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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
- Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware
- An ongoing spam campaign is once again attempting to impersonate Microsoft's security team -- the same campaign was first seen in April -- by mass mailing Conficker.B Infection Alerts (install.zip), which upon execution drop a sample of the Antivirus Pro 2010 scareware. Whereas the theme remains the...
- Tags: Infection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Internet, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics
- Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter's trending topics....
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Spamming, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- 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
- iPhone, QuickTime bitten by security bugs
- Ryan, can you explain that? [was: Liars! This is Teh Unpossible!!]Wonder why these have not been tagged with the word "gaping" in the title? Weird.Does QuickTime have any secure code in it?I must say that I'm impressed with how many gaping security holes Apple has managed to cram into a...
- Tags: Patches, Operating systems, Apple QuickTime, Apple iPhone, security bug, Apple Inc., vulnerability, security, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- WordPress blogs at risk from worm
- Upgrade speed2.8.4 has been out for about a month. If you haven't upgraded by now, you're asking for it. My upgrade window for security updates is 24 hours. Easy for us geeks to say, but most end users don't know or care what version they're on - they leave this...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Channel management, SECURITY, Wordpress, Wordpress Blogs, Joomla, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- The Web's most dangerous keywords to search for
- Which is the most dangerous keyword to search for using public search engines these days? It's "screensavers" with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent, according to McAfee's recently released report "The Web's Most Dangerous Search Terms". Upon searching for 2,658 unique popular keywords and phrases across 413,368...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Cybercriminal, Keyword, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Mysterious virus strikes FBI
- Mysterious virus strikes FBICan you please explain ...... what the FBI is doing wrong?thx^o^It's started!ye has just started another nonsense session and as usual it promises to be long, very looooooong.Malware that results from social engineeringDoesn't normally mass-infect computers in a single location. Odds are very good this is a...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Federal government, Operating systems, UNIX, Viruses and worms, virus, Linux, FBI, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery
- If you ever wanted to take an inside view of targeted-botnets primarily run by novice cybercriminals sometimes utilizing outdated, but very effective methods - this ZDNet photo gallery is for you. It offers an inside view of those "beneath the radar" botnets that never make the news....
- Tags: Spamming, Cybercriminal, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Tored-A email worm for Mac OS X called "lame"
- Tored-A email worm for Mac OS X called "lame"Heheheh"but what does cause me to toss and turn at night is that the era of Apple?s ?security by obscurity? may be coming to an end"Are you wringing you hands while doing it...I'm actually rocking back in forth in a balled mass...
- Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Tored-A email worm, operating system, OSX, Apple Mac OS, malware, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Swine flu email scams circulating
- Opportunistic scammers and spammers are actively exploiting the swine flu buzz across the web by spamvertising links to pharmaceutical scams, and bogus 'Swine Flu Survival Guides' using search engine optimization of typosquatted domains related to the outbreak. The event-based social engineering campaign is similar to the recent...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Outbreak, Cybercriminal, SARS, Cyberthreats, Spam, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Search, Marketing Research, Security, Spam And Phishing, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Mac malware not a big deal - yet
- Mac malware not a big deal - yetNot your daddys hackersThese attacks were clumsy and unsophisticated. Merely a fake keygen program which installed an easily detectable service. This is what attacks looked like in 1995.Which leads me to suspect that this is not one of the highly sophisticated groups attacking...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, ONLY WIndows, Apple Macintosh, operating system, attack, Apple Mac OS X, security, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet
- ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...
- Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Worms Forts Demo 1.0 (Windows)
- Worms Forts: Under Siege puts you in command of a team of up to four fort-dwelling worms. In the game, you can direct your worm garrison to construct defenses, expand your castle to seize valuable resources, and build weapons of mass destruction to destroy your opponents. Test yourself against the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Worm, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2008-08-05
- XSS worm at Justin.tv infects 2,525 profiles
- A XSS worm was crawling across Justin.tv, the popular lifecasting platform at the end of June, details of the incident emerged in the middle of last week. Basically, the group that found the XSS vulnerability abused it for the purpose of generating the following graph as a proof of concept,...
- Tags: Vulnerability, XSS, Worm, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers
- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losersNokia Symbian - What's in a name?Heads up! It looks like Nokia's product naming consultants did not do their homework for similar names with other mental images and associations. Check out www.sybian.com. Or, how about the Symbionese Liberation Party that kidnapped Patty...
- Tags: Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Cellular phones, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
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