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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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site.
An increasing number of MySpace profiles contain a few lines of code that automatically subscribe people to the profile's video channel, said Chris Boyd, security research manager for FaceTime Communications.
After ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Over the last few years, security researchers have estimated that fake messages from PayPal and its parent company, eBay, make up more than half of all the spam sent over the Internet. So why, you may ask, isn't PayPal doing something about it?
Last week at the RSA 2008 conference ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
If you don't have security software, your PC is an Internet mugging waiting to happen. We show you the eleven best pieces of software for defending yourself against online thugs.
The PC security landscape is constantly changing. Well paid, malicious programmers keep cranking out new and different attacks, and the security ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Panos Anastassiadis didn't click on the fake subpoena that popped into his inbox on Monday morning, but he runs a computer security company. Others were not so lucky.
In fact, security researchers say that thousands have fallen victim to an email scam in which senior managers such as Anastassiadis are told ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Google on Friday said that it has been testing ways to index data that is normally hidden to search engine crawlers, a change that should improve the breadth of information available through Google.
The so-called "hidden Web" that Google has begun indexing refers to data beyond static Web pages, such as Web ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.
Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, said the bot broke Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
First it was do-it-yourself malware and phishing toolkits, then it was specialized sites selling stolen FTP credentials and credit card accounts, and now it’s the next phase in cybercrime: crimeware as a service.
Researchers at Finjan, MarkMonitor, and Trend Micro are among those seeing a new cybercrime business model, where ...
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