Chủ Nhật, 19 tháng 9, 2010

I received a rather strange e-mail earlier, quite obviously spam, but strange none the less.Why strange you ask?, well when an e-mail arrives and the subject contains the words "exclusive movies", it's usually going to be one of two things - fake meds, or malware. In this case however, there's a bunch of links to .rar files hosted at filesonic.com. The details of one of the e-mails (I've received

Thứ Sáu, 17 tháng 9, 2010

Zone Alarm has long been considered a good product to have on your PC by some (never liked it myself personally, but that's just me), so imagine everyones surprise when the developers of ZoneAlarm decide to use scareware tactics.There's been a rash of complaints on the Zone Alarm forums, amongst other places, concerning a dialog that's been popping up (see top left), with information about a

Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 9, 2010

Ever wonder whether posting what you're doing, where you're going, and when, was a bad idea or not? Wonder no more. Not sure about anyone else (though sure I'm not the only one), but I've told people for years not to announce this kind of information anywhere, especially online - and have largely been ignore.I'll not bother saying "I told you so", I'll just point you to this instead (and nope -
Parents and teens now have access to a free downloadable e-book from Microsoft called “Own Your Space,” which aims to instruct teens and other new internet users how to stay safe while online. Specifically, the book addresses common security threats like phishing scams as well as modern-day social issues like cyber-bullying and cyber-stalking.http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/

Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 9, 2010

The newly discovered IMDDOS Botnet is a commercial DDoS service. The botnet grew large very quickly. Beginning testing in April 2010, it reached a production peak activity by the second week of August of 25,000 unique recursive DNS lookups/hour to the command-and-control (CnC) servers.This paper details the growth of the IMDDOS Botnet, the commercial aspects of its operation, the technical

Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 9, 2010

Before you read this, just an FYI folks, I know the hpHosts release is a little late, this is due to my being down the other end of the country between Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th. I'm now expecting to have a release out by Thursday/Friday.Over the course of the last few weeks, our malware sandboxes have analyzed several interesting specimens with malicious activities that include the making of

Thứ Sáu, 3 tháng 9, 2010

We've all got very old machines that we'd love to use, but sadly, they won't run newer versions of Windows and indeed, newer versions of some Linux distro's. Thankfully there's someone out there that has seen fit to work on a Linux based distribution for this very purpose (time to pick out my 486 hehe (did also have a Victor from 1981, but some idiot threw that out)).http://pupweb.org/wikka/