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ComScore Says ?Researchware? Isn?t ?Spyware?
2008-02-13 08:03:00 "ComScore chairman and co-founder Gian Fulgoni believes there’s a distinction between overt and covert data gathering. Market researchers, he suggests, rely on "researchware," in contrast to criminal researchers who employ "spyware." "Market research tracking software (we have dubbed it ‘researchware’) needs to be differentiated from ‘adware,’ ’spyware,’ and ‘malware’ and should not be treated in ... More About: Spyware
Mozilla patches 11 Firefox bugs
2008-02-13 08:01:00 "Mozilla Corp. late yesterday patched Firefox to quash 11 bugs, including one from three weeks ago that posed a threat to users who had installed any of the more than 600 add-ons for the open-source browser. Firefox 2.0.0.12 fixed four vulnerabilities that Mozilla ranked "critical," one it pegged "high" and three each rated as "moderate" ... More About: Patches , Bugs
Least privilege won?t solve every security problem, but it?s a significant
2008-02-13 07:58:00 "First and foremost, least privilege models prevent 90 percent or more of today’s malware. You can’t ignore that statistic. Malware writers may easily code around least privilege when they need to, but it does significantly cut down on software that can cause harm today. Second, least privilege mechanisms make it harder for malware to modify ... More About: Security , Problem
Malicious programs hit new high
2008-02-13 07:56:00 "The number of malicious programs found online has reached an unprecedented high, say security firms. Reports vary but some estimates suggest there were five times as many variants of malicious programs in circulation in 2007 compared to 2006. Security company Panda Software said it was getting more than 3,000 novel samples of so called malware ... More About: Programs , High
Microsoft slates 12 patches for next week
2008-02-08 15:36:00 "Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will release a dozen security updates next week, matching the patch record set a year ago. Seven of the 12 will be tagged with the company’s highest threat ranking. "There’s not a Windows shop anywhere in the world that won’t need to deploy at least one of these patches," ... More About: Patches , Week
anti-CAPTCHA operations by spammers on Microsoft Windows Live Mail
2008-02-08 15:33:00 "Websense Security Labs has discovered that Windows Live Mail accounts have been targeted in recent spammer tactics. In these recent attacks, spammers have managed to create bots that are capable of signing up and creating random Live Mail accounts that could be used for a wide range of subsequent attacks. ShareThis Possibly relatedMicrosoft slates 12 patches for ... More About: Windows Live
Free tool blocks Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo ActiveX vulnerabilities
2008-02-08 14:56:00 "A researcher over at the Internet Storm Center has created a powerful GUI that will set the kill-bits on vulnerable ActiveX controls used in Facebook, Myspace , and Yahoo apps. These popular apps came under attack on Monday after researchers Elazar Broad and Krystian Kloskowski disclosed their findings to a online security newsgroup. ShareThis Possibly relatedKill ActiveXCritical flaws ... More About: Software , Free , Vulnerabilities
Adobe, Apple Issue Security Updates
2008-02-08 14:54:00 "Adobe has released an update to its free Adobe Reader application that corrects more than two dozen bugs, including several security holes. Separately, Apple this week pushed out a patch to plug a single security vulnerability in its iPhoto application. ShareThis Possibly relatedMicrosoft slates 12 patches for next weekHacking: Analysts warn of Mac hack attacks More About: Security , Updates , Issue
TrueCrypt 5 released
2008-02-08 14:52:00 "TrueCrypt, an encryption program designed to hide your data from prying eyes, has released a new update that adds the ability to encrypt an entire disk. Seems like just about everyday we read about yet another exposure of sensitive data because someone’s laptop was stolen, but if those careless employees had used TrueCrypt it wouldn’t ... More About: Released
Antivirus Inventor: Security Departments Are Wasting Their Time
2008-02-08 14:50:00 "Peter Tippett thinks it’s time for security professionals to wake up and stop wasting their energy. In a presentation here yesterday, Tippett — who is vice president of risk intelligence for Verizon Business, chief scientist at ICSA Labs, and the inventor of the program that became Norton AntiVirus — said that about one third of ... More About: Security , Antivirus , Time , Departments , Inventor
