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Kaspersky, via PC Magazine, has graciously told the public to worry about mobile phone worms. I’m not worried, and there are many reasons why you shouldn’t be concerned… yet. It is commonly accepted that there have been very few pieces of mobile malware that have ever been spotted, and noted outbreaks are even less [...] Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson recently reported of spammers using a feature called ‘delivery receipt request’ to verify if a certain email address exists. Delivery receipts are messages sent to the original sender of an email message to verify that the sent message has been delivered to the intended recipient. While message delivery receipt [...] Password managers are a huge help in dealing with our exponentially growing numbers of accounts. But stand-alone apps introduce a new problem: If you aren’t sitting at the PC with the software installed, you can’t get to your credentials. Luckily, you have alternatives. These five password tools are all accessible either from a portable [...] Computer attacks in space are no longer the stuff of science fiction: Recently, laptops on the International Space Station turned out to have computer viruses. NASA believes that the malware–a password stealer that targets online games–may have infected the laptops via a USB thumb drive that one of the astronauts carried aboard. While it wasn’t [...] Never let a human do a malware infected host’s CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft’s “revisited” CAPTCHA, and are able to sign up Live Hotmail [...] |
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