Monday, May 5th, 2008
So you want to bank safely online? Then ditch your computer and make the transaction via your cell phone instead.
Using a mobile handset for this most sensitive online act might sound counterintuitive, given that phones are prone to being lost or stolen, but your cell phone might actually be safer ...
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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
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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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Cybercriminals have created a global business with a supply chain every bit as organized and sophisticated as that of any legitimate business. The difference is that cybercrime takes advantage of unsuspecting consumers and insecure businesses to steal untold amounts of money.
According to security experts and spam fighters speaking at a ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Anti Keylogger Shield is a powerful, easy to use anti-spy software tool that prohibits operation of any keylogger, either know or unknown, professional or custom made. Once installed, Anti Keylogger Shield will run silently in your System Tray, block the system mechanisms that are exploited by keyloggers, and protect your ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
This afternoon, we got a highly customized email purporting to come from the IRS, which of course, does nothing more than load malware.
The email is made out to a key financial contact here at Sunbelt (name obfuscated for this post).
As you can see, it’s quite convincing. (Incidentally, “Sunbelt Software Distribution, ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
A British security researcher has demonstrated a "biologging" system for intercepting biometric authentication data, warning that attacks on biometric systems could become relatively straightforward if current practices don't change.
Matthew Lewis, of London-based Information Risk Management, demonstrated a proof-of-concept biologger last week at Black Hat Amsterdam and released the tool's source ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, we received a CHM, or Windows Help file, embedded in e-mail as part of a targeted attack campaign against an NGO. Virus detection was near zero. On Virustotal.com, two solutions actually flagged it as malicious.
After decompiling the CHM file, which you can easily do using tools ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Researchers say that small devices called "JitterBugs" could piggyback onto network connections to discreetly send passwords and other sensitive data over the Internet.
Like the current keylogger hardware used by the FBI and criminals alike to record passwords and other data, JitterBugs are small devices that attach to a keyboard and ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hackers are likely to release more than 6000 keylogging programs this year--up 65 percent from the number in 2004--according to Reston, Virginia, security vendor iDefense. Such software illegally records every keystroke pressed on a victim's PC and then transmits the data to the hacker, making it an effective way to ...
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