4/9/08

Infragard Hawaii co-sponsors along with the FBI, the new Internet Safety Awards. The gala showcase event took place at the Leeward Community College Theater on April 9, 2008 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

4/8/08

Infragard Hawaii welcomes Sheri Donahue, Managing Director, Infragard National Member's Alliance.

Jodi Ito/VP, Chris Duque/Pres,Cheri Donahue & son, Ryan	Arnold Laanui, FBI Coordinator, Cheri Donahue, Kawika Talisman, Infragard Webmaster

6/6/07

On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 there will be another General Membership Meeting. Here's the
meeting information:

June 6, 2007 - 5:00 pm
Pagoda Hotel - Cest Cest Bon Room
1525 Rycroft Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96814

4/27/07

On Friday April 27, at 4:30PM our next General Membership Meeting
will take place on the UH Campus, Kuykendall Hall - Room 210.

5/24/06

Wireless War Drive is a big success in Honolulu, Read about the entire project by downloading
the PDF HERE.

1.17.05

Recent History of FBI's fight against Cyber Crime

This article on the FBI's public site has some very interesting information on what the FBI has been doing to
fight Cyber Crime including a breakout of the Interagency departments.

Internet2 Consortium Sets New Internet Speed Record.

The Internet2 consortium announced that a research team based at the University of Tokyo set a new IPv4 transmission speed record in November. The team successfully sent a multiple stream data transmission with a transfer rate of 7.21 gigabits per second over a distance of 20,645 kilometers " more than half the circumference of the earth.

1.14.05

FBI snags Tsunami Scammer

A Pittsburgh man arrested by the FBI is the first American to be grabbed for running a tsunami-related scam. Separately, more than 110 tsunami-related phishing schemes have been identified since the disaster struck Dec. 26.

11.12.04

"How a Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network"

The article on "How a Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network" is excellent because it is Microsoft showing how their applications might be exploited:

1. Paths used to infiltrate networks.
2. What patching and version states reveal.
3. IIS and SQL injection attacks.
4. Dangers of elevated privileges.

11.5.04

Two guilty in first felony spam conviction

A jury has convicted a brother and sister of violating a new anti-spam law that makes spamming a felony.

11.1.04

Secret Service Busts Cyber Gangs

Operation Firewall nets 28 suspects allegedly involved in online fraud and conspiracy.
The U.S. Secret Service Thursday announced arrests in eight states and six foreign countries of 28 suspected cybercrime gangsters on charges of identity theft, computer fraud, credit-card fraud, and conspiracy.

10/7/04

North Korea ready to launch cyber war

North Korea has trained more than 500 computer hackers
capable of launching cyber warfare against the United
States, South Korea's defense ministry says. In a
report to the National Assembly's National Defense
Committee, the ministry said that hackers from the
impoverished Stalinist state were among the best in
the world.



S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers

"The Financial Times is reporting that North Korea's
military and intel services have trained as many as
600 computer hackers specifically for attacks against
South Korea, Japan, and the US. South Korea claims
that the north has a five- year university program for
hacker training and cites recent attacks on government
computer systems.

Hackers Attack Dutch Government Web Sites

Several Dutch government Web sites remained offline
Tuesday after an attack by hackers protesting
unpopular policies of the right-wing Cabinet, the
government said. In what is known as a
denial-of-service attack, the hackers continually made
fake requests for information from the Web sites,
effectively shutting out legitimate users, a
government statement said.

More on Dutch attack:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6185657/

WorldPay struggles under DDoS attack (again)

WorldPay, the Royal Bank of Scotland's internet
payment transaction outfit, is continuing to fight a
sustained internet attack which has left its services
largely unavailable for a third successive day. Since
Saturday (2 October), WorldPay's online payment and
administration system has been reduced to a crawl, due
to a malicious DDoS attack by unidentified computer
criminals. A spokesman for the company stressed that
although is fighting a serious "denial-of-service"
attack, its systems is uncompromised and customer data
remains secure.

"Second chance" fraud at Ebay

Scammers are impersonating eBay sellers in an attempt
to hoodwink users of the online auction site into
handing over payment for non-existent goods. If the
person who wins an auction on the site doesn't pay up,
the second highest bidder of an auction may be offered
the option to purchase goods at his offer price. These
"second chance offers" are the focus of the fraudulent
scams.

9/24/04

Phishing Scams Up With A Vengeance

Phishing attacks were back up in June, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) said Tuesday, and the scams that continue to plague users and steal millions from financial institutions climbed to all-time records. For the year so far, phishing has been growing about 52 percent per month. No wonder the scams are getting the attention of users and the financial organizations victimized by the attacks.

9/23/04

Great article on "Phishing"

This informative piece was submitted by Detective. Chris DUQUE, White Collar Crime Unit
Honolulu Police Department and InfraGard Hawaii member.

9/9/04

Microsoft Doubles Blocking Time For SP2

Microsoft has doubled the time that businesses can block Windows
XP SP2 from downloading automatically, giving them until mid-April to test the update.

Math mystery is prime threat to online security.

Scientists at a conference in the United Kingdom have warned of serious repercussions for e-commerce and cryptography from the possible resolution of a 150-year old mathematical theory. In a paper published in June, Louis de Branges claimed to have proved the Riemann hypothesis, which seeks to explain the apparently random pattern of prime numbers.

Such numbers are the key to Internet cryptography, which is used to secure Web transactions. Proof of the hypothesis would mean that all cryptic codes could be breakable, so no Internet transaction would be safe.

Speaking at the British Association science festival in Exeter on Tuesday, September 7, Professor Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University, said "the whole of e-commerce depends on prime numbers.

If the Riemann hypothesis is true...the proof should give us more understanding of how the primes work. If it does, it will bring the whole of e-commerce to its knees, overnight. So there are very big implications."

9/3/04

Leaner Longhorn Will Delay Microsoft Business Framework
The vendor confirmed that the delay in the release of its
next-generation file system will also push back the release of
the Windows programming layer.

8/31/04

FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia
A Massachusetts businessman allegedly paid members of the computer underground to launch organized, crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against three of his competitors, in what federal officials are calling the first criminal case to arise from a DDoS-for-hire scheme.

8/30/04

Feds Crack Down On Cybercrime
A new aggressive stance against illegal file sharing, combined with a dragnet against spammers, defines the
Justice Department's proactive stance against cybercrime.

DOJ Accuses Six With Crippling Rivals' Web Sites
Authorities detail the nation's first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.

Banks Gear Up For Check-Imaging Era
Viewpointe Archive Services, a joint venture among four banks, is getting ready to enable banks to exchange images
of checks instead of paper.Email Webmaster

Get Ready To Patch
Installing patches to fix application and system flaws is still a major chore for businesses. With Microsoft's XP SP2, they face their biggest challenge.

IE Flaw Affects Windows XP SP2 Systems
The "highly criticial" vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 on fully patched PCs running either Windows XP SP1 or the newer SP2.

8/30/04

Infragard Hawaii unveils its new website.

1/29/04

The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unveiled the National Cyber Alert System, an operational system delivering to Americans timely and actionable information to better secure their computer systems.

The National Cyber Alert System includes various informational products for cyber threats, warnings, and responses, as well as best practices and tips, that individuals and companies may subscribe to receive via the website at http://www.us-cert.gov.