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Tag Archives: security
StopBadware partners with StopTheHacker, Arbor Networks
It’s of the utmost importance to us that we try to provide a variety of perspectives and fresh content via this blog. We’ll be the first to admit, however, that redundancy is sometimes cause for rejoicing. In this case, “sometimes” … Continue reading
Bridging the awareness gap: the need for better communications in the anti-malware space (Part 2)
This is the second half of a two-part blog post. For exposition, see “Bridging the awareness gap: the need for better communications in the anti-malware space (Part 1).” One person who read The New York Times’ first piece on Dr. … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, malware, security, stopbadware, warnings, webmaster education
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The App Store giveth and the App Store taketh away
The other day, the JoshMeister blogged about the Mac App Store and the effect of its approval delays in getting critical security updates to users. Third-party Web browser maker Opera has released version 11.11 of its software, which fixes a … Continue reading
Tagged apple, appstore, mac, security
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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
Tom Patterson has it wrong
I'm a little behind in my blog reading, so I just came across this post by ComputerWorld blogger Tom Patterson, insisting that we should avoid modern conveniences that have the potential to introduce security risks: We are often our own … Continue reading
Top 8 Cyber Security Practices
The National Cyber Security Alliance, which is coordinating the effort designating October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, has a list of the "Top 8 Cyber Security Practices." This list, although not new to many in the StopBadware community, is … Continue reading
Tagged ncsa, security, stopbadware
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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
Bavarian Government Gets Up Close and Personal
The German state of Bavaria has approved laws that “allow the police to plant spyware”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_plan/ on the computers of suspected terrorists. While German federal laws restrict the government to infecting computers with email, Bavarian laws allow police to enter a … Continue reading
Forty percent of users use insecure web browser
Brian Krebs at the Washington Post “reports”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/40_percent_of_web_users_surf_w_1.html on a “study”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/paper-insecurity-iceberg.pdf that found that 40% of Google users do not have all the latest security updates for their web browser. This means they’re susceptible to a broader range of drive-by download … Continue reading
Tagged browsers, security, stopbadware
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Trojan Horses Nip at Apple Vulnerabilities
Software company Intego found this “Mac Trojan”:http://www.intego.com/news/ism0803.asp masquerading as a poker game. The Trojan actually transmits the user’s name, password, and IP address to an external server which it acquires through clever social engineering: bq. “A corrupt preference file has … Continue reading
