ICANN Scrubs Net Of Malware Haven
Too little too late for EstDomains, and if you're too late to do anything before ICANN gets you then you're pretty darn slow. The quasi-private overseer of the Internet sent a shattering blow to the registrar via contractual technicality, shutting the company down and sending malware agents scattering.
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Date: 2008-10-31
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Spammers Break CAPTCHAs, Exploit Social Networks
Spammers have evolved to perpetrate some pretty complicated schemes to get their wares (and warez) to large audiences. Recently they've shown sophistication beyond simple mailings by breaking CAPTCHA codes, enlisting decoy social networking sites and blogs, and even some search engine optimization.
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Date: 2008-10-30
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Malicious Spam Up Eight Fold In 3Q
The number of malicious attachments increased eight-fold in the third quarter of 2008 over the previous quarter, according to Sophos. Between July and September, one in every 416 email messages contained a malicious attachment, up from one in every 3,333.
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Date: 2008-10-29
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Your Keyboard Is Telling On You
Here's some news likely to make you a little queasy: Researchers have discovered a way to intercept keystrokes on a wired keyboard by intercepting electromagnetic waves emanating from the keyboard's connector wire.
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Date: 2008-10-28
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Google And Yahoo Tout Secure Searching
Google's blog post about its "This site may harm your computer" warning in the search results and how webmasters can have Google check their sites for infections comes at an interesting time considering these aren't new features. Could it have something to do with Yahoo's multimedia campaign about its deal with McAfee?
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Date: 2008-10-27
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Phishers Step Up Ops During Banking Crisis
Spammers and phishers are going about it all wrong. If they want a really big payoff they should have gotten into mortgage lending-even if you suck at it the government gives you money! Maybe online scammers are reconsidering, because there's been a huge spike in banking crisis-related attacks lately.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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Sarkozy Gets Pwned
Google Translate says the French word for pwned is pwned, which is no fun at all. Let's say instead French President Nicolas Sarkozy's cybersecurity gets a big red l'échec épique (epic fail). Le président's bank account was hacked.
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Date: 2008-10-20
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Emerging Cyber Threats For 2009
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) has released the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009, outlining the top five areas of security concern and risk for consumer and business Internet users in the coming year.
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Date: 2008-10-16
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Careful, YouTube Can Be a Puper
A Trojan horse Puper isn't what it sounds like-if you're like me, you thought Of course that's how they got out! When security researchers start using phrases like "porn-spewing malware," they don't make it sound much better.
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Date: 2008-10-06
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