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IBM and Websense Release Reports on Internet Safety-Status

“Websense”:http://www.websense.com and “IBM”:http://www.ibm.com released security reports this week covering topics from spam to research on the impact of publicizing software vulnerabilities. In his Security Fix blog post, Brian Krebs continues his coverage on “badware distribution”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/75_percent_of_malicious_web_si_1.html, prompted by the release of … Continue reading

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Outsource that Email Hack

Dancho Danchev has “blogged”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/04/crimeware-in-middle-zeus.html “repeatedly”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/04/outsourcing-spying-on-your-wife.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive10&action=toggle&dir=close&toggle=MONTHLY-1214863200000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1214863200000,MONTHLY-1212271200000 about the commercilization of badware producers, and this week he mentioned another example: “outsourced email hacking”:http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/07/email-hacking-going-commercial.html. The hackers-for-hire promise that their seven-step process, from submitting the information of the would-be victim to proof of execution … Continue reading

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Phishers Embed Forms as Hooks

Alex Eckelberry at “Sunbelt”:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ “noted”:http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/evolution-of-phishing-embedded-forms.html a nifty phishing development: embedded forms. Phishers are spoofing forms from reputable sources- think PayPal, large banks, etc. Considering the “advances”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/18/spam-targets-a-wide-field-of-users in phishing: correllating name, position, and email addresses for high-level corporate interests; these emails … Continue reading

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Fake Tor application delivers badware punch

You may have received an email over the past few days with a message about online privacy – a common subject line being “You are being watched online.” The messages urge the reader to download Tor, a distributed anonymity program … Continue reading

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