On their blog, Google posted information about an attack that targeted potentially tens of thousands of users who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software. The main payload of the malware was to spy and to participate in distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against various blogs that containing political articles. One way to survive those DDOS attacks is to use our [...]
Recently there is a lot of spam claiming to be from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that have as attachment an executable file, tax-statement.exe and with the following subject: Subject: Underreported Income Notice. Be aware, do not open/run the executable file because it’s actually a malicious file. IRS doesn’t send any kind of notifications via e-mail. This is just another [...]
The Swedish service provider Netnod, appears to have resolved a problem that was causing some Internet sites to be inadvertently censored by a system set up in the People’s Republic of China. China uses the DNS protocol to enforce censorship on its so-called Great Firewall of China. That’s why several ISP (Internet Service Providers) from Chile and US, were providing faulty DNS information. So ISP [...]
A few days ago FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) launched www.bandittrackernortheast.com. The new website features color photos and descriptions of bank robbers and allows people to see all the bank robbers who are being sought throughout the 13 counties covered by the FBI’s New York office and the 18 counties covered by the FBI’s New Jersey office. Also, the site features a map [...]
Google has just introduced a new useful security feature for Gmail accounts. This feature will track and display all suspicious logins to their e-mail accounts. The feature is currently available for the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Using several criteria it determines whether logins are legit or not . If not it [...]
Mozilla has released Monday Evening an update for Firefox to plug a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Security researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported that the WOFF decoder contains an integer overflow in a font decompression routine. This flaw could result in too small a memory buffer being [...]
Vodafone HTC MAGIC According to Movil Zona (Spanish Technology Website) ~ 3000 memory cards supplied by Vodafone Spain were infected with the Mariposa bot client. A spoke person from Vodafone has told that this is a “local incident” and that they will provide the customers new memory cards. They have also offered to supply them with tools to restore the [...]
Today BitDefender had a huge false positive, when the 64bit version managed to detect many system files and Microsoft Office executables as Trojan.FakeAlert.5. If that isn’t enough, there are reports that even it’s own files are detected. The official answer is: “The problem is only affecting users of the x64 versions of BitDefender. A fix will be delivered via automatic updates as [...]
Even though 2010 started with four botnets tackled via arrests or net access cutoffs, spammers survive. “So as far as impact on spam goes it has been minimal,” said Rik Ferguson, a senior security analyst at Trend Micro. Despite Waledac being taken down or that a large chunk of the Zeus botnet was amputated and that spanish investigators along with FBI worked to [...]
Facebook Phising Email Example ( scam ) Phising Email Headers: Return-path: Envelope-to: XXXX@XX.COM Delivery-date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:04 +0200 Received: from cpc1-wiga11-2-0-cust5.pres.cable.virginmedia.com ([77.96.128.6]) by XXXX with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NrXYx-0008Lb-Hb for XXXX@XX.COM ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:04 +0200 Received: from 77.96.128.6 by mx0.name.com; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:37 [...]
