Global Cyber News Bits, July 9, 2009 from CommunityDNS.
Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community.
UK data breach incidents on the rise
With an estimated cost of £60 per breached record, UK businesses are seeing an increase in data breaches. A recent study of 615 public and private organizations says 70% of UK organizations experienced some form of data breach this last year, an increase of 60% over the previous year. 12% were hit with five data loss incidents and only 43% of the breaches were disclosed publicly. The financial sector was the sector most affected by the problems. On the upside, awareness of the importance of data protection is on the rise.
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Are Malware Writers Getting Smarter?
With users more savvy regarding clicking on unknown links, why is malware infection rates on the rise? Hackers are focusing on exploits through vulnerabilities that do not require human interaction that results in infection. A recent report from one firewall manufacturer states that in one month 108 new vulnerabilities have been added to its firewall intrusion detection system, of which 62 were being actively exploited, an increase of 57.4% over the previous month.
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Details Emerge in U.S. Cyber Attacks
Yesterday’s News Bits reported that last weekend and earlier this week sites in the US and South Korea were attacked by a DDoS attack. South Korean intelligence believes the attack came from North Korea. More is known about the attacks such as the code used to initiate the attacks was not sophisticated. Instead of modular coding the code was of old-school form with much hardcoding, thus appearing the code was established for this attack only.
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German justice minister asks foreign ISPs to block neo-Nazi sites
Due to a law in Germany it is forbidden to have Nazi images, text and other content that can be viewed from within Germany. The justice minister is appealing to non-German-based ISPs to use their own terms of service as grounds for eliminating content that promotes the neo-Nazi-ism. One group has catalogued 1,600 sites run by the far-right extremists.
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French Senate passes revamped anti-piracy bill
Earlier this year the French government passed a “3-stikes” bill aimed at those who illegally download or upload copywrited content such as music and videos. The bill was struck down by France’s high court as unconstitutional. The previous bill left judgment of disconnecting one from the Internet to a government agency. This version of the bill leaves that decision to the courts.
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