₤300 of Spam
Spammers in the UK may have met their match. English Internet guru Nigel Roberts stuck it to spammers in the UK using EU law. The company, Media Logistics, has agreed to pay ₤300 in fines to Robertson.
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Date: 2005-12-30
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China Pops Porn
Chinese authorities cracked down on Internet porn, saying on Friday they shut down 598 web sites. This the latest attempt by the Chinese government to crack down on illicit Internet activities, but they said fraud and online gambling continue to proliferate.
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Date: 2005-12-30
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More Cookies In Washington: Off To the White House
It would seem the National Security Agency (NSA) isn't the only organization watching who visits their site. The White House also appears to be in on this particularly illegal activity. Reports surfaced that cookies, banned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), not only were being used by the NSA but by the White House as well.
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Date: 2005-12-30
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Going Once…Going Twice…eBay Buster Faces 10 Years
A Beaverton, OR. man pleaded guilty to the 2003 denial-of-service attack against Internet auction house eBay. The crime involved infecting tens of thousands of computers and with a worm and utilizing that network to assault eBay.
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Date: 2005-12-29
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NSA Uses Illegal Cookies On Web Site
The National Security Agency (NSA) appears to be in a bit of a spot. In their zealous efforts to monitor telecomm traffic of all kinds, they utilized cookies on visitors to their site, an activity strictly banned by federal rules.
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Date: 2005-12-29
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Panda’s Most Wanted
Panda software released their top ten most wanted viruses and spyware on Thursday. The list covers what was most frequently picked up by the ActiveScan system.
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Date: 2005-12-29
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Sony BMG Settling One Rootkit Lawsuit
Sony BMG is in the process of settling one class action suit against them for their recent fiasco. The preliminary settlement was submitted for court approval. The rootkit fiasco was discovered several weeks ago and this discovery extracted a heavy price from Sony BMG.
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Date: 2005-12-29
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AOL’s Top Spam Dishes In 2005
Spam is always a favorite food in the tech world and 2005 was no different. AOL published their top recipes for the delightful dish for the past year. Topping the list were things like Donald Trump and "penis patch" but there were others.
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Date: 2005-12-29
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New Years’ Bagles Need Locks
Bagles are always a tasty breakfast, even at New Years. This year is no different. A whole new slew of viral emails are making the rounds and they're loaded with Bagles. The warnings are out for folks to update their virus protection.
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Date: 2005-12-28
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Florida Attorney General Spamming?
Many people see spam email as a vile thing. Many legislators and other elected officials rail against spam as one of the evils of the modern world. It is. Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist (R-FLA) has taken up the cause against spamming but it appears he may be a spammer himself.
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Date: 2005-12-28
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Korean Bank Hacked By Chinese Hackers
The Jeonkuk Mutual Savings Banks out of Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, had its website hacked by Chinese hackers. This is the first time a domestic bank was hacked by Chinese hackers.
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Date: 2005-12-28
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NSA Sends Out Spyware
Scandals continue runs rampant through the nation over recent admissions by the federal government of eavesdropping. The issue has tuned into an argument over presidential powers. One aspect to this argument focuses on the Internet world. The NSA uses spyware as part of their electronic eavesdropping network.
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Date: 2005-12-27
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Complex Trojans Go After Online Banking
A new Trojan virus is making its rounds, focusing on Spanish-speaking Internet users who utilize online banking. The virus combines social engineering via instant messenger and uses spyware and phishing.
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Date: 2005-12-27
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Visa Faces Merchant Hacks
The massive credit card empire known as Visa may be facing a serious problem after the company admitted a merchant experienced a security breach. This breach compromised credit card numbers and all the accompanying information on the account.
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Date: 2005-12-27
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Virus Poses MSN Messenger 8 Beta
It would appear the MSN's Messenger 8 Beta was leaked. But it wasn't. There is no MSN Messenger 8 Beta available yet. A new virus is floating around the web posing as bootlegged version of the new instant messenger. There are two ways to get it but users must actually download it. So don't.
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Date: 2005-12-27
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New Flavors of Bagles
It would seem new variants on the ever-popular Bagle are running around. The folks at Finnish security company, F-Secure, said they've picked up on a Bagle-related downloader and a number of variants floating around the Internet.
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Date: 2005-12-23
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iTunes and Quicktime Problems Exposed
An independent researcher discovered some problems with .mov media files and it's being rated as critical by security firms. The flaw could create real problems for folks using either iTunes or Quicktime.
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Date: 2005-12-23
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Texas Saddles Another Claim On Sony
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reloaded his shootin' iron and has spyware killers as he filed new claims against Sony BMG. Abbott levied charges of deceptive trade practices for hiding spyware in the disc against the multinational music company.
