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25 most recent entries:
ZoneAlarm Pro FREE for one day (Nov 18 2008 07:11 GMT)
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd the company behind ZoneAlarm security solutions is likely to offer its product ZoneAlarm Pro security package for free with one year’s subscription. This offer is available for only 24 hours beginning 6 AM PDT on November 18, 2008. … [visit site to read more] Advt Limited period offer!
Rootkits: They?re sneaky, But are they a major threat? (Nov 16 2008 11:37 GMT)
"Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C. Used to infect Windows PCs and turn them into unwitting spam servers, Rustock.C is a rootkit that installs itself on the Windows operating system and then uses a variety of sophisticated techniques that make it nearly impossible to [...
Microsoft?s Stance on Piracy Affects Us All (Nov 16 2008 11:18 GMT)
"As it stands today, Microsoft’s policy allows pirated copies to receive patches automatically through AutoUpdate, yet forbids them from downloading them directly from Microsoft’s Web site. Despite some tweaks to its policy, however, the company continues to make it difficult for users of pirated versions of its operating system to patch reliably.
OSX.Lamzev.A - An OS X malware (Nov 16 2008 11:12 GMT)
A new trojan for the OS X has been discovered. When the Trojan is executed, it creates the following file: /Applications/ezmal … [visit site to read more]
Firefox 3.0.4 fixes several security issues (Nov 13 2008 12:36 GMT)
Mozilla today released Firefox 3.04 which addresses many several security issues among other bug fixes and exhancements. The update fixes the following critical issues: … [visit site to read more] Advt Limited period offer!
Microsoft explains seven-year-old patch delay (Nov 13 2008 12:21 GMT)
"Microsoft Corp. late yesterday explained why it had been unable to patch a seven-year-old bug until recently, saying that it was only in the last year that it figured out how to fix the flaw without breaking most network-based applications. … [visit site to read more] Advt Limited period offer!
Spam Drops After Internet Providers Disconnect a California Hosting Firm (Nov 13 2008 12:16 GMT)
"The servers are operated by McColo Corp., which these experts say has emerged as a major U.S. hosting service for international firms and syndicates that are involved in everything from the remote management of millions of compromised computers to the sale of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and designer goods, fake security products and child pornography via email.
VirusTrigger Analysis and Removal (Nov 13 2008 07:41 GMT)
VirusTrigger is a new entrant to the ever growing family of rogue security software products. A clone of the rouge Antivirus Lab, the software and their Website is very professional in design and uses a variety of aggressive scare messages about non-existent malware infections. VirusTrigger rogue antispyware
SURBL anti-spam blacklist to be a paid service (Nov 12 2008 05:59 GMT)
"The operator team of the SURBL anti-spam blacklist have announced a far-reaching change to the usage policy. While the use of the project’s DNS server has been free so far, the list’s operators are now demanding a usage fee from service providers that offer spam filter services for more than 1,000 mailboxes or 250,000 emails [...
Anti-malware Testing Guidelines Published (Nov 12 2008 05:55 GMT)
"The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization has published a set of best practices and guiding principles for testing security software. Call it a much-needed first step. … [visit site to read more] Advt Limited period offer!
Antispyware Pro XP Analysis and Removal (Sep 24 2008 18:22 GMT)
Antispyware Pro XP or Anti spyware Pro XP is one of the many variants belonging to the family of rogue security software. The following is an account of my experience with this rogue. What is a rogue security software, rogue anti-spyware, rogue anti-virus or rogue anti-malware software? A family of software products that call themselves as antivirus, [...]
Understanding Search Engine Privacy and How to prevent Snooping Part I (Sep 16 2008 10:30 GMT)
Search engines keep records of every search, ever made in a way that can be traced to individuals. They retain users’ search data -anonymized or not- to eternity. They put web cookies on their computers that makes it possible to match search queries to their computer address, their name…if they are logged in…
XP/Vista Antivirus 2008 Analysis and Removal (Sep 10 2008 05:51 GMT)
This rogue anti-malware application mostly installs via encoded re-directs from hacked web pages. When you happen to visit a hacked web page on a otherwise legitimate website your browser is automatically redirected to a rogue ware hosting website which shows a popup with a the text “Your computer is running slower than normal, maybe it [...]
