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Microsoft plans to offer a free antivirus product, code-named “Morro,” in the second half of this year, when the company removes Windows Live OneCare from the retail market. But cautious consumers may want to keep their current antivirus programs, given Microsoft’s dubious track record with antivirus apps. Read entire article Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states that phishing isn’t as [...] The conclusion of the recent holiday season didn’t stop cybercriminals from creating new spoofed promos to distribute malware, of course. Very much similar to the social-engineering campaign that used McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, yet another spam run that distributes malware was recently found by Trend Micro researchers. Popular brands such as Ikea, Symantec, Jack Daniel’s, [...] Microsoft plans to ship a solitary security bulletin next Tuesday with fixes for a serious security problem in its flagship Windows operating system. The bulletin will carry a “critical” rating, which means that exploitation of the vulnerability could allow the propagation of an Internet worm without user action. According to an advance notice issued by [...] The retaliation against Israelis and Americans came in the form of hacktivism as more than 300 Israeli websites were found defaced just a few days after Israeli forces bombed Gaza. The attacks, which were dubbed part of a “Propaganda War,” resulted with the defaced sites containing anti-Israeli and anti-US messages. Despite the attack affecting Israeli [...] |
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