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- Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans
- the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Thousands of web sites compromised, redirect to scareware
- Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software, commonly referred to as scareware. by Dancho Danchev
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Security, Web, Web Site, Search, Web Site Development, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites
- Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Malwarebytes accuses rival of software theft
- Malwarebytes claims IObit stole from its database of malware samples that its software uses to detect malware on customer computers. Malwarebytes is accusing China-based computer security firm IObit of intellectual property theft, but IObit denied the allegations and said there were problems with its malware submission site....
- Tags: Software, Malware, Malwarebytes, IObit, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Viruses And Worms, Security, Management, copyright, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Elinor Mills CNET News
- News items 2009-11-03
- iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded
- ... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...
- Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?
- With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Campaign, Cybercriminal, Search, Marketing Research, Strategy, Security, Marketing, Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Rogue security programs are 'ongoing threat'
- The sites of these 'rogue security programs'Should be immediately shut down when they are found, by doing a DDoS attack if necessary.There is no reason to allow these bastards to shill their break-ware on the rest of us in the world.Getting worse...I've seen a hugh increase in infections from these...
- Tags: rogue security program, ad system, security program, Rogue security program, advertisement, ongoing threat, security, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware
- Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network
- Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Personal finance, SECURITY, network, trojan horse, online banking, bank, virus
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- New botnet hides commands as JPEG images
- What, that's it?That's it for this article? No mention of how prolific it is; what defenses might exist; how to check for it's presence; anything?Without more information, you're fear-mongering. Next time, just type "Boo!".What, that's it? "Without more information, you're fear-mongering. Next time, just type "Boo!"."I think its called, getting...
- Tags: BotNet, JPEG, botnet, JPEG Images
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- News to know: Dell; Xerox, Android, NewEgg, Win7, Windows Mobile,
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle Gallery: Hands on with the Dell...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Storage, Andrew Nusca, Newegg.com, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Dell Latitude, EC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Malware affiliate bounty: Infect a Mac, earn 43 cents
- It's just what Apple deserves.Apple has long implied that its OS and software are inherently immune to attack. It's about time it and Mac owners were brought up short.It has begun...Now to see how long it will take before the Mac is as beset by malware as Windows.RE: Malware affiliate...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Viruses and worms, bounty, Apple Macintosh, malware, Microsoft Windows, security
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- From Gimmiv to Conficker: The lucrative MS08-067 flaw
- GENEVA -- The critical MS08-067 vulnerability used by the Conficker worm to build a powerful botnet continues to be a lucrative security hole for cyber criminals. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference here, a trio of Microsoft researchers dissected the malware attacks linked to...
- Tags: Flaw, Malware, Conficker, MS08-067, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Doctor Antivirus 2008 (The ultimate guide to scareware protection)
- ScamsI have seen many of these screens before, on my own PC. I usually retreat to AVG, Norton, or Symantec sites to check their claims, do online scans, and Google search to find unhappy "users"RE: Doctor Antivirus 2008 The ultimate guide to scareware protectionthere ought to be laws... even so...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, antivirus, SpyBot, ultimate guide, TrendMicro RUBotted, Trend Micro Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- STasks Process Manager 1.8 (Windows)
- AntiSpyware, AntiTrojan, AntiVirus - small and powerful soft. Working as manager of Windows Tasks with allow and deny list of processes and applications. The most important is to populate right the allow and deny list to have a good security. What you must to check when the STasks software show...
- Tags: Window, Microsoft Windows, Virus, SaschArt, STasks, Windows Service, Construction, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms
- Software downloads 2009-09-13
- 9/11 related keywords hijacked to serve scareware
- Anticipating the logical peak of 9/11 related keywords on the 8th anniversary of the attacks, cybercriminals have hijacked the trending topic by occupying thousands of related keywords for the purpose of serving fake security software. None of the sites are currently marked as harmful by the SafeBrowsing...
- Tags: Campaign, Malware, 9/11 Commission, Keyword, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Give me one good reason not to just move them all to Linux
- RE: Give me one good reason not to just move them all to LinuxAs a roaming tech helper and trainer, I completely concur. Over the past few years, I have moved quite a few of my clients to Mac or Linux and they couldn't be happier. And lately, the infestation...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Linux, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
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