The top eight events that changed the course of computer security history
2008-02-08 14:31:00 "Given the headlines lately, you could be forgiven for thinking that the biggest, baddest events in the history of computer security have all happened within the last few years. After all, there have been so many hacks disclosed that Stephen Northcutt of SANS recently observed, ?The way we are going, there are only going to ... More About: Security , Events , History , Computer , Computer Security
Kill ActiveX
2008-02-08 14:28:00 "A wave of bugs in the plug-in technology used by Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser has some security experts, including those at US-CERT, recommending that users disable all ActiveX controls. ShareThis Possibly relatedFree tool blocks Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo ActiveX vulnerabilitiesCritical flaws found in MySpace, Facebook ActiveX controlsMozilla confirms Firefox proof of concept information leak vulnerabilityPrivacy: Facebook ... More About: Kill
Storm?s Creators Identified
2008-02-08 14:23:00 "American and Russian law enforcement agencies have finally identified the criminals behind the Storm worm, one of the nastiest pieces of malware to ever hit the Internet. Now comes the hard part: arresting them. ShareThis Possibly relatedMalware: Storm switches tactics third time, adds rootkit
Antivirus firms, testers form standards group
2008-02-08 14:16:00 "Nearly two dozen companies announced on Monday the creation of an organization to set best practices and standards for the evaluation of antivirus software. As previously reported by SecurityFocus, more than 40 researchers met in Bilbao, Spain, last month to finalize the details of the group, dubbed the Anti-Malware Testing Standard Organization (AMTSO). ShareThis Possibly relatedAntivirus Inventor: ... More About: Standards , Form , Group , Firms
MayDay! Sneakier, More Powerful Botnet on the Loose
2008-02-08 14:14:00 "A new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet even more powerful and stealthy than the infamous Storm has begun infiltrating mostly U.S.-based large enterprises, educational institutions, and customers of major ISPs. The MayDay botnet can evade leading antivirus products, and so far has compromised thousands of hosts, according to Damballa, which says 96.5 percent of the infected machines ... More About: Security , Botnet , Botnets
Top five cyber threats in 2008
2008-02-08 14:09:00 "Security threats in the cyber scene have grown at an extraordinary rate in the past year. This year will also see a rise in spyware and rouge ware threats to computer security besides the general virus and worms problem. Below is the list of prominent threats we can see in 2008 . ShareThis Possibly relatedTrueCrypt 5 releasedAntivirus Inventor: ... More About: Cyber , Threats
10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers
2008-02-08 14:04:00 "We all do dumb things now and then, and computer users are no exception. Inadvertently pressing the wrong key combination or innocently clicking OK in the wrong dialog box can change important settings that alter a computer’s behavior or even crash the system. ShareThis Possibly relatedTrueCrypt 5 releasedAntivirus Inventor: Security Departments Are Wasting Their TimeThe top eight ... More About: Computers , Dumb , Things , Users , Mess
Bruce Schneier on fighting security FUD
2008-02-08 12:26:00 "Security expert Bruce Schneier has long been critical of so-called security ?theatre’ - policies and products tailored to provide the perception of security rather than tackling actual security risks. In his keynote address to Linux.conf.au this week he said information is our only effective security weapon, but that the computer security industry must not ignore ... More About: Fighting
Google Mail vulnerable to sidejacking despite SSL
2008-02-08 12:23:00 "According to security researcher and CEO of Errata Security Robert Graham, Google ’s JavaScript code makes HTTP requests in the background via an XMLHttpRequest. By default, these requests are SSL-encrypted?but if SSL fails, they change to nonencrypted mode. When a user attempts to connect to a WiFi hotspot, Google Mail attempts to connect with SSL both ... More About: Google mail
Privacy groups vow to fight Microsoft-Yahoo deal
2008-02-08 12:16:00 "Privacy groups are promising a fight before U.S. regulatory agencies if Microsoft ’s offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is accepted, and the deal could face significant hurdles in Europe as well. Microsoft announced that it sent an offer to Yahoo’s board of directors last Thursday, going public with the news Friday morning. Immediately, the ... More About: Fight , Deal