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Date: 2005-12-23
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Charges of Spyware Against 180Solutions, Direct Revenue and eXact
Three companies were named as defendants in a class action suit filed yesterday in California Superior Court in San Joaquin County, charging distribution of spyware and malware. The companies' names include 180Solutions, Direct Revenue and eXact and the suit calls for them to stop distribution of their software and pay damages.
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Date: 2005-12-22
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A Merry Trojan Christmas
Every year, many people are lacking for clever gift ideas that everyone will find appealing, especially the person you're purchasing for. This year, a new gift has surfaced for email users everywhere. A new Trojan has arisen called MerryX.A and it uses the splendid holiday to sucker in people and infect their computer.
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Date: 2005-12-22
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French Fire Guns In File Sharing War
One must occasionally love the French. File sharing has become a serious pain in the arse for many a company producing music, movies or software. France however likes to make the pain really burn and they did. The French Parliament passed a law late last night, legalizing free file sharing of music and movies on the Internet. This is going to create a problem for media companies and the government itself.
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Date: 2005-12-22
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Gang Of Hackers Arrested in Moscow
A gang of suspected hackers was charged with breaking codes to slots machines the Russian Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. It's believed these hackers made off with tens of thousands of dollars in the scam.
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Date: 2005-12-21
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Sober Worm Nabs Kiddy Porn Collector
It's always odd how things turn out. The Sober-Z worm has been annoying to many to say the least. It floated around with CIA or FBI email addresses or in some cases the German equivalent called the Bundeskriminalamt or Federal Crime Office. The wormed emails did catch one person by surprise and it turned out well. The person was a child pornography collector.
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Date: 2005-12-20
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A Case of Hacker Extortion
The hackers hit another company. This time the company was well-known role-playing game company White Wolf Publishing. While they don't suspect any credit card numbers were stolen, the hackers did say they would post the account information they received on the Internet unless paid.
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Date: 2005-12-20
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Sunbelt Completes Purchase of Kerio
Sunbelt Software announced on Tuesday the completion of their acquisition of Kerio Personal Firewall from Kerio Technologies. The well-known firewall service will make a strong addition to Sunbelt and includes the Kerio ServerFirewall designed for Windows server operating systems.
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Date: 2005-12-20
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You Know Dasher And…
An appropriately names worm called Dasher-B is floating around as the holiday season is upon us. Sophos Labs came out with a statement regarding the new worm, which exploits vulnerabilities documented by Microsoft earlier in the year. Sophos is warning people to update their anti-virus protection and security patches are up-to-date.
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Date: 2005-12-19
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Iraq Security, Technology & Communications Summit
An upcoming summit in Iraq focusing on a variety of issues will cover a lot of ground in the struggling country. The Iraq Security, Technology & Communications Summit will bring in minister, deputies and director generals from the Iraqi Ministries of Defense, Interior, Communications, Science and Tech, along with the Iraqi National Security Council.
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Date: 2005-12-19
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Dutch Hackers – 1/Xbox 360 – 0
Why do they do it? Because they can. The Dutch hacker group, Team PI Coder dug into the Xbox 360 and hacked the game console not two weeks after it was released. Apparently, the team didn't have much of problem cracking the console either.
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Date: 2005-12-16
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Meth Heads and ID Fraud
A new trend in the illicit drug world is to generate income for the purchase of said drugs through identity fraud. It's an easy way for junkies, particularly meth heads, to get the kind of money they need to support their habit.
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Date: 2005-12-16
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iDefense: TrendMicro ServerProtect Vulnerability
iDefense announced vulnerabilities in TrendMicro ServerProtect. The remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system. The remote user will also be able to view files an cause denial of service conditions. Not good for a company who's supposed to stop this stuff.
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Date: 2005-12-15
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Best Practices Guide For Email Marketers
The Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC) just released their "ESPC Best Practices Guide." The book is a list of guidelines that help reinforce the industry best practices for email communications and includes an updated version of the "ESPC Email Marketing Pledge." The guide covers a number of areas including permission, disclosure, address collection, content relevancy, unsubscribe practices and referrals.
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Date: 2005-12-15
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E-Voting Security Plagues Diebold
Electronic voting machine maker Diebold continues to have a number of problems. Most recently, the CEO of Diebold resigned the top position the company. This resignation happened on Monday, just before a shareholder lawsuit was filed by a Connecticut law firm charging the company execs tried to downplay voting system issues in the last election.
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Date: 2005-12-15
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UK: Internet Villain of the Year
This year has been a tough year for the UK, particularly as President of the European Union. They've dealt with terrorist attacks in London and fought with European nations over various issues in for the EU. One area they've been relentless in is toughening data retention laws and as such, they've earned the "Internet Villain of the Year."
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Date: 2005-12-14
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Another Problem For Patch Tuesday
The monthly Microsoft event known as "Patch Tuesday" has become somewhat of a mixed blessing for Microsoft in recent months as they often come with caveats. This month, the updated corrected a "Critical" flaw and an "Important flaw. It also causes some approval problems for previously approved updates.
