Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Security Fix has often lamented the lack of decent point-and-click software tools to help Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser users kill insecure "ActiveX controls," plug-ins for IE that have traditionally been among the biggest avenues of attack from spyware and adware. That's why I'm pleased to call attention to a ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A 19-year-old hacker is agreeing to plead guilty to masterminding a botnet to obtain thousands of victims' personal data in an anonymous scheme a federal cybercrime official described Friday as the nation's first such attack in which peer-to-peer software was the "infection point."The defendant, Jason Michael Milmont, launched the assault ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
In an update to our June 20th post referring to Grisoft’s AVG anti-virus product spewing fake traffic (in our opinion a flawed architecture design by the company’s CTO, Karel Obluk). Cade Metz, of The Register, has delved a bit deeper into the issue, and has discovered that over last weekend, ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Usually, I don't have two calls for packets on a shift, but this one definately bears looking into and hopefully finding an answer. There is an increase on port 502, when you look at the targets, that started today. Till today, life has been pretty quiet on that ...
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