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- Just a little something to keep in mind, going into the new year. 1. Thou shalt not buy merchandise found in pop-up ads or spam. 2. Thou shalt not post thy email address, phone number, address or social security number to the internet, nor shalt thou post anyone else's. |
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- The first few hours in the life of a new computer can play a vital role in determining its long-term reliability. Following on from last week's initial health checks, setting up the Internet connection and ensuring your new Windows XP PC is up to date, we turn our attention to configuration, software installation and backup. |
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- A software vendor's new technique for snuffing out spyware is raising questions over whether products such as it could crash computers by clashing with anti-virus tools that have used such methods for a decade. Aluria announced it has added what it calls Active Defense Shield to its software to intercept files and detect and eradicate spyware before it resides on a machine. This type of anti-malware technique is known as kernel-driver or on-access scanning. Many anti-virus vendors have embraced the method because it opens a file to wipe out malware before it lands. But the drawback is that if two or more vendors' products try to scan at once, the machine can crash. |
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- Remember when doctors used to make house calls? These days, it's more likely to be a doctor for your computer, printer or wireless router who's visiting your home. There's a growing industry of repair people to heal the PCs and other tech devices in your home or office. And increasingly, they're available at just about any time of day -- sometimes within the hour. Among the trends fueling the demand for such services: |
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- A time period between December and early January is traditionally the most suitable for getting spyware or virus infection. As the holiday season draws closer, Internet users begin greeting one another, and various marketing companies as well as small merchants intensify their advertising campaigns. There is nothing wrong in such a flurry, but yearly statistics just send into a tizzy: bogus e-greeting cards, fake salutatory e-mails and instant messages, loads of Christmas and New Year spam and finally seasonal advertisements leading to insecure web sites have been used to secretly install spyware, adware, browser hijackers, trojans, numerous keyloggers and other confidential data thieves into millions of computers every year. |
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- The Mozilla Foundation has issued a security advisory, acknowledging concerns about a potential flaw in its Firefox 1.5 browser that could cause a buffer overflow error. However, the browser company strenuously denied in its Sunday advisory that the problem would cause any lasting damage to the application. It maintains that the glitch is very easy to fix. The issue came to light last Wednesday, when the first exploit code for the potential vulnerability was published. |
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- Websense® Security Labs has received reports of a new phishing attack that targets customers of Marbles Bank. Users receive a spoofed email message, which claims that their account has been inactive for a period of time and must be accessed or it will be suspended. Users are given a link to a fraudulent website, where they are prompted to enter their user ID and password. After entering their user ID and password, they are prompted for credit card number, expiration date, and CVV number. This phishing site is hosted in the United Kingdom and was up at the time of this alert. |
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- What's more fun than making a 419 scammer's e-life as miserable as possible? Not much if you've ever visited http://419eater.com or http://scamorama. |
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- To plug a hole in its intrusion-prevention product, eEye Digital Security may adopt the Clam AntiVirus project and improve the open-source software. eEye's Blink intrusion-prevention product includes system- and application-level firewalls and protects computers against phishing, spyware and exploitation of known vulnerabilities. "Antivirus is the only missing piece," Ross Brown, eEye's chief operating officer, said in an interview with CNET News. |
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- Active Directory Group Policy settings are widely used to secure Windows systems because they can be customized to target and deploy to specific computers and users in an Active Directory-based network. In a previous blog post I warned that one of the risks of having end-users with local administrative privilege is that they can override group policy settings at will and I promoted limited-user accounts as the secure alternative. However, Windows administrators should be aware that if a user, even one running with a limited account, can execute just one program of their choice that they also can circumvent many group policy settings, including ones aimed specifically at tightening security such as Software Restriction Policies and Internet Explorer Zones. |
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- Banklis is a trojan that monitors user Internet activity in attempt to detect certain online banking services. Once the user enters such sites, the trojan begins to record all the keystrokes in order to steal user account details. Gathered data may be stealthily transferred to the remote attacker. Banklis automatically runs on every Windows startup. |
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- When a security researcher discovers a vulnerability in a product, who really owns that discovery? Most people would agree that the credit for the find should go the security, but should that person be able to profit from their work? If you ask iDefense or 3COM you will most likely get the answer: ‘yes’. That is because these companies are in the business of buying exploits from researchers and then working with various software vendors to get the problem corrected (for profit). |
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- All over the Internet all I see are people ranting and whining about how evil Sony is. Well, this is my rant about Sony. At the risk of taking a controversial position, I am going to have to side with Sony on this one. I believe it is entirely within Sony’s rights to use rootkit technology to protect their intellectual property. (knee jerkers, why don’t you ignore the rest of my article and start flame posting now? |
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- You've probably heard of phishing scams: fraudulent e-mail messages or fake Web sites designed to steal your identity. Scam artists "phish" in an attempt to persuade millions of people to disclose sensitive information. |
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- Websense® Security Labs has received reports of a new phishing attack that targets customers of Picatinny Federal Credit Union. Users receive a spoofed email, which claims that their account has an unconfirmed email address, and that access to the account will be limited unless there is additional user confirmation. Users are given a link to a fraudulent website to confirm the email address by providing account credentials. This phishing site is hosted in Germany and was down at the time of this alert. |
