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Malware Help Org Malware Help Org Step-by-Step visual guides for Cleaning and Preventing Malware for those new to Online Security. Learn about cleaning Malware which includes Spyware, Adware, Trojans etc. Their methods, symptoms, how to cure and prevent recurrence. Articles
Google's Advanced Search Operators Abused by Spammers
2007-11-09 00:00:00 Imagine Google's search engine being exploited for sending spam URLs. Unbelievable? Believe it!...It appears that spammers have found a way to exploit this facility to direct the end user to a URL advertising their products or services, using Google’s advanced search operators. More About: Search , Operators , Abused , Spammers , Vance
Graffiti as password: secure and memorable
2007-11-09 00:00:00 One of the largest security challenges many organizations face come from the most basic aspect of security: user passwords. Humans simply have a limited capacity to remember otherwise insignificant streams of letters and digits; as a result, they often choose passwords that are easier to remember. More About: Graffiti , Password , Secure
Deconstructing the Fake FTC Email Virus Attack
2007-11-09 00:00:00 A targeted email virus disguised as an identity theft inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission appears to have successfully compromised more than 500 PCs, including victims at banks, real estate brokerages, law firms and marketing companies. More About: Virus , Email , Fake , Attack , Atta
The Decline of the CAPTCHA
2007-11-09 00:00:00 The concept of using CAPTCHA tests to defeat automated attacks is reaching the end of its useful life. This is what we get for taking Alan Turing's name in vain. The 'T' in CAPTCHA is for Turing and his famous proposition that a machine could be said to be called "sentient" when a person out of view talking to it could not tell if it were human or machine. More About: Captcha
Cracking passwords
2007-11-09 00:00:00 When you type in a password, the computer converts whatever you type into a hash. A hash is a unique algorithmic value that is then stored on your computer (or Web server). "Computers have been designed this way for the last 20 years," said Graham, who last summer hacked someone's Gmail account before a live Black Hat audience, "so that when hackers break into your computers they can not just easily steal your passwords. All they can steal is that cryptographic information." Typically, passwords are stored in MD4 hash, says Graham. More About: Cracking , Passwords
Mozilla fixes Firefox regressions, releases Version 2.0.0.9
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Mozilla Corp. late Thursday released Firefox 2.0.0.9, an update it promised last week after it announced five bugs had been introduced by the previous version of the browser. The update, which Mozilla has begun pushing to users who have enabled automatic updates, fixes multiple regression flaws. More About: Mozilla , Version
When antivirus products (and Internet Explorer) fail you
2007-11-03 00:00:00 When Didier Stevens recently took a closer look at some Internet Explorer malware that he had found, something surprised him somewhat. He discovered that the IE targeted malware had been obfuscated with null-bytes (0x00) and when run against VirusTotal, he found that fewer than half of the products identified the sample as malware (15 of 32). More About: Products , Antivirus , Internet Explorer
Symantec: Storm worm changes course
2007-11-03 00:00:00 The Storm worm has evolved again, researchers from Symantec claim. To streamline the worm and make it more stable, the malware authors have shed key functionalities in the malicious code, said the researchers. More About: Worm , Storm Worm , Chang
Leopard's firewall a 'mess,' breaks Skype, says researcher
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Leopard's firewall is confusing, inconsistent, switched off by default and incompatible with some applications, a security researcher said Friday after analyzing the new security tool. More About: Firewall , Skype , Breaks , Mess
Most Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Every single move you make online can, and often is, tracked by online marketers and advertising networks that gather and use the information for serving up targeted advertisements. More About: Online , Tracking , Consumers , Clueless
Researchers fine tune picture passwords
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Computer scientists from Newcastle University announced last week that they have developed software that lets the user draw pictures as an alternative to remembering strings of letters and numbers. More About: Picture , Tune , Fine , Passwords
Malware Warning Over Trial Software Hacks
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Those tempted to download software cracks to unlawfully activate software from a trial mode into a paid mode have been warned that they may be unknowingly installing hacking tools onto their system. More About: Software , Hacks , Malware , Trial , Warning
IBM to spend $1.5 billion to improve computer security
2007-11-03 00:00:00 IBM will spend $1.5 billion developing computer security products in 2008, a sum that could double the company's previous spending. $1.5 billion "is much more than we've ever spent," Val Rahmani, a general manager in IBM's services unit who is responsible for security programs, told The Wall Street Journal. More About: Security , Computer , Improve , Computer Security , Improv
Phishing Trojan targets Mac OS X
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Security vendor Intego claims to have uncovered a new Trojan attack that targets Apple's OS X operating system. The OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan disguises itself as a video codec that offers access to a pornographic video. More About: Phishing , MAC OS X , Roja , Rojan
Virtual stripper helps spam to spread
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image. More About: Spam , Virtual , Stripper , Spread , Ripper
How to remove IE Defender (IE Defender Removal Guide)
