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Tag Archives: malware
Smartphones need better security safeguards
Are smartphone users more susceptible to phishing attacks than computer users? It would appear so, based on this recent case study posted by Trusteer CEO Mickey Boodaei. Trusteer looked at the log files of several phished sites and found that … Continue reading
China has a whole lot of Internet users
According to “a story at Wired.com”:http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_INTERNET_BOOM?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-25-02-43-59, Internet use in China is soaring: bq. China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to … Continue reading
Tagged china, malware, stopbadware
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The ZlobFather
Ars Technica “reports”:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-report-cybercrime-groups-starting-to-operate-like-the-mafia.html on a recent report by security vendor Finjan, describing how criminal malware groups are getting more organized, much like the Mafia in The Godfather or the drug gangs in The Wire: bq. Finjan describes the employee structure … Continue reading
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Guest Blog Post: The Future of Malware?
_StopBadware.org is glad to welcome Jon Kibler,the Chief Technical Officer of Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc., to author a blog post on the future of malware. Jon draws on his years as a security professional to provide insight into malware … Continue reading
Tagged future, guest, malware, stopbadware
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A Flash in the Pan
It “appears”:http://trailofbits.com/2008/05/28/flash-zero-day-attacks-wow/ that someone took advantage of an unpatched hole in Adobe Flash player, along with a SQL injection attack, to initiate a drive-by download to visitors of some 20,000 websites. The target? “It turns out that the whole attack … Continue reading
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Day Trading For Hackers
Brian Krebs at the Washington Post has “this nifty piece”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/05/the_click_fraud_stock_exchange_1.html about a website that appears to be set up to allow malicious hackers to buy and sell traffic to/from particular websites. As the post explains: bq. Set up a free … Continue reading
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Whose side is your hardware on?
In a paper titled “Designing and implementing malicious hardware”:http://www.usenix.org/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/king/king_html/ a team from University of Illinios Urbana (Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou) delved into the possiblity of malicious curcuits being used to … Continue reading
Microsoft: Web attacks on the rise
Robert McMillan over at ComputerWorld “reports”:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079558&intsrc=hm_listx that Microsoft has found a significant increase in web-based attacks in the past year: bq. Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious e-mail in favor of Web-based attacks, according … Continue reading
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iPowerWeb Update
“Nearly a year ago”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2007/05/04/stopbadware-identifies-hosting-providers-of-larged-numbers-of-sites-in-badware-website-clearinghouse we identified hosting providers with the greatest number of infected sites (found by Google) on their networks. At the time, the dubious honor of “leader” was held by iPowerWeb, with over 10,000 infected sites. At the … Continue reading
Tagged ipower, ipowerweb, malware, stopbadware
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Fun With Security
!http://www.securitycartoon.com/comic.php?c=20070507! Reproduced with permission[1]. Two security researchers with artistic tendencies, Srikwan & Jakobsson, have created a “set of cartoons”:http://www.securitycartoon.com to educate users on a wide variety of computer security topics. I think they tend to be a bit too focused … Continue reading
Tagged education, humor, malware, stopbadware
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