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- Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs
- Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot
- Update on the Kelihos botnet
- The state of cyberwar in the U.S.
- Quick response, quick risk?
- Simple steps to ensure online safety
- Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones
- Windows privilege management with enterprise reporting capabilities
- CRISC certification: Reacting to a radically changing IT landscape
- Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware
- Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams
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Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems usually come in small packages. 
A Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company's internal documents and threatening to publish them has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a District of Maryland judge.
As a country that is used to being dominant in the more traditional sense, the U.S. has been working to come to grips with a new sense of supremacy as a result of cyber threats, according to DiploNews. The U.S. has taken steps towards allowing cyberwarfare.
VeriSign admitted it was hacked in 2010 and cannot identify what data was stolen. Here are comments on the situation that Help Net Security received from industry veterans from Entrust, BH Cosulting, Imperva, LogLogic, SystemExperts Corporation and Comodo.
A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts to identify key differences between average real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and spammers.
Kelihos - the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead - is back and working.
If you are interested in knowing everything that you can possibly know about networking, chances are you were already urged to read Network Warrior. Four years have passed since the first edition was published and found a place on the shelf of every serious network administrator, and this second edition has been modified somewhat to keep pace with the newer hardware and to cover additional subjects. 
As the moment when the new legislation for defending the rights of copyright holders regarding online sharing will be discussed is coming near, the Irish politician pushing it and the government itself are being repeatedly attacked by the hacker collective Anonymous.
Recent highly-targeted security attacks have impacted enterprise and government organizations. The breadth and sophistication of these attacks is prompting organizations to review their authentication strategies and solutions - some for the first time in years.
Researchers from security companies Zscaler and Seculert have issued a warning about bogus emails targeting employees of defense-related organizations around the world in order to trick them into installing malware.
Trusteer have discovered a concerning development in some new Ice IX configurations that are targeting online banking customers in the UK and US. Ice IX is a modified variant of the ZeuS financial malware platform.
McAfee and the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) revealed the findings from a report that paints a global snapshot of current thinking about the cyber-threat and the measures that should be taken to defend against them, and assesses the way ahead.