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
8fd8c67103ec073d9303a7fbc702f89aand 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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Friday, April 18th, 2008 A bot is a computer program installed on a compromised machine which offers an attacker a remote control mechanism. Botnets, i.e., networks of such bots under a common control infrastructure, pose a severe threat to today’s Internet: Botnets are commonly used for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, sending of spam, or ...
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