Headlines of Note

Lithik Systems seeks to stay current on news items that reflect a potential for impact on IT security or our clients’ business environment as a whole.

• Are your printers vulnerable to attack? Hint: They probably are (2011-11)
• Cybercrime eclipses illegal drugs in cost to the economy ($338B) (2011-09)
• Cyberwar against US companies uses attacks thwarted by Lithik Systems’ Simplified Firewall Architecture for Combating Malware (2011-08)
• Capchas stop most hackers because it breaks their cost model (2011-06)
• Hackers focus their attacks on poorly patched and poorly protected organizations, evidence that good protection requires good practices and disciplines, not super high tech products (2010-08)
• FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt, the laptop disk encryption software used by Lithik Systems (2010-06)
• Malicious software introduced via USB drive infects U. S. military network (2010-09)
• Over 75,000 corporate and government PCs discovered in massive botnet (2010-02-18)
• 70% of the top 100 most popular web sites were compromised in the second half of 2008 (2009-01-22)
• Attackers break through your internal defenses far more than your external defenses (2007-10-19)
• Swedish bank loses $1.1M (US) in customized phishing attack (2007-01-22)
• RSA identifies phishing kit implementing man-in-the-middle attack (2007-01-10)
• Hackers use wire transfers and pump-and-dump to drain brokerage accounts (2006-10-24)
• Phishers crack two-factor authentication (2006-07-14)
• Spyware is up 50% in one year (2006-05-17)
• Company leaks data by violating its own media retirement policy (2006-05-04)
• Research shows cybercrime is now a well organized underground market (2006-04-10)
• Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley by adopting best practices delivers big benefits (2005-12)