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Monthly Archives: March 2008
An internet security paradox
This morning, StopBadware released the results of a recent poll we commissioned through Zogby on internet users’ attitudes about their safety online. From our release: … 88 percent of Internet users feel safe when using personal computers to access the … Continue reading
Tagged attitudes, consumer, maximweinstein, poll, security, stopbadware, zogby
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Dark World of Badware attacks Creator of Dark Worlds of Gaming
“American McGee”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mcgee, noted video gaming renaissance man, recently had a run-in with badware. (“details here”:http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2008/03/11/this-site-may-harm/) Like many people who are flagged by Google about badware, McGee blogged “My initial (useless) response to this knowledge was indignation. “How could my site … Continue reading
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Mac hacked via web
According to the Mac Observer, a “MacBook Air was compromised”:http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/03/28.1.shtml via what sounds like a drive-by download style attack in a hacking competition: bq. On the first day of the event, contestants unsuccessfully attempted to remotely hack into the Mac, … Continue reading
Tagged apple, mac, malware, stopbadware, windows
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What is a “targeted attack?”
Craig Schmugar over at McAfee has an “interesting blog post”:http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/03/27/targeted-attack-mania/ today discussing what constitutes a “targeted attack” in the realm of cybersecurity. bq. So what does the word targeted in targeted attack really mean? One could argue that anyone hit … Continue reading
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Alert: XP Antivirus 2008
Today we are releasing a “badware alert”:http://www.stopbadware.org/reports/reportdisplay?reportname=xpantivirus2008 about XP Antivirus 2008. Here’s the summary from the alert: bq. We find that XP Antivirus 2008 (Unregistered Version) is badware because it makes deceptive claims of system vulnerabilities in order to induce … Continue reading
Tagged alerts, stopbadware
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Another Malicious Ebay Redirect
Some fun for Monday: Some Ebay sellers really want positive feedback. Sandi at Spyware Sucks has noted an occurence of Adobe Shockwave “redirecting Ebay”:http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/default.aspx users, which is noteworthy as the first time that she has seen Shockwave used in this … Continue reading
Tagged malware, redirect, security, stopbadware
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Apple updates raise eyebrows
Bloggers have recently reported that the current version of the Apple Software Update tool for Windows, which is bundled with some of Apple’s current products, such as QuickTime and iTunes, offers the user “updates” for applications (e.g., the Safari web … Continue reading
Tagged apple, itunes, stopbadware
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Malware attacks target Tibet
Both “SANS”:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4177&rss, a security research organization, and security vendor “F-Secure”:http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001406.html are reporting malicious e-mail targeted to pro-Tibet groups. The attacks include a legitimate-looking e-mail body with photos or text about Tibet and one or more malicious attachments, often disguised as … Continue reading
Tagged malware, stopbadware, tibet
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Why Windows updates matter
We recently conducted a small experiment, which we hope to soon expand and write up as a full report. The experiment looked at what happens when a user with Windows XP and Internet Explorer visits badware websites, both before and … Continue reading
Tagged malware, stopbadware, windows
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Mass Hack Attack
As “Cnet”:http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9894181-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog and “ITNews”:http://itnews.com.au/News/72214,second-mass-hack-exposed.aspx reported, Trend Micro got hacked last week. It was later discovered that users who visited the site got lucky in a big way: “We now know that the redirect on the site was broken code,” Mr … Continue reading
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