Monday, May 5th, 2008
Researchers have discovered a new, complex spam attack that uses a sophisticated ruse to fool users into downloading malware.
The exploit, which researchers at BitDefender call "a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity," features spam messages that claim to contain links to videos. When users try to click and see the video, ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
As if computer viruses and worms aren't enough of a nuisance, malicious hardware, which will be much more difficult to detect, could soon become a threat too.
Today, computer viruses, which are programs downloaded either as an email attachment or when someone visits a website, are responsible for most computer attacks. ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The notorious Rock Phish gang has added a new twist to its phishing exploits that doesn’t require its victim to visit a malicious Website -- instead, it just loads a malicious keylogging Trojan onto the victim’s machine that steals information or credentials.
Both Trend Microand F-Secure over the past few days ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites.
Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.
AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The number of online threats will have grown tenfold by the end of 2007, according to researchers at anti-malware firm Kaspersky.
Kaspersky analysts said at Infosec Europe 2008 that new malicious programs recorded on the internet, including viruses, worms and Trojans, amounted to 2.2 million in 2007, representing a fourfold increase ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Is your PC infected with malware? Panda Security says it is, and they're putting their money where their mouth is. Submit to their free online scan and be found totally malware-free, and your company could bring in a cool $7,500. Or, if you're a consumer and you clear the scan, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Panos Anastassiadis didn't click on the fake subpoena that popped into his inbox on Monday morning, but he runs a computer security company. Others were not so lucky.
In fact, security researchers say that thousands have fallen victim to an email scam in which senior managers such as Anastassiadis are told ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Security service provider Secunia has discovered a vulnerability in the ClamAV open source virus scanner. Attackers can foist code on the appliction using manipulated EXE files.
According a Secunia advisory, a boundary error in the cli_scanpe() function in libclamav/pe.c can cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Manipulated PE executables (Windows .exe files) ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The first thing is to isolate the computer (no more trading floppies until you're done) and then begin to disinfect it.
One of my favorite tools is Knoppix. The great thing about this Linux distribution is that you don't have to know anything about Linux in order to be able to ...
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