Following last week’s shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert’s operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo’s shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn’t seem to be the case. The short-lived 15% [...]
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Of the 50 riskiest terms to search across Google, Yahoo, Live, AOL and Ask in the US, “word unscrambler,” “lyrics,” “myspace” and “free music downloads” are the most dangerous, according to a report from online security firm Mcafee, which rates search terms based on their likelihood to return results that lead users to unsafe [...] Analysts of the recent Gumblar attack that compromised thousands of legitimate websites stated that the unauthorized modifications in the websites were possibly executed not only through SQL injection. The compromise was also reportedly done through accessing web server files through stolen FTP credentials gathered by one of the final malware payloads of the same [...] Microsoft released ten security advisories yesterday to address at least 31 vulnerability issues in its various Windows operating system (OS) versions and other software. This broke the company’s December 2008 record of releasing patches for 28 vulnerabilities. Six of the said vulnerabilities were categorized as critical, three were important, and one was moderate. This means [...] HijackThis™ is one of the well-known free utilities of Trend Micro that quickly scans a user’s Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware, or other unwanted programs. By itself, it does not determine what is good or bad but it lists registry keys and files system of the scanned [...] |
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