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- Not so long ago, viruses were just one of those little annoyances that come along with using a computer, akin to the gnat that orbits your head at the family picnic. But over the past few years, those pesky little pieces of code have steadily moved from simply popping up messages on your screen or deleting your Word files; they now target specific industries and serve as tools for real criminals. Unfortunately, changes happen so quickly that computer security policies struggle to keep pace. Whereas once a mere daily virus scan of a user's PC could clean up the virus problem and a firewall could keep out prowlers, today a much more in-depth, multifaceted, layered approach is the only way to truly protect your valuable assets. |
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- The assumption that network port scans are a precursor to attempted hacks into computers may be flawed, according to research from the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. An analysis of quantitative attack data gathered by the university over a two-month period shows that port scans precede attacks only about 5% of the time, said Michel Cukier, a professor in the Center for Risk and Reliability at the engineering school. The results of the research were released publicly last week. |
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- There are many examples where users are now being inundated with pop-up messages asking them to respond to things they don't know about or don't understand, and it leads to weaker security overall. Context and knowledge is everything. With it, the strangest things can make sense; without it, the strangest things sound, well, strange. For instance, I like to keep track of some of the conversations my wife Denise and I have, as many of them are positively surreal. |
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- Dinoxi, also known as Dioxin, is a dangerous worm that spreads through instant messages using the AOL Instant Messenger program. It sends messages containing a certain text and malicious links pointing to infected files to all the users on the AIM contact list. Once a victim clicks on such link, the worm installs itself to the system and displays a message containing swear-words. Then Dinoxi initiates a spreading routine and runs a payload. The worm opens a back door providing the attacker with unauthorized remote access to a compromised computer. |
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- Microsoft Corp. is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista. The company will use upcoming industry shows to sing the praises of improvements to the Windows networking stack and secure networking techniques such as server and domain isolation to sell both Vista and "Longhorn," the planned update to Windows Server. |
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- Websense® Security Labs has received reports of a new phishing attack that targets customers of ICBA Bancard &1 TCM Bank. Users receive a spoofed email, which claims that their online account requires additional personal information for enhanced security, and that access to the account will be limited pending further information. Users are given a link to a fraudulent website, where they are prompted to enter their account information. This phishing site is hosted in Korea and was down at the time of this alert. |
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- State lawmakers have crafted a bill that, if passed, would make New Hampshire the first state in the nation to regulate so-called "spy chips" in an effort to protect consumer privacy. The full House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the measure, House Bill 203, in January. State lawmakers and advocates say it represents the most complete effort so far among the states to address the use of radio frequency identification, or RFID, microchips. |
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- The SANS Institute warned that U.S. government, military contractor, and bank computer systems are facing a barrage of attacks from overseas hackers, and that network-security management lacks the training to mount an adequate defense. "American government and corporate computer systems are being riddled with online attacks," |
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- A systematic effort by hackers to penetrate US government and industry computer networks stems most likely from the Chinese military, the head of a leading security institute said. The attacks have been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong, and the techniques used make it appear unlikely to come from any other source than the military, said Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an education and research organization focusing on cybersecurity. |
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- We’ve heard some concerns about the potential impact of recent IE updates, and I want to give you background on these updates so you can understand the impact. It is a top goal of ours to keep users safe and web pages working as the author intended. The great majority of users and developers should not be negatively impacted by recent IE security changes. However, there is potential for any code change to change how a web page works, which is why we are very careful about deciding what changes we release. |
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- Just when you thought it was safe to play holiday carols over the office network, a new malware threat has surfaced on even more Sony CDs. And virus and worm writers are getting into the spirit of the season as well with the release of a new IM threat. Sony CDs continue to cause controversy as an unrelated threat emerges, and black hats are ramping up for the holidays with a new instant messaging worm designed to trick more security-conscious users. |
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- Consumers and businesses today have attained a certain level of trust regarding online activity and interactions. They don’t hesitate to provide financial information via their bank’s Web site, use Web applications to shop online, book flights via the Web, or access corporate Intranets to communicate sensitive internal information. This has presented a new challenge for enterprises as they continue to build more complex applications to run their online businesses. Secure application development requires a constant balancing act between functional requirements and business drivers, deadlines and limited resources, and risk and flexibility. Success comes to organizations that build security into all phases of their application development lifecycle. |
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- Ixbot is an Internet worm, which spreads through instant messages sent using AIM, AOL Triton or MSN Messenger programs. Such messages contain a certain text and a malicious link pointing to an infected file. Once the user clicks on a link, the worm silently installs itself to the system and runs a spreading routine. The worm includes an integrated IRC-controlled backdoor, which provides the attacker with unauthorized remote access to a compromised computer. The intruder can download and execute arbitrary files. |
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