Archive for the 'Malware' Category
08 20th, 2009
Ryan.Naraine wrote an intriguing post today on
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Threat of different malware waiting for a chance to infect your computer is ever increasing. These harmful bugs are spyware, adware and viruses. You cannot safely connect to the Internet without an appropriate computer security software. If you connect without protection, you will notice soon that your computer’s performance has reduced. This can happen for example, when the register files of Windows are infected. So you need a program, which is able to remove spyware, adware and viruses from your computer.
The Internet provides a conduit by which spyware, adware and viruses can move from host to host. Email, email attachments, peer-to-peer file sharing, instant messaging, and software downloads are the ways computers usually are infected. Today spyware and viruses can attack through multiple entry points, spread without human intervention and take full advantage of vulnerabilities within a system or program. Technology is advancing everyday and the convergence of computers with […]
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08 17th, 2009
The PC Doctor wrote an intriguing post today on
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Twitter has been spammed, DDoS’ed, and knocked offline, and now it has been used as the command center for a botnet. A researcher last week was looking for clues about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Twitter found a Twitter profile that was being used to send updates and malware to bots in an […]
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08 17th, 2009
Darknet wrote an intriguing post today on
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Ah Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time it’s being used as the command channel for a Botnet.
The normal method for controlling Botnets is via an […]
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08 12th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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A Domain Naming System (DNS)-changing Trojan targeting Macs is currently making the rounds disguised as MacCinema Installer (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_JAHLAV.D. This is the latest variant of OSX_JAHLAV.C, which was identified in June.
The Trojan is supposedly a QuickTime Player update with the file name QuickTimeUpdate.dmg. As with its earlier variants, users are prompted to download the malware when trying […]
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07 17th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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For the first time criminal hackers may have succeeded in creating a network of “zombie” cellphones, infected with software that can be used to send spam or attack websites without the owners’ knowledge.
Botnets, as such networks are known, are usually made up of infected personal computers and are used to make money from spam or extortion. […]
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06 29th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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Just about everyone these days knows that the internet can be a pretty dangerous place to browse if you are not careful. With all the trojans, viruses, infected websites, scams, it seems that it is near impossible to keep yourself completely safe unless you just keep your computer unplugged from the internet. With all these […]
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06 26th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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I recently came across a form of online fraud that takes the guise of a legitimate-lookng news website. At first glance, the content of the purported news page appears real but after conducting further analysis, one will realize that the news page is actually a spammy site.
What’s supposed to be a news article is actually […]
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06 18th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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A new injection attack that redirects users’ Web search queries is in the wild, and researchers at Websense believe it may have already affected more than 40,000 sites. In a blog posted yesterday, Websense researchers indicated that more than 40,000 legitimate sites have been compromised with “obfuscated code that leads to a multilevel redirection attack, ending in […]
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05 29th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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Everyone now days is trying to make sure they stay safe while browsing the web for various reasons. The problem that is ever growing is that of the constant growth of malware infected websites that try to infect your computer when you simply visit those websites. They do everything from trying to steal your personal […]
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05 27th, 2009
Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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When you unbox a brand new computer, you presume that it’s lean, clean and pristine, right? The last thing you expect to find on a new system is malware. However, that’s one of the first things researchers at Kaspersky Labs found after purchasing and firing up a Companion Touch netbook, a $499 portable from M&A Technology. Kaspersky researcher […]
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