Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Panda, an antivirus software company, has a new free Panda USB Vaccine available for download that can disable the Windows Autorun feature for an entire PC or a particular USB drive.The Autorun feature in Windows can make it easier to install software - and it can also be exploited by ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Win32/Koobface is a worm that may spread when a user logs into their profile account on the Internet social network sites MySpace, Facebook and others. The following system changes may indicate the presence of this malware:Addition of the following files:%windir%\bolivar19.exe
%windir%\bolivar31.exe
%windir%\bolivar30.exe
%windir%\ld01.exe
%windir%\che08.exe
%windir%\freddy35.exeAnd/or the getting the following message box:March's edition of the Malicious Software Removal ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009 War-dialing is back, and it's not limited to finding modems anymore. Renowned researcher HD Moore is putting the final touches on his latest project -- a telephone auditing tool that also finds PBXes, dial tones, voicemail, faxes, and other phone line connections for security assessment, research, or inventory.This is not ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009 CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009 This tool provides a demonstration of the HTTPS stripping attacks that was presented at Black Hat DC 2009. It will transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links. It also supports modes ...
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