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Pharming: Drive-by Pharming in the Wild
2008-01-30 06:01:00 "We recently saw instances of actual attackers attempting a basic version of drive-by pharming. Given the simplicity of the attack and the potential widespread implications, we always felt that it would simply be a matter of time before it happened. The building blocks have been out there for some time and anyone with sufficient familiarity ... More About: Drive , Wild , Armin , Pharming
Hacking: 51 Percent Of Malicious Web Sites Are Hacked
2008-01-30 05:58:00 "The number of legitimate Web sites that have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to infect the visitor’s PC with malware now exceeds the number of sites specifically created by cyber criminals, according to a report released today. ShareThis Possibly relatedHacking: Vista’s Growing Popularity Draws Hackers’ MaliceMalware: Malware in the MoviesHacking: Attackers Abuse Google BloggerMalware: ... More About: Web Sites , Sites , Hacked
Privacy: IP addresses could become ?personal information? in Europe
2008-01-30 05:57:00 "Could IP addresses soon be considered "personal information" in Europe ? The question was discussed yesterday at a hearing before the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee, where European data protection authorities and privacy advocates backed the idea. Google, not surprisingly, wasn’t as thrilled. ShareThis Possibly relatedPrivacy : Facebook faces privacy questionsCredit card data breach could affect 650,000Privacy: Microsoft Wants ... More About: Personal , Information
Vishing: FBI warns that ?vishing? attacks are on the rise
2008-01-22 07:46:00 "According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the number of "vishing" complaints received by the center is increasing at what it calls "an alarming rate." Vishing and phishing are related, and both rely on e-mail as a means of delivering bait, but the two use different hooks in order to snag user data. ShareThis Readers ... More About: Rise , Attacks , Atta
Malware: Malware writers gear up for bumper 2008
2008-01-22 07:43:00 "Security experts have warned users to focus on securing their whole online lifestyle in 2008 . Care should be taken in all aspects of online services, including bill payments, shopping and stock trading, and not just in the use of social networking and gaming sites. ShareThis Possibly relatedMalware : Malware spreads in nanosecondsMalware: Fight Malware With Exposure, Group AdvisesMalware: ... More About: Bumper , Writers , Gear
Malware: Malware spreads in nanoseconds
2008-01-22 07:41:00 "The malware threat landscape is changing rapidly and it spells tremendous opportunities for McAfee Inc, the leading antivirus and computer security firm. India is likely to play a great role to help the company meet its challenges, McAfee president and CEO David DeWalt on his first visit to India after assuming office at the Santa ... More About: Malware , Spreads , Seconds
Privacy: Facebook faces privacy questions
2008-01-22 07:38:00 "Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully delete their profile even after terminating their account. Currently, personal information remains on Facebook’s servers even after a user deactivates an account. ShareThis Possibly relatedCredit ... More About: Questions , Faces , Privacy
Tips: How to Minimize Risk from Zero Day Attacks
2008-01-22 07:22:00 "…Microsoft Excel files are being used to exploit a zero-day (previously unknown/unpatched) vulnerability and plant keystroke loggers on select (.gov?) networks…bugs in Microsoft Office applications emerged over the last year as standard weapons for criminals conducting corporate espionage and computer attacks against military targets. Last summer, Microsoft’s Office team struggled to keep pace with flaw ... More About: Tips , Risk , Attacks , Atta
Credit card data breach could affect 650,000
2008-01-22 07:10:00 "Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing. GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people. ShareThis Possibly relatedPrivacy : Facebook faces ... More About: Card , Credit , Data , Credit Card
Privacy: Microsoft Wants to Be Your Big Brother
2008-01-22 06:59:00 "It’s not science-fiction. It’s a real technology and it cannot be allowed to happen or privacy will vanish. In Microsoft ’s vision of tomorrow’s office, according to a report in the London Times, our computers will be constantly monitoring us with wireless sensors. There’s nothing new about Big Brother software. Programs that measure how many keystrokes ... More About: Privacy
Hacking: Researcher cracks Yahoo CAPTCHA software
2008-01-22 06:53:00 "A security researcher has claimed that Yahoo ’s system for blocking automated access to its systems - the CAPTCHA image-recognition system - has been effectively cracked. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) systems are used by Yahoo, as well as Google, Microsoft and others, to stop automated systems from registering ... More About: Software , Captcha , Cracks , Yahoo!
