Webmasters from many on-line hosting providers are targeted in a new round of Avalanche phish.
Spam emails bear the same basic message with variations in the email subject line which use the name of the target hosting company.
Recipients who click on the included link are taken to a Web site made to look like a cPanel page.
Due to the system maintenance, we kindly ask you to take a few minutes to confirm your FTP details.
Please confirm your FTP details by using the link below:
Webmasters who fall for the scam should contact their hosting provider and have them change the password/s. The site should also be checked for any changes.
Article and Sceenshots at “CyberCrime & Doing Time” by Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
President Barack Obama announced his plans for securing cyberspace.
“we’ve had to learn a whole new vocabulary just to stay ahead of the cyber criminals who would do us harm — spyware and malware and spoofing and phishing and botnets.”
Obama also mention Conficker.
No single official oversees cybersecurity policy across the federal government, and no single agency has the responsibility or authority to match the scope and scale of the challenge. Indeed, when it comes to cybersecurity, federal agencies have overlapping missions and don’t coordinate and communicate nearly as well as they should — with each other or with the private sector. We saw this in the disorganized response to Conficker, the Internet “worm” that in recent months has infected millions of computers around the world.
http://certifiedbug.com/blog/tag/conficker/
Net savvy Obama used social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter during his campaign.
Press release:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON SECURING OUR NATION’S CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE
New York Times:
Fending Off Attacks in Cyberspace
Steve Riley
Will the new US “Cybersecurity Coordinator” actually be able to do anything?
