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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
Privacy, Keeping your information confidential
2007-10-25 00:00:00 Using a modern computer is not what it used to be, computers are now more interconnected than ever before, internet applications have become more advanced and more intelligence is built into applications so installed and live applications gather user information. This information is gathered and reported on periodically, partly with and partly without the user's consent. Some of the information transacted may be confidential and some of the information may have little sensitivity or relevance to the user's identity. The information transacted, however small, has some value and this is why it is transacted. More About: Information , Privacy
RealPlayer Patch Plugs In the Wild Security Exploit
2007-10-25 00:00:00 RealNetworks, the maker of the RealPlayer and RealOne media player software, has issued a security update to fix a flaw that hackers are actively exploiting to break into vulnerable computers. More About: Security , Exploit , Wild , Patch
Secunia: 25% of computers have vulnerable IrfanView installed
2007-10-25 00:00:00 Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in IrfanView, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when importing palette (*.pal) files. More About: Computers , Irfanview , Secunia
Google's Purchase of Jaiku Raises New Privacy Issues
2007-10-25 00:00:00 Google's acquisition of Jaiku , a small Finnish startup active in the obscure field of microblogging a word most often associated with the better known company Twitter might not appear to be an earth shaking event. More About: Issues , Privacy , Purchase , Issue
Trojan horse steals Skype usernames and passwords
2007-10-25 00:00:00 A Trojan horse posing as a Skype addon is stealing logon credentials, the company's online spokesman, Villu Arak, said yesterday in a blog posting. Calling itself Skype Defender, the malware installs if users download and run the executable SkypeDefenderSetup.exe, then launches to display a mock Skype interface complete with username and password fields. Entering valid information, however, only results in the bogus application claiming, "Your Skype name and password were not recognized. Please check and try again." More About: Steals , Horse , Roja
Zero Day Vulnerability Threatens RealPlayer Users
2007-10-25 00:00:00 A zero day vulnerability in the latest version of RealPlayer and RealPlayer 11 Beta is actively being exploited, Symantec said Friday morning. It could allow remote attackers to take control of computers running the affected music player software. More About: Vulnerability , Users , Threat
Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws
2007-10-25 00:00:00 Mozilla Corp updated its open source Firefox browser to patch 10 bugs in Firefox, including three rated as critical, and released the refreshed versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The new Firefox 2.0.0.8 is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, Mozilla said. More About: Mozilla
Research Shows Steganography Threats, May Be On The Rise
2007-10-25 00:00:00 Until recently, steganography, the stealth technique of hiding text or images within image files, has mostly been considered too complex and conspicuous to be much of a threat. But some forensics experts now worry that the bad guys are starting to use the tactic more frequently, especially in child pornography and identity theft trafficking. More About: Research , Rise , Threats , Tegan , Threat
University researcher claims the Zhelatin Trojan is dying down
2007-10-25 00:00:00 A security researcher at the University of California says the Storm Worm could be coming to an end, based on his tracking data. Brandon Enright told the Toorcon hacker conference in San Diego he had been following the Zhelatin Trojan 's progress since July and believes its effects have been significantly reduced. More About: Dying , Claims , Roja
Chinese Internet Censorship Machine Revealed
2007-10-18 00:00:00 The Chinese government has instituted an elaborate system for Internet censorship that employs tens of thousands of censors and police responsible for maintaining control over the flow of information, a report released by international free press advocates showed. More About: Machine , Censorship , Mach
Insight into MPACK Hacker kit
2007-10-18 00:00:00 If you thought that running Windows Vista, with the latest virus software and updates installed, and with Internet Explorer or Firefox locked down was enough to be protected on the Internet, you are in the same boat as the rest of us who were wrong. There is a new, high tech attack that is running around the Internet. The new attack is from the MPACK kit... the exploit is so stealthy, it will be finding its way into the United States very soon. There are ways to protect yourself, but if you don’t take action, you are most certain to be attacked and infected by the MPACK kit. More About: Insight , Hacker
RBN the Russian Hosting Firm Denies Criminal Ties
2007-10-18 00:00:00 "We can't understand on which basis these organizations have such an opinion about our company," Tim Jaret of the Russian Business Network says in an email interview. "We can say that this is subjective opinion based on these organizations' guesswork." Jaret's email signature identifies him as working in RBN's abuse department. More About: Hosting , Criminal , Mina
How to reduce password pain
2007-10-18 00:00:00 McAfee found that most people don't use the recommended longer, more complex, passwords made up of a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and even punctuation characters. Worse still, many passwords are fairly obvious things like a pet's name or a hobby. More About: Pain , Password , Reduce
PDF MailTo Vulnerability Fix Tool
2007-10-18 00:00:00 There is a critical security vulnerability that affects Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, versions 8.1 and below. According to the Adobe Security Advisory, your machine is vulnerable if you have: Adobe Reader 8.1 and earlier OR Adobe Acrobat 8.1 and earlier, Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. More About: Tool , Vulnerability
P2P: Use a blocklist or you will be tracked
2007-10-18 00:00:00 For years, P2P communities have suspected that affiliates of the RIAA, the MPAA, and others have been haunting P2P networks to look for those who might be swapping copyrighted files. It's more than a hunch; it's well documented that companies like SafeNet (formerly Media Sentry) engage in this sort of work, and that their testimony is routinely produced at trials. It helped to bring down Jammie Thomas, in fact.
