increased critical security events are seen on Fridays and Sundays

   Look out for snoopers: Reconnaissance attacks - probes to discover what devices, software, or vulnerabilities may exist - totalled more than 108 million, followed by service attacks of more than 61 million, web attacks with 29 million, denial of service attacks with 26 million; security administration was last with more than 230,000 attacks

source: www.computing.co.uk/2140661 

Malicious code attacks escalating as hackers work for financial gain 

Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE, Tom Espiner
ZDNet UK, September 19, 2005, 14:00 BST

Hackers target net call systems, BBCnews, Monday, 19 September 2005, 09:30 GMT 10:30 UK  

Passwords in security

Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 12:21 AM CET

Breaking into corporate networks, and thereby corporate information, has never been easier. Why? Firstly, access to systems (usually Windows) at the desktop is universal. Secondly, most people, including techies, don't appear to know how to select adequately secure passwords. More...