Critical flaws found in MySpace, Facebook ActiveX controls
2008-02-08 12:11:00 "Bugs in the ActiveX controls on popular social networking sites Facebook and MySpace can be used by hackers to snatch control of Windows PCs, security experts said today. Initially made public by researcher Elazar Broad on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, the vulnerabilities are in a pair of ActiveX controls that Facebook and MySpace ... More About: Myspace , Critical
RealPlayer 10.5 is badware
2008-02-08 12:02:00 "We find that RealPlayer 10.5 is badware because it fails to accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on the user’s computer. We additionally find that RealPlayer 11 is badware because it does not disclose the fact that it installs Rhapsody Player Engine software, and fails to remove this software when ... More About: Badware
Security: Men overconfident about online security
2008-01-30 06:29:00 "Most men believe that they know more about online security than women, but new research suggests that both sexes are equally vulnerable to malware and other threats.. ShareThis Possibly relatedSecurity : IT security in 2008 not looking too great More About: Online
Hacking: Vista?s Growing Popularity Draws Hackers? Malice
2008-01-30 06:28:00 "With more people finally switching to Windows Vista , the operating system is fast becoming a target for security researchers and–surprise!–hackers. ShareThis Possibly relatedHacking: Attackers Abuse Google BloggerHacking: 51 Percent Of Malicious Web Sites Are HackedHacking: Researcher cracks Yahoo CAPTCHA softwareHacking: Hackers go after ExcelHacking: Hijacking Printers For Spamming More About: Growing , Popularity
Malware: Malware in the Movies
2008-01-30 06:24:00 "The very first computer virus did not happen on a Windows machine, or a Mac or an Apple II. The first virus did not travel via the Internet or in an email or in a floppy disk. The first virus was not on a minicomputer, nor was it on a mainframe. That?s because the first ... More About: Movies , Malware , The Movies
Hacking: Attackers Abuse Google Blogger
2008-01-30 06:19:00 "Hackers are currently littering Google ’s Blogger site with phony blogs — some containing malware, pornographic images, or pure spam. "Google Blogger is being used as a malware delivery mechanism," says Ken Steinberg, CTO and president of Savant Protection, who discovered the attack while working on his own blog this morning. The attackers apparently are automatically ... More About: Abuse
Security: Macs under attack
2008-01-30 06:12:00 "Viruses, worms and Trojans have probably done as much for Apple?s ascendancy in recent years as any single advertising campaign. Talk to any recent defector from Windows and invariably the security issue will be among the reasons for making the switch. Compared to the patch-obligatory PC experience, a war zone of zero-day exploits and encrypted ... More About: Security , Macs , Attack
Mozilla confirms Firefox proof of concept information leak vulnerability
2008-01-30 06:10:00 "Mozilla ?s security chief Window Snyder has confirmed a proof of concept information leak flaw in Firefox ?even fully patched versions. Snyder confirmed the issue in a blog post. The proof of concept vulnerability was highlighted by researcher Gerry Eisenhaur on Jan. 19. In a nutshell, Firefox leaks information that can allow an attacker to load any ... More About: Information , Vulnerability , Proof
Malware: Mobile worm spreads through networks
2008-01-30 06:05:00 "Experts are warning of a new worm spreading across mobile networks via Symbian phones. The worm is similar to the CommWarrior mobile virus, and initially fooled researchers into believing that it was not new. However, it is actually a new class of mobile virus which spreads via file extensions named ‘beauty.jpg’, ’sex.mp3′ and ‘love.rm’. ShareThis Possibly ... More About: Mobile , Networks , Malware , Worm , Spreads
Phishing: Stealing Phish from Fraudsters
More articles from this author:2008-01-30 06:02:00 "A recurrent group of Moroccan fraudsters calling themselves Mr-Brain has launched a website dedicated to offering easy-to-use phishing site code, email templates and other hacking tools. The website offers phishing kits for many of the most common targets, such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal and HSBC. ShareThis Possibly relatedPhish ing : Phishing kits take advantage of novice fraudstersPhishing: ... More About: Stealing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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