SANS NewsBites

SANSFIRE 2011

DNSChanger Trojan Still Needs to be Cleaned from Fortune 500 and US Government Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)

Half of Fortune 500 companies and nearly half of all US federal government agencies still have the DNSChanger Trojan on their networks, according to researchers.......

30-Month Prison Sentence for Attempted Cyber Extortion (February 3 & 6, 2012)

Attila Nemeth has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for hacking into the a computer system belonging to Marriott International Inc.......

FBI Investigating Leaked Phone Call About Anonymous (February 3, 2012)

The FBI is investigating how hackers linked to the Anonymous group managed to gain access to a phone call between law enforcement agents in Britain and the UK during which they discussed taking legal action against the group.......

ISC-CERT Warns of Brute Force SSH Attack Threat for SCADA Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)

The Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ISC-CERT) has issued a warning to utilities that certain supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems may be vulnerable to brute-force attacks.......

Google and Facebook Remove Offensive Content in India (February 6, 2012)

Facebook and Google say they have removed content deemed "offensive" by Indian government officials.......

New Hampshire Legislature Passes Open Data Standard Bill (February 6, 2012)

Both houses of the New Hampshire state legislature have passed HB 418, which "requires state agencies to consider open source software when acquiring software and promotes the use of open data formats by state agencies.......

Film Company Includes Owners of Unsecured WiFi Networks in Filesharing Lawsuit (February 6, 2012)

A California company has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from more than 50 named and unnamed Massachusetts individuals for participating in illegal filesharing.......

BT Junkie Takes Itself Offline Voluntarily (February 6, 2012)

BT Junkie, a torrent search engine that is unaffiliated with BitTorrent, has voluntarily shuttered its website, ostensibly over concerns that it may be the target of law enforcement action similar to that which forced the shutdown of Megaupload.......

Commerce Dept's Economic Development Administration Suffers Cyber Attack (February 2 & 3, 2012)

The computer network of US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) has been hit with what appears to be a virus, forcing EDA to disable email and Internet access until an investigation determines the cause and scope of the problem.......

Manning to Face All Charges in Court Martial (February 3, 2012)

The commander of the US Army Military District of Washington has announced that Pfc.......

Swedish Government Website Targeted by Hackers (February 4, 2012)

Hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Swedish government's main website.......

FDIC Guidance Clarification

Thank you to everyone who wrote in on the FDIC FIL 3- 2012 guidance to banks.......