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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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
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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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
IT and security control firm Sophos is urging internet users to take the Sophos Spam Pledge and put an end to the significant problems that many businesses face on a daily basis, as spam marks its 30th anniversary today. The first ever spam message was sent on 1st May ...
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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
(Source: Sunbelt Software) The volume of spam e-mails sent has increased exponentially during recent years, and so has the cost of dealing with that spam. This paper will examine the ways in which spam can impact an organization's profits and outline the criteria to consider when choosing an anti-spam ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Our columnist shows you how to get rid of spyware, shrug off spam, and stay safe on unsecured public networks.
Viruses, spyware, and worms. Oh, my!
We all know the dangers inherent in accessing the Internet, and we all take precautions. Yet our PCs still occasionally get infected because we can't know ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Following a friendly heads up from someone yesterday morning, I re-loaded the
following Kraken samples into my honeypot:
1d51463150db06bc098fef335bc64971
65b958bf6f5eddca3d9455354af08b6f
6ec7d67d5553cbec2a99c7fbe385a729
7ecef2f126e66e7270afa7b803f715bc
8fd8c67103ec073d9303a7fbc702f89a
and began monitoring them. Each sample proceeded to update itself;
the updated binary is around 160KB, given a random name and
placed in the system32 directory, and no longer has an imagefile icon.
The names/MD5 values of ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The rate at which Internet security company Sophos detected infected Web pages nearly tripled in the first quarter of 2008, the company said.
In its Q1 08 threat report released Monday, Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw ...
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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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