2007-11-03 00:00:00 The IE Defender infection is a Browser Helper Object installed in your Internet Explorer browser that hijacks searches you input into the Google and Yahoo search engines. These hijacked searches will state that you are infected and that you need to install the IE Defender rogue antispyware program. You will also receive popups that state you are infected when browsing the web. The reality is that all of these messages and alerts are fake and should be ignored. More About: Guide , Guid , Fender
How to remove AntiSpyGuard (AntiSpyGuard Removal Guide)
2007-11-03 00:00:00 AntiSpyGuard is a rogue antispyware program, that when run, displays misleading and exaggerated results about infections found on your computer. In order to remove these "infections" you must pay for the commercial version of the software. These infections, though, are fake and are placed on your computer by the AntiSpyGuard installation program. More About: Guide , Guid
A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google
2007-11-03 00:00:00 The Firefox browser may not be as independent as previously thought. Mozilla essentially owns Firefox, and it proved so when it flexed its muscles last year in forcing Debian to rename its browser IceWeasel. However, the open secret in the tech sector is that at the end of the day, Google calls the shots. More About: Conflict , Interest , Dangerous
F.T.C. to Review Online Ads and Privacy
2007-11-03 00:00:00 The Federal Trade Commission will hold meetings today and tomorrow about online privacy. The questions they will entertain include how much control people need or want over the vast trove of information that corporate America routinely collects about people as they click from site to site on the Internet. More About: Review , Privacy , Online
Operation GreenDot, Following the SPAM
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Do you ever wonder what is at the other end of the SPAM email that you receive in your inbox? You often see emails advertising cheap software, hot stock tips, and various pharmaceuticals. I think that we have all gotten the v1gra and Cialis emails. One day I decided I would investigate and see just where this little message would take me. So, if you are ready for an adventure, follow me on a virtual trip that will take you all the way around the world. Don’t forget your passport, you will need it. More About: Spam , Operation
The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Beyond obvious, nagging problems such as email spam, phishing lures, viruses, and spyware, a great many commonplace online frustrations some dating all the way back to the earliest days of the Web remain unfixed. More About: Anno
How Gmail Blocks Spam
2007-11-03 00:00:00 While Gmail doesn't filters all the spam messages that could reach your inbox, it certainly does a better job than other webmail apps like Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. Gmail's filters are constantly improving and an important ingredient of their effectiveness is the use of community signals. More About: Spam , Blocks
Why spam can only be managed, not ended
2007-10-27 00:00:00 Years ago when I was still a bit more naive, I thought we could end the spam dilemma if we would simply implement domain level sender authentication using digital signatures. SenderID and Yahoo's DomainKeys came out around 2004 gave me the satisfaction of knowing that I wasn't alone in calling for domain level authentication and DomainKeys is very similar to what I was proposing in 2002. More About: Spam
Flaws in ActiveX controls are being increasingly used to run security explo
2007-10-27 00:00:00 Arbitrary file overwrite and deletion flaws, typically exploited through ActiveX controls, are well on the way to becoming a new class of security flaw, according to net security firm Symantec. More About: Security
How to remove VirusRay (VirusRay Removal Guide)
2007-10-27 00:00:00 VirusRay, a rogue antispyware program is installed by Trojans, called Zlob infections, that impersonate audio or video codecs that you are required to install in order to watch or listen to certain media. In reality, though, when you install these codecs they instead download and install rogue antispyware programs on to your computer and display fake security alerts in your Windows taskbar. More About: Guide , Guid
Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing AntiVirus Programs
2007-10-27 00:00:00 The ever mutating, ever stealthy Storm worm botnet is adding yet another trick to its vast repertoire: Instead of killing antivirus products on target systems, it's now doing a hot fix with a memory patch to render them brain dead. The strategy means that users won't be alarmed by their antivirus software not running. More About: Antivirus , Programs , Worm , Storm Worm
Bad security products thrive on confusion
2007-10-27 00:00:00 Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of BT Counterpane, said many security products offered the feeling of being secure rather than actual security. Vendors can't be trusted to give a reliable precis of a product's capabilities, he warned. More About: Security , Products , Confusion
US still top spam generator
2007-10-27 00:00:00 "It seems as though a major American spammer is arrested every other week at the moment, but despite these high profile lawbreakers being put away, the US continues to relay far more spam than any other nation on the planet," said Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos. More About: Spam , Generator
Fight malware by upgrading to Vista, urges MS
2007-10-27 00:00:00 Systems running Microsoft's latest operating system recorded 60 per cent less malware infections than XP, according to figures obtained using Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool. More About: Malware , Vista , Fight , Urge
Identity thieves likely to be first timers, strangers
More articles from this author:2007-10-27 00:00:00 Identity theft has become the financial crime of the 21st century. The crime has made up approximately a third of all complaints the largest proportion to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies since 2004. The U.S. Secret Service has cracked down on a number of identity fraud rings this year, including the arrest of former security consult Max Ray "Max Vision" Butler in September. More About: Identity , Tran , Strangers , Ranger 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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