Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Phishers are doing their homework. The conventional way is to ask users to update their accounts by asking them to click a certain link. A phishing email usually displays legitimate URL or a hyperlink. Upon clicking, the user will be redirected to the phishing Web site.But now, there’s no URL ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008 Clever mnemonics aside, last week we have seen another large scale SQL injection attack (or YAMSIA, if you prefer), this time being orchestrated by a botnet that has become known as Asprox—but first, a history lesson.The code behind the Asprox botnet seems to have been around for quite some time ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Google on Tuesday said it is now using an e-mail authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9985605-7.html?hhTest∂=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 The problem began when Microsoft on Tuesday sent patch number KB951748 to Windows users. The patch is designed to plug a security vulnerability that leaves computers vulnerable to so-called DNS attacks.The vulnerability is widespread and affects products made by numerous networking and software vendors beyond Microsoft. It was discovered by ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 US-CERT and other security experts have warned of a critical design problem affecting all DNS implementations. The Domain Name Service is responsible for converting readable names like www.heise-online.co.uk into the IP addresses that computers can handle, such as 193.99.144.85. DNS is thus the internet equivalent to a phonebook and without ...
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