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- My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer
- With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Vista/7, software, McAfee Inc., AV Software, Malwarebytes
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- 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
- Microsoft's Bing invaded by pharmaceutical scammers
- Rogue online pharmacies have found a way to exploit Bing's advertising program. According to a recently released report by KnujOn and LegitScript, 90% of the Bing sponsored pharmacy ads were rogue ones, shipping counterfeit prescription drugs, with the bogus companies participating part of larger affiliate networks like...
- Tags: Advertisement, Pharmacy, Microsoft Corp., Scammer, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Is Your IT Shop Mature Enough for Cloud Computing?
- Is Your IT Shop Mature Enough for Cloud Computing?Still in the knowledge part of the curveI have been researching a lot of different cloud technologies and some of the things I have seen have started to give me some hope this tech might someday be ready for prime time.The biggest...
- Tags: SECURITY, IT-Shop Mature, information technology, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- A Good Year for Security Collaboration
- Guest Editorial by George Stathakopoulos It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat. Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conficker Working Group, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Should "Standard User" be the default in Windows 7?
- Should "Standard User" be the default in Windows 7?Nopeit's one more example of how MS and usability are mutually exclusive. OS X has been able to implement credential checks effectively.Oh, and just to forestall the inevitable strawman about OS X now being a swiss cheese OS, the purpose of credentials...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, UAC, standard user, admin account, Microsoft Windows 7, security
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Report: Conficker in attack mode
- Report: Conficker in attack modeI was concerned.For a moment there I thought this wasn't business as usual.How many companies went under?I wonder how many companies are put out of businessdue to the software flaws in Windows?RE: Report: Conficker in attack mode*yawn*RE: Report: Conficker in attack modeI am dissecting conficker.eIf you...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Conficker, attack mode, virus creator, virus
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Firefox gets emergency update to fix the last update
- Firefox gets emergency update to fix the last updateFixed ! Open Source in Action......Open Source fixed it...include the version # so good of you to include the version that was a problem. I thought info like that would be automatically provided by people at zdnet or wired. you guys are...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, emergency update, Mozilla Corp., FIREFOX IS, Microsoft Corp., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative
- NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Fake "Conficker Infection Alert" spam campaign circulating
- Researchers at Marshal8e6's TRACElabs have intercepted a spam campaign that's issuing bogus "Conficker Infection Alerts" and redirecting users to rogue security software upon clicking on the links. The event-based social engineering campaign is also impersonating various Microsoft security departments in order to improve its truthfulness. This is...
- Tags: Infection, Domain, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Microsoft's intelligence security report: The top 5 takeaways
- Microsoft on Wednesday will unveil its sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tome---all 184 pages of it---has a lot of interesting data points culled from the software giant's antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a bigger issue than hacking...
- Tags: Software, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Corp., Security Software, Win32/Renos, Win32/FakeSecSen, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- So I followed all the prompts in AV 360
- AV360 is a fun little piece of malware that looks to the average end user like an anti-malware program. It's not exactly new, but it certainly seems to be making the rounds. Most commercial anti-malware software doesn't catch it, although we haven't had any problems at sites with...
- Tags: Credit Card, Malware, Duck, AV360, Sales Channel, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Sales, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions
- SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisionsAt least they're talking to the vendors first.Now if only the CAs will get off their butts and implement some changes...RE: SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisionsпиздёж ёбана, автору фапать 25 разRE: SSL broken! Hackers create rogue...
- Tags: SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, Network security, SECURITY, MD5, Computer Associates International Inc., SSL, collision
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
- Google sponsored links spreading (scareware) rogue AV
- Malware hunters at Websense Security Labs have discovered legitimate Google sponsored links being used to plant scareware programs (rogue anti-virus applications) on the computers of Windows users. In a blow-by-blow description of the rogueware attack, Websense researcher Elad Sharf shows how an innocent Google search for the...
- Tags: Google Inc., WinRar, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Advanced Task Manager 5.0 (Windows)
- Advanced Task Manager is a program that focuses on keeping your computer secure and helping you find and disable spyware rapidly. Advanced Task Manager shows you exactly what is running on your computer, including the hidden processes. You can view the details of each process, including a security rating and...
- Tags: Program, Internet Server, Innovative Solutions, Advanced Task Manager, Internet, Productivity, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-11-26
- Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts
- The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we've already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the popular social networking site is currently under attack from spammers that are automatically registering thousands of bogus...
- Tags: Bebo, Spammer, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals
- Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...
- Tags: Program, Pharmaceutical Company, Pharmacy, Affiliates, Wire Cost, MarkMonitor, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Tags: Web servers, Servers, Web service, server, Web server, Murph, Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Tags: Identity Thief, Asprox, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Financial Services, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
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