Friday, May 9th, 2008
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday issued a warning about a phishing campaign designed to steal personal information from consumers using the promise of a tax rebate check as bait.IC3 is jointly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Google Adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks.
On the face of it, the scam follows a traditional attack route involving the sending of spam e-mail to random ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The fundamental problem with two factor (2FA) session authentication is that the approach is vulnerable to Man in the Middle and Man in the Browser attacks. 2FA requires that customers present not only a password (something they know) when they log into online banking, but also demonstrate that they possess ...
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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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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Our friends from RSA have recently reported about the latest one-two punch employed by the infamous Rock Phish gang (also reported here and here ). Best known for their easy-to-use kits that yield professional looking phishing pages, Rock Phish now adds information-stealing malware — dubbed as the Zeus Trojan — ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
It works seamlessly with any hardware and operating system combination supporting USB keyboards such as Windows, MacOS, Linux and others. The Key generates and sends unique time-variant authentication codes by emulating keystrokes through the standard keyboard interface. The computer to which the Key is attached receives this authentication code character ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Opera 9.5 Beta 2 has stepped up its security game. The browser has added fraud protection and support for EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates to help prevent identity theft.
Opera’s move to join the EV SSL crowd leaves Safari as the only browser without anti-phishing protection. As you ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later this year in one of its domains.
ICANN officials said the organization ...
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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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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
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