Hacking: Hackers go after Excel
2008-01-22 06:50:00 "Microsoft has warned that an unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Excel is being actively exploited by hackers. The bug, which has become the subject of targeted attacks, affects older versions of Excel. Newer versions Excel 2003 SP3 and Excel 2007 are said to be immune. Details of the vulnerability beyond what packages might be ... More About: Hackers
Hacking: Hackers Have Attacked Foreign Utilities, CIA Analyst Says
2008-01-22 06:48:00 "In a rare public warning to the power and utility industry, a CIA analyst this week said cyber attackers have hacked into the computer systems of utility companies outside the United States and made demands, in at least one case causing a power outage that affected multiple cities. ShareThis Possibly relatedHacking: Analyst s warn of Mac hack attacks More About: Utilities , Hackers , Foreign , Attacked
Security: Top 10 Cybersecurity Menaces For 2008
2008-01-22 06:47:00 "The SANS Institute on last Monday released its take on the top 10 cybersecurity threats for 2008 . Leading the list is a rise in the number of attacks on Web browsers, the proliferation of botnets, and sophisticated cyberespionage. Twelve noted cybersecurity experts — Stephen Northcutt, Ed Skoudis, Marc Sachs, Johannes Ullrich, Tom Liston, Eric Cole, ... More About: Security
Malicious Code: Trojan.Silentbanker
2008-01-22 06:44:00 "The scale and sophistication of this emerging banking Trojan is worrying, even for someone who sees banking Trojans on a daily basis. This Trojan downloads a configuration file that contains the domain names of over 400 banks. Not only are the usual large American banks targeted but banks in many other countries are also targeted, ... More About: Code
Malware: Fight Malware With Exposure, Group Advises
2008-01-22 06:37:00 "One of the best ways to fight the criminal malware networks that now populate the Internet might actually be the simplest - publicize their existence. That is one conclusion that to be drawn from a white paper published by a volunteer group, the Shadowserver Foundation, which assesses the activities of the Russian Business Network (RBN), ... More About: Malware , Fight , Exposure , Group
Hacking: Legitimate sites serving up stealthy attacks
2008-01-22 06:33:00 "Thousands of legitimate Web sites are hosting an infection kit that evades detection by attempting to compromise each visitor only once and using a different file name each time, Web security firm Finjan warned last Monday. The attack, dubbed the "Random JS toolkit" by the security firm, currently uses dozens of hosting servers and ... More About: Sites , Attacks , Atta
Malware: The malware shadow economy
2008-01-22 06:24:00 "Viruses, malware and online crime are evolving from the realm of geeks into a major shadow economy that closely mimics the real world. Maksym Schipka, a senior architect at security firm MessageLabs, claims to have identified a sophisticated online black market with tens of thousands of participants. This underground internet economy is worth over $105bn, ... More About: Economy , Malware , Shadow
Spam: Five Things You Should Know About Fighting Spam
2008-01-12 07:08:00 …"85 percent or more of all e-mail traffic today is spam. If you haven?t been listening closely to the dark mutterings in your e-mail administrator?s office, you may have missed out on significant clues about the nature of the problem and what the IT department can do to address it. However, when you do listen ... More About: Spam , Fighting , Things
Malware: An Inside Look at the Russian Business Network
2008-01-12 06:51:00 "A new white paper published by the nonprofit botnet-tracker Shadowserver Foundation sheds some light on one segment of activity on the Russian Business Network (RBN). Shadowserver released its findings on malware associated with the so-called AS40989 group of interconnected IP networks on the RBN. ShareThis Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:Malware : Hackers exploit Bhutto assassinationMalware: ... More About: Inside
Malware: Warning on stealthy Windows virus
2008-01-12 06:47:00 "Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows virus that steals login details for online bank accounts. In the last month, the malicious program has racked up about 5,000 victims - most of whom are in Europe. Many are falling victim via booby-trapped websites that use vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s browser to install the attack code. ShareThis Possibly ... More About: Virus , Malware , Warning
