Monday, June 2nd, 2008 An OECD study into online crime says that increased activity by cyber criminals has left an estimated one-in-four US computers infected with malware.The report, entitled Malicious Software (malware): a Security Threat to the Internet Economy, gives an impression of two worlds engaged in an uneven war of virus invasion and ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 You don’t have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack. A researcher this week will demonstrate a PDOS attack that can take place remotely.A PDOS attack damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. Unlike ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Over the weekend, a number of network administrators issued warnings over an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of attempts to guess the username and password of systems running secure shell (SSH), the encrypted access method that replaced the common telnet service. System administrators at universities and some companies have reported ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites.The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...
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