Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Just over 4% of all Web sites are dangerous, according to a new report. But all bad sites aren’t created equal: Cyber bad guys are more likely to build their sites where it’s easy to do so.The report out today from McAfee, a tech-security company that’s trying to position itself ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Trend Micro Monday announced a line of desktop and server security products intended for small to midsize businesses.Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 represents a re-branding of Trend's SMB client/server messaging security product line plus upgrades that integrate features such as behavior-based antimalware monitoring and an option for in-the-cloud Web security services ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites.The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008 This is not good. Researchers from INSERT found a vulnerability in the Gmail engine that could allow spammers to forward mail through Google, thereby bypassing blacklists and being accepted by whitelists. It works by using the same forwarding features that allow users, myself included, to forward their email through ...
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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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