Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 31, 2008
Botnets have become more and more of a concern lately, thanks to the Storm Worm. Storm is believed to have created the net's largest botnet, with somewhere between 5-10 million computers turned...
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GFI has announced it has added support for these recent Microsoft Security Updates: MS08-002 Severity Rating: Important Vulnerability in LSASS Could Allow Local Elevation of Privilege (943485)...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 31, 2008
Infamous spammer Sanford Wallace has been busted again-this time for using Myspace to spread his spam and spyware. Wallace began his spamming career more than a decade ago, resulting in lawsuits from...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 29, 2008
A new wave of spam claiming to be a money transfer notice from western union is delivering a nasty piece of malware-a keylogger. The email claims over $3,000 has been transferred to the recipient and...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on January 28, 2008
PDF spam has returned. According to management services vendor MX Logic, PDF spam accounted for .5% of all spam volume last week. "It could be somebody testing the waters or it could be the calm...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 26, 2008
Malware is no laughing matter, but here is a new and informative video from Trend Micro that takes a lighter approach to explaining and examining malware.......
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on January 25, 2008
According to a researcher at Websense Inc, spammers are now using thousands of Google accounts to get past spam filters. Instead of including links to the website they want people to visit, they...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 24, 2008
A large scale attack is occurring against Linux Apache web servers. According to Don Jackson, a senior researcher at SecureWorks, the attack has been successful because it uses an automated password...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 23, 2008
In a particularly tasteless example of hackers using SEO to spread their malicious files, Trend Micro is reporting that within hours of the news that popular actor heath ledger had been found dead in...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 22, 2008
A new worm targeting the Symbian OS has launched an attacks on cell phone networks. The worm, called SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, is able to run on Symbian S60 enabled phones. This includes Nokia 6600, 6630,...
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Credit issuer GE Money has announced that a computer tape containing the personal data of 650,000 customers of major retailers such as JC Penney is missing. The tape also contained the Social Security...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 19, 2008
According to Ferris Research, spam can cost over $500 per user a year. Even with spam filters in place, they claim it still costs $140 per user a year. It also results in lost productivity and higher...
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Filed in archive Phishing
by Sue Walsh on January 19, 2008
Here's a video from LiveSecurity exposing a phishing attack directed at US Bank. It explains all the techniques phishers use and how to spot them, and actually examines a malicious website...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 19, 2008
An anonymous programmer going by the name "John Wane" has claimed to have cracked Yahoo's CAPTCHA software. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans...
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Here at IGotSpam, we report on the various trends related to spam, malware, porn popups, and what have you. Rarely do we see someone write an entertaining song about it and put it up on the Internet...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 18, 2008
MySpace is under attack again. According to Marshal's TRACE team, it involves spam that pretends to be a legitimate invitation to join MySpace. It contains a link that redirects to a fake MySpace...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 17, 2008
A security firm called Finjan has discovered over 10,000 websites infected by a toolkit called "random js toolkit". The kit stores the IP addresses of web crawlers sent by anti-virus tools...
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The University of Liverpool has selected GFI MailSecurity for it's email security needs. As on of the UK's leading universities, it depends on email as it's foremost means of...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 14, 2008
trend micro is reporting that spammers have found a new way to attack-networked printers. The attack, called Cross Site Printing for Spamming, relies on a built in, rarely used feature om such...
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Oracle plans to release 27 patches on Thursday. This includes 8 database patches, 6 server patches, and 7 e-business suite patches. Here is a list of products affected: Oracle Database 11g, version...
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Filed in archive Phishing
by Sue Walsh on January 12, 2008
The latest phishing attack involves an official looking government message from the National Payroll Consortium that claims that the recipients' employer has been caught attempting to fraudulently...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on January 11, 2008
F-Secure is reporting that a number of phishing sites have appeared within the last 24hrs on domains associated with the Storm Worm. Experts speculate that the latest variations of the worm use...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 10, 2008
According to Symantec a new rootkit has been found. The kit, named Trojan.Mebroot, lurks in a PC's master book record. What's particularly nasty about this one is it's beginning to infect...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on January 09, 2008
A systems administrator at health care firm Medco Health Solutions Inc, was sentenced to 30 months in jail for a hacking scheme that involved the planting of a "logic bomb" in the...
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