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Date: 2005-12-14
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Microsoft’s Exchange “12” Beta 1
Redmond-based Microsoft announced the release of their Exchange "12" Beta 1. This is the highly secretive code name for their server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging to the first round of testers.
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Date: 2005-12-14
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Firefox Hates Long URLS
The kids at Mozilla say they've got a problem with long URLs in the Firefox 1.5, the latest release of the up and coming browser. Sites with long domain names make it seem like the computer has crashed.
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Date: 2005-12-13
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Microsoft Update or Trojan Virus?
In yet another annoying move, virus writers have done something new. They've created a new Trojan virus looking incredibly like a spammed Microsoft Security update email. It goes through the motions of the standard update and the great thing is, on the initial run, only a few of the virus scanners picked it up.
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Date: 2005-12-12
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Airport Security Codes Stolen From Japanese Pilot
Japanese Airlines (JAL) reported one of their co-pilots had restricted codes stolen from his laptop computer via a computer virus. In a move worthy of the best laxatives, the pilot compromised security for a number of Japanese airports as all the codes were promptly posted to the Internet.
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Date: 2005-12-12
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Firefox Users Watch Out
The kids at Mozilla just released 1.5 and everyone's excited. It also just crack double digit market share so it's moving along nicely, especially in the face of still dominant Internet Explorer (IE). The open source browser has gained a lot of popularity but as it does, hackers are also taking notice.
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Date: 2005-12-12
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eBay gets Phished Out of The Water
Online auction house eBay just got suckered by a phishing scam and they're not sure why. Apparently, the scam site was so good, they thought it was one of their own. It does make one wonder about the people working in eBay's security section.
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Date: 2005-12-09
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Podjacked Wars: Episode III
A controversy is brewing on the Internet (isn't there always). This time around the notion of hijacked RSS feeds. Most recently, one Erik Marcus, owner of the Vegan.com and his podcast Erik's Diner accused Podkeyword of podjacking or hijacking the feed for his podcast.
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Date: 2005-12-09
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Vulnerability Auction On eBay
From time to time, eBay ends up with items for sale that make the casual observer raise their eyebrows. One recent case involved William Shatner, his kidney stones and starships. Most recently, the online auction monster pulled down something not quite so odd but potentially destructive, a vulnerability in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.
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Date: 2005-12-09
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AOL Now Offers Security Suite
Lots of companies are offering security software these days. AOL is now offering their version of a security suite. They launched this venture on Tuesday and it works against viruses, spyware and identity fraud.
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Date: 2005-12-08
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Nazi Computer Worms Looking For Hitler’s Brain
So the headline's a little strange but the release of a new worm isn't. iDefense, a division of Verisign, reports the next planned attack of the Sober worm is slated to start on January 5th, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack coincides with the 87th anniversary of founding the Nazi party.
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Date: 2005-12-07
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FBI Approval On All Software
What's in your computer? Most people have a wide variety of software they've either purchased or downloaded. If the FCC has its way, in the future, all software will be FBI approved. While the policy document was released in September, the conversation needs to remain open about this.
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Date: 2005-12-06
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Security Fluff: Hottest Ladies In Security
There's generally not too much in the way of silliness and fun regarding Internet security, identity fraud and cybercrime in general. Once in a blue moon, some creeps up though and there's a need to mention it. This time, it's the "hottest ladies in the security industry for 2005."
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Date: 2005-12-05
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Sober: Internet Enemy #1
Tommy guns don't do a lot of good against this particular enemy. You can't put the light on ‘em, no good pigeons to squeal. Nope… this enemy spreads like a disease to unsuspecting victims under the guise of the CIA and FBI. The Sober virus has reached the upper echelons with hundreds of millions of these critters tagged and bagged. There's a lot more out there though.
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Date: 2005-12-02
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180 Solutions Sues Zone Labs
Kirkland, Washington-based 180 Solutions (180S) has filed suit against Internet security firm Zone Labs based on how Zone Labs rates 180S in their anti-spyware program. The program was warning that software by the marketing firm should be considered armed and dangerous.
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Date: 2005-12-02
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Sunbelt Buys Kerio
Sunbelt Software announced on Thursday their plan to acquire Kerio Personal Firewall and be finalized by the end of the month. Sunbelt provides security software. Kerio is perhaps best known as one of two free firewalls left on the net.
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Date: 2005-12-02
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Podcast Perturbations: Feedjacked
A new form of an old crime happened recently. Podcaster Erik Marcus recently had his RSS feed redirected, hijacked if you will, and the person in question is demanding payment to release the podcast. The problem is the companies who could help Marcus haven't.
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Date: 2005-12-02
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IM Threats Skyrocket Over the Past Year
Instant Message threats are growing at an alarming rate. A report from the IMlogic Threat Center says that IM security threats have increased by a whopping 3,266 percent from November 2004 to November 2005.
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Date: 2005-12-01
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