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Hello and welcome to the FSH Security Center. Here you will find everything you need to know about various aspects of everyday security. We will include information on not only computer security, but also on personal identity, financial and banking safety and various other consumer issues.
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AV-Test release latest results
Independent testing body AV-Test.org has released the results of a major comparative of suite products, with many vendors' 2009 editions included in the results. The test covers a range of metrics, including detection rates over various types of malware including adware and spyware, false positive rates, scanning speed, proactive detection, and response times to outbreaks.
In terms of pure detection rates in on-demand scanning, a beta version of GDATA's AVK 2009 topped the charts for both 'malware' (measured against 1,164,662 samples) and 'ad- and spyware' (94,291 samples), with Avira's Premium Security Suite 2008 a close runner-up in the former category and F-Secure 2009 placing second in the latter. Secure Computing's Webwasher gateway product, based on the Avira engine with some in-house heuristics, came third in both categories.
Other areas analysed were scored on a five-point scale from very good to very poor. 'Proactive' protection included scanning of files discovered after the freezing of products, and executing unrecognised malware to test behavioural protection. Products rating 'good' or better in every category include Avira's premium suite (the popular free version has less complete spyware detection), AVK 2009, F-Secure's 2009 suite, Symantec's Norton I.S. 2009 (still in beta) and Sophos's Security Suite 2.5. All products taking part in the test managed to achieve a 'good' or better in at least one category.
The test also included keeping a record of the number of updates released over a four-week period. Of course, these numbers on their own cannot be used to measure the quality of the products involved, but were recorded out of interest. The most interesting data to emerge from this measurement was that the 2009 version of Norton topped the table with an impressive 6,202 incremental micro-updates, issued several times per hour, while Kaspersky came a distant second with a mere 696. Half of the 34 products tested had fewer than 100, including those from McAfee (21) and Trend Micro (30).
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Posted by: Lite on September 7th, 2008 | 0 Comments made | Post a Comment
'Greatest cyber-heist in world history'
Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history", as a Scottish newspaper put it?
Or was the incident a significantly more minor affair, affecting only 10 customers at the one facility, as claimed by Best Western International?
The hotel chain and the Sunday Herald newspaper of Scotland are duking it out over the paper's story on the data breach. Best Western calls the article "grossly unsubstantiated" and "largely erroneous".
The story said a hacker installed a malicious program on a computer used for reservations at a Best Western hotel, and used it to steal a database containing details on every customer who checked into one of Best Western's 1,312 European hotels since 2007.
The hacker then sold the database through an "underground network operated by the Russian mafia", the story claimed. View: Original Article
Posted by: Lite on August 27th, 2008 | 0 Comments made | Post a Comment
Million bank customers details sold on eBay
The eBay computer scandal which saw the loss of personal data on a million bank customers is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner.
The firms involved - the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and American
Express - have also promised to launch probes.
The Mail revealed today that the data was found on a second-hand computer sold for £35 in an eBay auction. View: Original Article
Posted by: Lite on August 27th, 2008 | 0 Comments made | Post a Comment
Hackers attack Facebook
On the Internet, popularity often draws the attention of hackers. So it is not surprising that Facebook has become the target of a spate of attacks, just as the membership on the site has swelled to about 100 million active users worldwide.
In recent days, many Facebook users have seen a sharp increase in spam, some of it pretty racy. Over the weekend, several Facebook users contacted us saying that their accounts appeared to have been hijacked, and some said their accounts had been deactivated.
Facebook acknowledges that it has been under attack but suggested the problems were largely under control. "Over the past few days, we have received reports from users of spam and phishing attacks," the company said in a statement. "We have also detected and contained a worm. We are investigating every report, removing false content, blocking bogus links and addressing the concerns of our users. These efforts have limited the affected users to a small percentage of those on Facebook."
Some of the attacks were linked to Koobface, an Internet worm that began targeting Facebook and MySpace users in late July. Since then, the Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has identified about 27 variants of Koobface. View: Original Article
Posted by: Lite on August 27th, 2008 | 0 Comments made | Post a Comment
US cracks 'biggest ID fraud case'
The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of credit-card details in the country's largest-ever identity theft case.
They are accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers before selling the information.
They allegedly hacked into the computer systems of several major US retailers and installed software to access account details and passwords.
Prosecutors said the alleged fraud was an "international conspiracy". View: Original Article
Posted by: Lite on August 10th, 2008 | 0 Comments made | Post a Comment