Secure Tomorrow

Pretty much anyone who has ever been unemployed in the past 10 years, probably has set up an account on Monster.com at one time or another. Symantec is reporting they found a new Trojan called Infostealer.Monstres. It’s sole purpose seems to use compromised employer accounts to harvest personal information of anyone who has a visible job profile on Monster. At the time of discovery by Symantec, the remote server collecting the hacked information had already collected 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousand people.

I have included a link to the full article if you are interested in reading all the details. I will leave you with a great bit of knowledge from the article, which I can not emphasize the importance of enough.

“To protect your identity when using recruitment sites, or at least limit your exposure to identity theft, you should limit the contact information you post on these sites, use a separate disposable email address and never disclose sensitive details such as your Social Security number, passport or driver’s license numbers, bank account information, etc to prospective employers until you have established they are legitimate.”

Full Article Link

Kevin Blanchard hackers, identity theft, Monster, trojan

I know the blog has been neglected a tad. I am still in the trenches working on security issues but in an Operations environment now. A much different environment to the Engineering and R&D environments I had been doing my security work in during the past several years. I hope to be able to at least do weekly posts in here sharing or discussing current security related issues with my readers.

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