Recent articles by Dan Kaplan

CA acquires job-scheduling giant Cybermation

CA acquires job-scheduling giant Cybermation

CA announced Thursday it is has acquired Cybermation, a leading enterprise job-scheduling vendor, for $75 million.
Dan Kaplan Apr 14 2006 9:09PM Security
Cover story: Defining trust

Cover story: Defining trust

As the mastermind of the Bali nightclub bombings awaited execution, he published a jailhouse autobiography teaching others to follow in his footsteps.
Dan Kaplan Apr 14 2006 8:14PM Security
Scam targets popular Trade Me auction site

Scam targets popular Trade Me auction site

Scammers have unleashed a common phishing attack against users of New Zealand’s largest auction website, Trade Me.
Dan Kaplan Apr 13 2006 7:16PM Security
Security firm warns of 'toll-free' Chase phishing scam

Security firm warns of 'toll-free' Chase phishing scam

Hoping to increase their victim pool, scammers have launched a new Chase Bank email phishing scheme asking recipients to provide their personal information on a toll-free telephone call.
Dan Kaplan Apr 12 2006 6:38PM Security
MySpace taps Microsoft security bigwig for CSO gig

MySpace taps Microsoft security bigwig for CSO gig

Hugely popular social networking site MySpace.com has hired a chief security officer, naming a Microsoft executive to help protect the online community’s more than 68 million members.
Dan Kaplan Apr 11 2006 8:54PM Security
Web fraud costs victims $180M

Web fraud costs victims $180M

Victims lost more than $180 million in web fraud incidents reported by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year, according to the IC3’s fifth-annual Internet Crime Report.
Dan Kaplan Apr 10 2006 9:31PM Security
FTC shuts down California spam distributor

FTC shuts down California spam distributor

Federal and state investigators have sealed the envelope on a major California-based spam operation that allegedly violated federal law when it delivered nearly two million messages to unsuspecting PC users.
Dan Kaplan Apr 7 2006 8:50PM Security
Hoosiers warned about fake Chase Bank scam site

Hoosiers warned about fake Chase Bank scam site

Indiana's attorney general is warning state residents about a phishing attack in which an email claiming to be from Chase Bank offers customers $20 to complete an online survey and provide personal information.
Dan Kaplan Apr 6 2006 9:38PM Security
Postini: Spam and IM attacks up, mail viruses down

Postini: Spam and IM attacks up, mail viruses down

Spam and instant messaging (IM) attacks increased in March, while the number of viruses declined, according to message management provider Postini.
Dan Kaplan Apr 6 2006 7:21PM Security
New York again sues alleged spyware corporation

New York again sues alleged spyware corporation

New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is going after internet fraudsters again, this time suing a Manhattan spyware company for allegedly installing millions of pop-up advertisements on customers’ PCs.
Dan Kaplan Apr 5 2006 8:08PM Security
OS X firmware flaw fixed

OS X firmware flaw fixed

Apple this week issued its third security update of the year, this one correcting a flaw in firmware that could allow some Mac OS X user passwords to be bypassed.
Dan Kaplan Apr 4 2006 9:11PM Security
Are American firms ready for wireless?

Are American firms ready for wireless?

Businesses have cited security concerns as the primary reason not to deploy wireless and remote computers, a new global survey has found.
Dan Kaplan Apr 4 2006 8:01PM Security
New IE flaw has faster payload

New IE flaw has faster payload

Hackers now are employing new software to more quickly exploit a highly critical Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability.
Dan Kaplan Apr 3 2006 9:39PM Security
One in 33 homes experience ID theft

One in 33 homes experience ID theft

About 3 percent of the nation’s households were victims of identity theft during a six-month period in 2004, losing about $3.2 billion to fraudsters, the U.S. Justice Department announced Sunday.
Dan Kaplan Apr 3 2006 8:15PM Security
Secret Service goes public on cybercrime crackdown

Secret Service goes public on cybercrime crackdown

The U.S. Secret Service has publicized an ongoing undercover operation targeting people who steal personal information and create malicious software to sell it in online forums.
Dan Kaplan Mar 31 2006 10:53PM Security
MySpace target of hybrid phishing scheme

MySpace target of hybrid phishing scheme

Users of the immensely popular MySpace.com social networking website are being targeted in a new "hybrid" phishing scheme aimed at stealing their identity, one security firm warned today.
Dan Kaplan Mar 30 2006 11:11PM Security
Three Florida bank servers hacked

Three Florida bank servers hacked

An investigation continues into the hacking of three Florida banks' web servers.
Dan Kaplan Mar 29 2006 10:38PM Security
Joker dealt a DDoS attack

Joker dealt a DDoS attack

Domain registrar Joker.com has fallen victim to a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, affecting not only the site itself but also the domains on the company’s name servers.
Dan Kaplan Mar 28 2006 11:09PM Security
Trojan-creating couple gets prison time

Trojan-creating couple gets prison time

An Israeli couple that created a trojan that helped Israeli companies spy on each other were sentenced to prison today, several media outlets reported.
Dan Kaplan Mar 27 2006 11:17PM Security
Quartet nabbed for Nigerian inheritance scam

Quartet nabbed for Nigerian inheritance scam

Four men have been indicted on federal charges they masterminded a Nigerian get-rich-quick spam scheme that netted the alleged fraudsters more than $1 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Dan Kaplan Mar 24 2006 10:23PM Security

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