Jun 30
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Just as thugs and drug dealers jealously guard their street corners with destructive turf wars, online spammers and other shadowy characters have been known to attack one another for control over virtual real estate. This week, security experts spotted a nasty tussle brewing between criminals who operate two of the largest networks of hijacked computers used to blast out spam. This latest cyber crime feud stars the folks behind the massively successful “Storm worm,” and the crooks responsible for unleashing the recent Mpack online attack tool. The Storm worm surfaced earlier this year, initially posing as video clips of a European windstorm that killed dozens of people. Computers infected with it were merged into a botnet whose sole purpose appears to be using them to relay junk e-mail. Storm also plants a “rootkit,” or set of files designed to hide the malicious software from security programs and prevent its […]
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Jun 29
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Pesky phishers impersonate keepers of Justice
The US Department of Justice has issued a warning to the public urging them not to respond to a bogus email that purports to be from the DoJ.…
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Jun 29
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Congress interests itself in cyber security
Long an afterthought for U.S. lawmakers, cybersecurity has received renewed attention in some parts of Congress.…
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Jun 29
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Is OpenBSD founder prophet or scaremonger?
A prominent software developer with a reputation for making waves in coding circles is doing it again - this time warning that Intel’s celebrated Core 2 Duo is vulnerable to security attacks that target known bugs in the processor.…
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Jun 28
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Trojan hides under patch update
Do not be tempted into opening an email with the subject line: “Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-0065″ because it is no such thing.…
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