If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned into zombies can be forced to distribute spam, steal identity credentials and intellectual property, log keystrokes, commit click fraud [...]
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In a recent post, I recommended Panda’s Cloud Antivirus as a decent free antivirus program. Others have recommended different programs, and that’s fine – in the end, I don’t think there’s much meaningful difference between the various antivirus programs, at least in terms of security. Much more important than which antivirus program you use [...] Hotmail users need to be wary about a malicious spam run that specifically targets users of the said webmail. Senior Security Analyst Rik Ferguson reports that spam messages arrive with text indicating that it has file attachments that are image files with the JPEG format. In truth however, the file names of attachments are [...] LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers. The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication [...] Today Trend Micro researchers discovered a spoofed (fake) version of the popular Russian social networking site vkontakte.ru. Visitors of the spoofed site risk exposing their personal login credentials to a third party. Vkontakte.ru is roughly the Russian equivalent of Facebook and is very popular in Russian-speaking countries. According to the site itself it has more [...] |
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