Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 New research by IT security and control firm Sophos has identified Blogger (www.blogspot.com) as the leading host for malware. The popular blogging service now accounts for 2 percent of all of the world's malware hosted on the web.Attacks on Blogger involve hackers either setting up malicious blogs on the service, ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Spammers have never balked at using Web forms as a way of sending out spam messages–anything to expose their wares. Basically they will look for a public Web server that allows them to provide feedback or information to a certain company. These Web forms require them to fill up certain ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008 Roaring Penguin Software says its research shows that the proportion of email coming from Google Mail accounts that is spam has almost quadrupled, from 7 to 27 per cent. This means that more than one email message in four coming from a Google Mail account was classified as spam, which ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Working closely with the German hosting company – manitu, heise is making available with immediate effect a realtime DNS-based blacklist service for identifying weak SSL keys. The provider already runs the Realtime Blacklist for the iX spam filter NiX Spam, which enables mail servers to identify and filter spam.The principle ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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