Shadowy Russian Firm Seen as Conduit for Cybercrime
2007-10-18 00:00:00 An Internet business based in St. Petersburg has become a world hub for Web sites devoted to child pornography, spamming and identity theft, according to computer security experts. They say Russian authorities have provided little help in efforts to shut down the company. More About: Cybercrime
Rock Phish is behind growing Net fraud
2007-10-18 00:00:00 A recent surge in phishing fraudulent email and websites designed to "fish" sensitive personal information such as passwords and credit card numbers is the handiwork of a small, shadowy cybergang, computer security experts say. More About: Fraud , Rock , Phish , Growing
A Year's Worth of Phish Facts
2007-10-18 00:00:00 Phishtank.com, a volunteer effort to identify phishing emails and associated Web sites, released its first annual report today, providing one of the most comprehensive data sets ever published on the subject and offering fascinating insights on the scope and increasing sophistication of phishing attacks. More About: Facts , Phish , Worth , Wort
The brains behind Bugmenot
2007-10-18 00:00:00 It was a "slapped together" weekend project that has helped millions view websites without having to register their details. Now the Melbourne man behind Bugmenot.com, one of the first websites to harness the power of user generated content, is revealing himself to the world. More About: Brains , The Brain
Microsoft HealthVault site faces concerns over privacy
2007-10-08 00:00:00 Microsoft Corp. launched a website Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries. More About: Microsoft , Faces , Site , Privacy , Riva
IE 7 Update Drops WGA Validation Requirement
2007-10-08 00:00:00 "Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, and we're taking a step to help make consumers safer online. We feel the security enhancements to Internet Explorer 7 are significant enough that it should be available as broadly as possible, and this means making it available to all users of IE 7 compatible Windows operating systems," Steve Reynolds, program manager for Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., told eWEEK. More About: Update , Validation , Drop , Dati , Vali
Think Your Home Computer Is Safe? Think Again
2007-10-08 00:00:00 When it comes to home computer security, Americans agree that keeping their computer safe is important, but they are not as secure as they think. A new national survey conducted by McAfee and NCSA compared online Americans opinions of their computer security to the reality what security software they were actually running and found that when it comes to cyber security, most Americans are in dire need of a reality check. More About: Computer , Home , Safe
Microsoft patch Tuesday: Expect 7 bulletins, 4 critical
2007-10-08 00:00:00 Microsoft plans to release seven security bulletins next week, including patches for critical bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. More About: Microsoft , Expect , Patch , Tuesday , Critical
eBay: Botnets are Linux happy
2007-10-08 00:00:00 More interesting is that most of the compromised machines were not Windows machines. "The vast majority of [the phishing sites] we saw were on rootkit-ed Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected a predominance of Microsoft boxes and that wasn't the case." More About: Ebay , Happy , Botnets
Why going online remains risky
2007-10-08 00:00:00 The lone wolf geek you imagine hunched over a computer in his basement isn't the only one out to steal your identity on the Internet. More About: Online , Going , Goin , Mains
Malware Boom Puts Pressure on AV Labs
2007-10-08 00:00:00 Over the first six months of 2007, antivirus applications market leader Symantec found a total of 212,101 new malware variants, an astonishing 185 percent increase over the second half of 2006, totaling an average of well over 1100 unique samples arriving per day. More About: Malware , Labs , Boom
Gathering Storm Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
2007-10-08 00:00:00 Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide. More About: Grave , Pose , Threat , Erin
China's Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS feeds
2007-10-08 00:00:00 Savvy Internet fans in the people's republic have known for a long time, however, that there have been simple ways to get forbidden information. One of those ways was the magical gift of Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. The Great Firewall can block specific web sites all it wants, but as long as there's an RSS feed, many Chinese surfers can use feeds to access otherwise forbidden information. More About: Attention , Tent
Asia Finds Security in Open Source
2007-10-08 00:00:00 Better security protection tops the list of buying criteria for open source software, reveals a new study conducted on Australia, China, India and Korea. More About: Security , Asia , Open Source , Open , Source
FSecure sees smaller botnets on the rise
More articles from this author:2007-10-08 00:00:00 Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to make it harder for software security companies to track and contain botnet operations, researchers say. Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become "zombies" in a botnet which is a network used to send out spam and to mount further attacks on other machines. More About: Rise , Botnets , Sees 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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