Earlier today, Trend Micro Technical Account Manager Fioravante Souza in Brazil spotted a (potentially harmful) URL that redirects users from the Best Buy domain site.
Users who visit www.bestbuy.com, as it turns out, are redirected to the URL, hxxp://pics. bubbled.cn/gallery/
hardcore/?23c4f60c1b9f604d6ffb21cba599301f (hxxp = http, and without the spaces). The compromised page in the domain is found to [...]
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Michael Jackson has been dead for a week already, but there are still a lot of speculations regarding his death. The spam runs are plenty as well — a Michael Jackson-related spam was seen bearing the subject Who killed Michael Jackson?, coming from a sender named x-files.
The spam message suggests that the icon was killed, [...]
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How severe can the impact of the Conficker worm be on a single city council that has apparently not implemented basic security solutions in place?
Pretty severe according to a recently released a report entitled “Service interruption resulting from ICT disruption in February 2009” which details the financial costs of a Conficker incident affecting Manchester City [...]
Exactly three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause severe [...]
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On June 23, Jakob Nielsen posted an article declaring that password masking on the user interface is more harmful in terms of usability than helpful to the security of an application to which Bruce Schneier, in a June 26 blog post agreed. Both argued that masking the characters when a user enters a password is [...]
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To *** or Not to Mask: Usability Versus Security in Password Masking
