This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Internet Worm, the first major worm that propagated on the Internet. Even though many years have passed and underlying media has changed, worms are still able to wreak havoc and keep system administrators up at night. Today the damage done by worms is far less [...]
With the exact number of end users interacting with phishing emails by submitting bogus data still unknown, phishers are on the other hand continuing to apply basic quality assurance processes ensuring that they will be collecting only validated credit card details, and limiting the opportunity for researchers and end users to poison their campaigns.
For instance, [...]
The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we’ve already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the popular social networking site is currently under attack from spammers that are automatically registering thousands of bogus accounts advertising fake online pharmacies, [...]
Guest editorial by Aviv Raff
If you ask any Opera fanboy, he will tell you that Opera is the most secured browser. Well frankly, it really is a good and secure browser, implementing many restrictions that other browsers simply ignore.
For example, while other browsers allow scripts running from local resources to access local files Opera [...]
Despite EstDomains persistent press releases during the last couple of days, next to the domain registrar’s delayed response to the security community, on Thursday the ICANN has sent a notice of termination of their registrar accreditation agreement with EstDomains, following obtained court records stating that EstDomains president Vladimir Tsastsin has been convicted of credit card [...]
