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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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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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Before I get started with this article, I would just quickly like to apologize for the lack of updates the past few weeks on the site. I have been in the middle of moving into my new location and it seemed that  the apartment complex was still trying to get the internet all setup when […]

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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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Shortened URLs are great for character-conscious Tweeters, marketers who want to track Web site visitors, and even perhaps an opportunity for venture capitalists who are investing in companies such as Bit.ly.
But they are also providing a boon to spammers.
MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam had skyrocketed over the […]

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A little over three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause […]

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Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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It’s a long weekend and you’re happy because you’ll get to spend the next three days with your family. You left the office in an excited mood but as the cab was approaching home, you suddenly realized that you forgot to shut down the Office PC. Oops!
It’s a sinking feeling because there’re so many confidential […]

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A U.S. district court has ordered key players in an international spam ring to give up $3.7 million they made by sending out illegal email messages pitching bogus Hoodia weight-loss products and a “human growth hormone” pill they claimed reversed the aging process.
In a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) law enforcement action, the court found that […]

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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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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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