Vulnerabilities: First QuickTime bug of 2008
2008-01-12 06:42:00 "Luigi Auriemma, a 27-year-old Italian researcher who broke the news of the flaw on Thursday, said that the most recent version of QuickTime is prone to a buffer overflow that, if successfully exploited, gives the attacker free rein over a user’s computer. He posted information and proof-of-concept code on security site, milw0rm, his own website ... More About: Vulnerabilities , Quicktime , 2008
Hacking: Hijacking Printers For Spamming
2008-01-12 06:39:00 "Building on the concept of cross-site scripting, whereby an attacker can inject malicious code in Web pages viewed by others, security researcher Aaron Weaver has demonstrated how an attacker can inject spam messages into a Web site visitor’s printer. ShareThis Possibly relatedSpam: Five Things You Should Know About Fighting Spam More About: Spamming , Printers , Jacking
Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Flaw could lead to worm attack
2008-01-12 06:33:00 "Microsoft has fixed a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-copying computer worm attack. The software vendor released its first set of patches for 2008 on Tuesday, fixing a pair of networking flaws in the Windows kernel. Microsoft also released a second update for a ... More About: Worm , Vulnerabilities , Lead , Attack
Malware: A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it is possible
2008-01-12 06:26:00 "If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University. The researchers estimate that a Wi-Fi attack could take over 20 000 wireless routers in New York City within ... More About: Virus , Malware
Hacking: Security Software Vendor Web Site Hacked by Malware Authors
2008-01-12 06:19:00 "Part of security software vendor CA?s Web site was hacked earlier this week and was redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China. ShareThis Possibly relatedMalware : Come see the softer side of spywareMalware: Warning on stealthy Windows virusVulnerabilities: Microsoft Flaw could lead to worm attackMalware: A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it is possibleMalware: New ... More About: Software , Security , Site , Authors
Security: What?s In Store for 2008?
2008-01-12 06:16:00 "Microsoft predicts that in 2008 criminals will continue to use social engineering tactics in fresh and devious ways. Social engineering refers to the tactics criminals use to manipulate people into taking action online that enables criminals to steal their money or personal information. ShareThis Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:Malware: Analysis of the Pushdo TrojanVulnerabilities: ... More About: Security , Store
Vulnerabilities: RealPlayer flaw raises security flags
2008-01-12 06:13:00 "Security experts are warning users to be vigilant after the disclosure of a new security vulnerability in RealPlayer. The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a victim’s machine. ShareThis Possibly relatedVulnerabilities : First QuickTime bug of 2008Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Flaw could lead to worm attackVulberabilities: ID Theft Vulnerability Haunts FirefoxSecurity: Microsoft launches Security Vulnerability Research ...
Phishing: Phishing kits take advantage of novice fraudsters
2008-01-12 06:03:00 "A phishing kit targeting the Bank of America contains an interesting insight into the intellectual hierarchy involved in Internet fraud. At first glance, the phishing kit looks attractive to any fraudster ? it is straightforward to deploy on any web server that supports PHP, and a single configuration file makes it easy to specify an ... More About: Phishing , Kits , Novice , Advanta
Vulberabilities: ID Theft Vulnerability Haunts Firefox
More articles from this author:2008-01-05 06:07:00 "Israeli security researcher Aviv Raff has issued a warning for a fairly serious browser vulnerability that exposes Firefox users to identity theft attacks. Raff, a well-respected hacker who regularly reports security problems in software products, discovered a way to use a browser bug to lure Firefox users into entering login credentials into a maliciously rigged ... More About: Vulnerability , Theft 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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