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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:37:16 +0200 Nothing on the internet is real, manMiscreants have created a tool that dumbs down the process of using fake YouTube websites to spread malware.… Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:29:22 +0200 Chicken Little poxProblems with antivirus updates from Trend Micro left some users with unusable computers late last week.… Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:45:54 +0200 The evil genius of XP Antivirus 2008Anyone who has a blog has probably seen blog spam; comments to the blog that simply try to entice people to go to some other site. Most of the time the site being advertised is simply trying to boost its search engine rankings to generate more ad revenue.… Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:43:24 +0200 Back-ends left open to superbly over-muscled TrojanWebsites carrying news of the Olympic games have been targeted in a new wave of SQL injection attacks. Vulnerabilities in sites including New Delhi Television Limited's NDTV.com have been booby-trapped with exploits designed to install malware onto users' computers.… Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:25:42 +0200 Friendly fire from updateMcAfee has apologised after an anti-virus update released on Monday night incorrectly identified a plug-in for Microsoft Office Live Meeting as a Trojan.… Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:49:19 +0200 More transparency, better protectionMicrosoft has announced plans to share additional details about security vulnerabilities in its products in an attempt to prevent attackers from exploiting them before patches are released to its customers.… Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:06:08 +0200 'Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street'Miscreants have created a pair of worms targeting MySpace and Facebook users. Two variants of a new worm - dubbed Koobface - are the first to use social engineering sites to press-gang infected machines into botnets, warns net security firm Kaspersky Lab.… Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:11:45 +0200 Engine upgrade follows LinkScanner traffic spew fixAVG has published an engine upgrade to its popular anti-virus scanning software that addresses a raft of stability bugs.… Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:32:03 +0200 Trojan apocalypseIt beggars belief that anyone would think that they'd first hear of World War III through a spam email. But hackers are relying on such credulous fools in an attempt to spread a new Trojan.… Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:01:54 +0200 You cannot be seriousTwo high-profile tennis websites are among scores of victims of a new wave of SQL injection attacks. The website of game regulators ITF and ATP, the professional players tour, were hit by automated attacks in the run-up to this week's Wimbledon championship.… Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:55:08 +0200 Resident EvilMicrosoft is claiming big successes in its efforts to to rescue gamers from malware.… Wed, 21 May 2008 18:16:17 +0200 Router bricking riskA security attack that damages embedded systems beyond repair was demonstrated for the first time in London on Wednesday.… Wed, 21 May 2008 09:02:02 +0200 Chinese hackers spread the silent loveThousands of websites in China have been booby trapped with code written to download Trojan software onto visitors who run vulnerable Windows PCs.… Mon, 12 May 2008 19:38:49 +0200 A different kind of insurgencyMalware infected bootleg DVDs bought from Iraqi souks are causing US troops all sorts of problems.… Thu, 08 May 2008 13:56:28 +0200 Ho Chi Hack trailMozilla has warned that the Vietnamese language pack of Firefox 2 was compromised as a result of a viral infection.… Wed, 07 May 2008 14:54:21 +0200 Worst viral outbreak in three yearsHundreds of thousands of examples of a new Trojan that poses as a media file have flooded onto P2P networks.… Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:55:23 +0200 'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us'Comment Zango, creator of Hotbar, Seekmo Search Assistant and other adware programs of dubious value to end users, just can't seem to come to grips with reality. It's coughed up a $3m fine to the FTC and abandoned two lawsuits claiming anti-malware providers illegally interfered with its business after being laughed out of just about every court where it's pursued such actions.… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:22:26 +0200 Race to Zero intoleranceSecurity firms have split over the merits of a hacking contest aimed against anti-virus packages planned for August's Defcon conference.… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:04:45 +0200 What happened to honour among thieves?Malware authors have lifted a page from the legit software industry's rule book and are slapping copyright notices on their Trojans.… Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:16:36 +0200 'Joe Job' social networking attackSecurity personality Graham Cluley has become the target of a hate campaign after a "troll" criticising the British army posted a picture of the anti-virus expert in his Facebook profile.… Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:33:27 +0200 Quick and dirty exploit perilThe length of time between the development of security patches and the development of exploits targeting the security holes they address has been dropping for some time.… Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:02:47 +0200 Chinese whispersSecurity researchers have unearthed more details about a Trojan that targets backend databases as well as desktop clients.… Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:02:03 +0200 400,000 machines get KrakenThis story was updated to correct information about detection of Kraken. 20 percent of PCs using anti-virus products detect the malware, not 20 percent of anti-virus products, as erroneously reported earlier.… Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:52:02 +0200 That would be a FAIL, thenTop tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests.… Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:45:34 +0200 Lazy attack aims to dupe the credulousThe miscreants behind the Storm Worm botnet have taken advantage of April Fools' day in a bid to infect more Windows PCs.… Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:02:03 +0200 Iliad reader carries unwelcome surpriseAn adware package has turned up on the latest e-book devices from iRex, and will install itself automatically onto a connected PC if it gets the chance.… Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:59:32 +0100 ActiveX-ploitAn unpatched bug in RealPlayer leaves the media player open to drive-by-download attacks, which hackers use to trick prospective marks into visiting maliciously constructed websites.… Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:02:31 +0100 29A has left the buildingThe shutters are being pulled down on old school virus writers' group 29A.… Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:06:59 +0100 IFRAME piggybackingUpdated Hackers have found a new way to get Google to point to malicious websites with the help of unwitting websites such as TorrentReactor, ZDNet Asia and several other CNET-owned properties.… Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:06:55 +0100 Covert malware testingCybercrooks are developing covert tools to test malware before releasing it.… Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:21:15 +0100 From social networking to social engineeringMalware authors have written a worm for Orkut, Google-owned networking site that's big in Brazil.… Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:55:04 +0100 Who guards the guards?Security products from both Trend Micro and Symantec - two of the big three anti-virus players - have become the subject of serious security vulnerabilities.… Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:50:09 +0100 Mono-linguists need not applyOnline miscreants are beefing up their cultural outreach skills.… Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:03:14 +0100 Who guards the guards?Hackers planted malicious script on the site of an Indian anti-virus firm this week. The website of AVsoft Technologies was attacked by unidentified miscreants in order to distribute a variant of the Virut virus.… Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:14:48 +0100 Malware hitches a ride on digital photo framesBig box retailer Best Buy has admitted that it sold digital picture frames over the festive period containing malicious software that targets Windows-based PCs.… Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:11:19 +0100 The engines cannae take it, captainThe volume - if not the variety - of malware samples has undergone almost exponential growth over the last three years.… Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:11:45 +0100 Movie-munching Trojan miscreants go all WinnyJapan has arrested its first suspected virus writers, but in a strange twist the three suspected creators and distributors of a strain of P2P malware have been charged with copyright violation, in an arrest that recalls Al Capone's prosecution for tax evasion.… Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:53:44 +0100 Symbian slimeware spreads slowlyA strain of mobile malware targeting Symbian-based phones is "actively infecting" a small number of smartphones, according to security vendor Fortinet.… Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:40:13 +0100 Security research, Web 2.0 styleThe mystery over a cluster of poisoned websites distributing a toxic malware cocktail may be better understood but it's still not solved.… Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:18:29 +0100 Befriend an infectionDoom watchers at McAfee have discovered a booby-trapped MySpace page that foists malware on users by spoofing a Microsoft update down the center of the profile.… Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:33:48 +0100 Issues call to armsSecurity maven Mary Landesman is in the midst of piecing together a who-done-it involving the infection of hundreds of websites that are generating an enormous amount of traffic. Or maybe it's a how-done-it. Either way, she's mostly drawing blanks.… Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:34:01 +0100 Undetected by most AV appsSecurity mavens have uncovered a new class of attacks that attach malware to the bowels of a hard drive, making it extremely hard to detect and even harder to remove.… Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:01:18 +0100 Evil twin hash bashAntivirus firms are concerned about the emergence of techniques that could render meaningless the use of checksums to mark applications as safe.… Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:28:58 +0100 Worming through users' affectionA "malicious widget" on Facebook is leaving love-hungry social networkers feeling crushed.… Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:02:26 +0100 Grownup, shutdownThe old School Virus writers (VXers) scene is dying a death, according to Symantec.… Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:57:46 +0100 Misdirection ruseSecurity researchers have identified a Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with "ads" from a different provider that are likely to be laced with spyware.… Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:05:18 +0100 What is this thing you call heuristics?Antivirus software is getting worse at protecting users from new threats, according to two reports which found malware authors are getting better at disguising their creations.… Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:02:02 +0100 'Antivirus is dead'Grisoft is to acquire Exploit Prevention Labs, a maker of software that gauges the safety of websites before end-users visit them. Grisoft will fold the technology into its AVG family of security software.… Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:26:06 +0100 And questions use of ID cardsGiving evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee hearing on the protection of private data, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas called for changes in the law and a rethink on government data-sharing between departments.… Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:30:10 +0100 Polymorphic virus fools mediocre security packagesMany big-name anti-virus products failed to secure Windows 2000 in recent independent tests.… |
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