Microsoft Plugs Critical Security Holes (Sep 10 2008 05:50 GMT)
"Microsoft released four "critical" security bulletins for September’s Patch Tuesday, including a massive update for Microsoft Windows GDI+ that affects multiple products.
Google cuts data retention period again (Sep 10 2008 05:48 GMT)
"last year, it bowed to pressure from the EU and shaved six months off its retention of identity information. In a further move to avert potential legislation, Google announced yesterday that it would cut the figure in half: IP addresses in its logs will now be anonymized after nine months. Google has some obvious interests in [...
EstDomains Inc: A Superlative Scam and Spam Site Registrar (Sep 09 2008 05:11 GMT)
"According to RegistrarStats.com, EstDomains is the 49th largest domain name registrar, with more than 270,000 domains. Security Fix is still working on cataloging all of those domains, but for the purposes of this analysis we’ll examine some 10,000 Web site names that are both registered through EstDomains and using the company’
Google issues first patches for Chrome (Sep 09 2008 05:09 GMT)
"Just days after it rolled out Chrome, Google Inc. issued an update after Vietnamese security researchers reported a critical vulnerability in the beta browser. According to Le Duc Anh, a researcher at Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (BKIS), which is housed at the Hanoi University of Technology, the Chrome beta posted last week contained a buffer overflow [...]
McAfee?s Artemis Putting Malware Signatures in the Cloud (Sep 09 2008 05:06 GMT)
"Essentially the idea is to offload some malware checks to an online database. When the software detects a program or file as being suspicious, probably through behavior checks, it takes some form of hash of the files involved and submits it in a database query to their most updated malware database. If a hit is [...]
Celebrity Malicious Spam Analysis and Removal (Sep 08 2008 11:37 GMT)
Recently my inbox was filled with spam containing subject lines "Re: Offical Update 2008" and number of catchy celebrity themed storm worm lines… I opened one of the spam mail with the paris hilton subject line and clicked on the single link which promised to let me view a previously unseen video of the celebrity.
Fake XP SecurityCenter Analysis and Removal (Sep 08 2008 11:35 GMT)
XP SecurityCenter is rogue antimalware application installed through dubious means like a link in a spam mail or through a link in a hacked website. It’s look-alike of the legitimate Windows Security Center and it does what other rogue antimalware apps do that is to scare the unfortunate victim by throwing various pop-up messages about [...]
Antivirus 2009: Analysis and Removal (Aug 22 2008 10:33 GMT)
This post analyzes the installation method of a rogue antivirus application Antivirus 2009 and its effective removal as observed by me. Antivirus 2009 is a fake antivirus application, designed to scare the users with fake alert screens about non-existent and often misleadingly named threats found on your system. When the user tries to clean the [...]
Seven online security blunders to avoid (Aug 22 2008 10:32 GMT)
“By now most personal-computer users know not to post their Social Security numbers on the Internet or respond to Nigerian e-mails seeking help with suspicious bank-account transfers. "But many people still make mistakes that compromise their computer’s security or invite identity thieves.
Rustock and Srizbi botnets share a common trojan (Aug 22 2008 10:27 GMT)
"Two of the world?s largest and most prolific spamming botnets have been spotted sharing a common bot malware-delivery method. But whether that means that the operators of the rival Rustock and Srizbi botnets are actually in cahoots is unclear, security researchers say. Rustock, which recently edged Srizbi for the top slot as the biggest spammer mostly [...
Opera fixes critical flaws (Aug 22 2008 10:23 GMT)
"Browser maker Opera released an update to its software on Thursday, closing serious security vulnerabilities in the versions of its software for Windows, Mac, Linux and other operating systems. The patch, which upgrades the Opera browser to version 9.5.2, closes 5 holes in Opera for Mac OS X, 6 holes in the Linux version and 7 [...
Malware: New attack hijacks the Clipboard (Aug 19 2008 04:48 GMT)
"The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed, leads people to a website selling fake security software. The code that inserts the link has been found in flash-based adverts seen on many legitimate websites. The attack on the clipboard has hit both Windows and Mac users of the Firefox web browser. "
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