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- Inside the botnets that never make the news
- This gallery offers an inside view of those "beneath the radar" botnets that never make the news. The images have been collected throughout the past year by using open source intelligence, namely, by either joining the command and control IRC channel upon infection, or monitoring ongoing communications between the botnet...
- Image galleries 2009-05-20
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- Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attack
- Yesterday I posted that staff at Solid Oak were targeted with attack emails by sources unknown. Solid Oak is the maker of CyberSitter -- which was clearly purloined by the developers of Green Dam. At that point it wasn't clear that the questionable emails were definitely...
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware
- The Twitter account belonging to venture capitalist and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki was hijacked yesterday and used to push malware to some 140,000 Twitter users. The attack screenshot above included a link to what purported to be a "sex tape video free download" linked to Gossip...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs
- A well-known security researcher plans to use the month of July to expose serious vulnerabilities in the Twitter ecosystem. The Month of Twitter Bugs, a project which launches on July 1, is the handiwork of Aviv Raff left, a researcher known for his work on Web-based security...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites
- Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown
- Following last week's shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert's operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo's shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn't seem...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming
- Microsoft plans to ship 10 security bulletins next Tuesday (June 9, 2009) with fixes for a wide range of code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Six of the ten bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- 20,000 sites hit with drive-by attack code
- Hackers have broken into more than 20,000 legitimate Web sites to plant malicious code to be used in drive-by malware attacks. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious JavaScript, obfuscated code that leads to an active...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and Mom
- Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and MomWhy do we need a commercial...to prove what everybody has known for years, that Apple computers are rip-offs.Um, same name, different women...These are two different Laurens... And the Lauren in this add is not helping her mom, she's buying the laptop herself, for...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Adobe plans quarterly Patch Day for Reader/Acrobat fixes
- Borrowing a few pages from Microsoft's playbook, Adobe today announced plans for a quarterly Patch Day for its Reader/Acrobat product lines and new initiatives to beef up its code hardening and security response processes. Starting this summer, Adobe Reader and Acrobat security patches will be released on...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- 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....
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities
- Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilitiesHow about being a real journalistand giving us a count of patches in third-party open source components as opposed to actual OS X patches.One of the big complaints against Apple is that they are slow to update open source patches. So instead...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Military beefs up cyberwar capabilities with games, Linux
- Military beefs up cyberwar capabilities with games, LinuxSo it'll just be your businesses that remain in the dark ageswith Windows "technologies" then.At least the military is waking up a little bit.It is a no brainer for the Military to use Linux. It did NOT take them longto figure out that...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked
- Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked Why does....The FAA need to have these systems linked to a public facing system? Couldn't they use private networks and segment this stuff from the internet? I just don't understand why there needs to be a connection. I would just like someone...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- New Mac OS X email worm discovered
- New Mac OS X email worm discoveredA bit naive Unfortunately for Linux, social engineering works pretty well unless the user is well informed.At this stage most Linux users [u]are[/u] well informed. But as any OS gains in popularity, the userbase becomes less and less so.Both OSX & Linux are...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Patch Tuesday: Fix coming for PowerPoint zero-day
- Exactly one month after malicious hackers started using rigged PowerPoint files to launch targeted attacks, Microsoft announced plans to ship a "critical" bulletin affecting its flagship presentation program. The PowerPoint update is the only bulletin scheduled for this month's Patch Tuesday on May 12, 2009 . It...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 6.5.4 (Windows)
- Outpost Firewall Pro delivers proactive defense against hackers, spyware, Trojans, botnets, keyloggers, ID theft and other Internet-borne threats. The integrated anti-spyware module defends against the broad range of malicious programs. Its on-demand scanner enables scanning custom locations, while the real-time monitor is constantly on guard against the activation of spyware....
- Software downloads 2009-05-04
- Agnitum Outpost Network Security 3.0.1 (Windows)
- Outpost Network Security ONS is specially designed to help small and medium business SMB organizations protect against modern security challenges and address the problem of productivity waste; it safeguards local networks against external attacks and internal sabotage, keeps endpoints clean of malware, prevents disclosure of inside information, policies employee Internet...
- Software downloads 2009-05-02
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