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  • Microsoft kills Waledac spam botnet

    The court has apparently ordered Verisign to remove the botnet's command-and-control domains from the Internet.This action has quickly and effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the '.com' or domain registry level, severing the connection…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Send • Operation • Judge • Federal • Domains • Command

  • Microsoft: Windows XP blue screen of death crash caused by malware

    If that still does not work, you may need to reload your computer.Because TDSS uses crafty techniques to hide itself on the operating system, many antivirus programs have a hard time detecting it, said Roel Schouwenberg, a Kaspersky antivirus…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Windows Xp • Robert Mcmillan • Remove • Investigating • Hard Drive • Boot

  • Microsoft tightens up Windows 7 activation

    Since then, Microsoft has stopped issuing product keys to license multiple copies and has improved the key-generation algorithm, Williams said.As a result, counterfeiters have moved on to other techniques, many of which involve tricking Windows 7…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Signatures • Procedures • Malicious Code • Editions • Downloaded • Actions

  • Scammers lurk behind Google Doodle

    For months now, they've followed Google's Trending Topics section and then used search engine optimisation techniques to push hacked web pages up to the top of Google's search results, security experts say.They do this by flooding hacked pages…
    16 December 2009
    Tags: Hackers • Pages • Hacked • Engine • Index • Trick

  • URLzone Trojan rewrites bank statements

    RSA Security researchers say the software uses several techniques to spot machines that are run by investigators and law enforcement. When URLzone identifies one of these, it sends it bogus information, according to Aviv Raff, RSA's FraudAction…
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Bank • Trojan • Researchers • Trojans • Trick • Researcher

  • Security firms battle world's biggest spam campaign

    Small businesses have been particularly hard-hit by this fraud, because banks have sometimes held them accountable for the losses.Testing a recent variant of Zeus on the VirusTotal website, Warner found that only five of the 41 anti-virus…
    28 September 2009
    Tags: Antivirus • Bank • Trojan • Campaign • Agency • Malicious

Latest Features

  • CAPTCHA security - more worthless by the day

    Paul Wood, senior analyst at MessageLabs, a UK-based e-mail security company, says, "MessageLabs have already begun to see examples of spammers exploiting other techniques once they have bypassed the CAPTCHA of Google and Hotmail - for example…
    23 July 2008
    Tags: Spammers • Ad • Techniques • Harder • Reputation • String

  • DDoS returns to plague websites

    Perhaps we are already observing the first of the next generation of attack techniques. The odd errors that users were encountering when trying to access the Amazon site during the outage seems to point to some sort of network traffic related…
    14 June 2008
    Tags: Achieve • Errors • Amazon • Forcing • Request • Noise

  • How to use Google and stay safe

    The attack marks a new level of sophistication, using multiple techniques to raise site visibility in search results and deliver malware to a mass audience.Sunbelt researcher Adam Thomas happened upon the attack when he ran a search of "netgear…
    29 January 2008
    Tags: Microsoft Windows • Guys • Techniques • Prevention • Holes • Labs

  • Keeping your network on its best behaviour

    Whether it's because of increased regulatory demands, the emergence of more-targeted attacks or the latest stealth techniques employed by malware authors, they have to identify and block traditional attacks and spot the malicious traffic and new…
    22 October 2007
    Tags: Firewalls • Events • Administrators • Spot • Agents • Hosts

  • Malware for sale

    The available exploit code is usually encrypted, uses a range of morphing techniques to evade detection by security software and can exploit various vulnerabilities, according to Ollmann. What's available there is malicious code that webmasters…
    10 April 2007
    Tags: Horse • Sale • Exploit • Engines • Payment • Encrypted

  • University IT pro shares his networking know-how

    What techniques do you use to instil confidence in board members? If one of my students uses my network to break the law or do malicious damage and I did not have a policy in place to identify how the network can be used, I will bear some of the…
    31 March 2006
    Tags: Compliance • Act • University • Budgets • Door • Campus
 

How-Tos

  • How to avoid joining a botnet

    But Team Cymru's Steve Santorelli presents a combination of techniques that can make their chances of infection much lower. As much as CSOs try to get folks to bone up on safe practices (both online and in the office), there are always going to be…
    20 November 2009
    Tags: House • Steve • Patching • Compromised • Banks • Attachment

  • Understanding malware attack techniques

    Understanding malware attack techniques Erik Larkin The top PC threats explained. If a program or operating system bug allows drive-by contamination, your PC can become infected with malware if you simply view a malicious website.
    08 September 2008
    Tags: Proof • Concept • Fix • Denial • Dangerous • Eyes

  • Case Study: BlueBag finds Bluetooth flaws

    The software, called Car Whisperer, took advantage of poor security programming techniques on the part of the car manufacturers. If you happened to fly through Milan's Malpensa Airport last March, your mobile phone may have been scanned by the…
    22 June 2006
    Tags: Bluetooth • Enabled • Spread • Attackers • Targeted • Car

  • Secure your wireless net with a shoestring

    Resist tempting techniques. MAC address filtering or RF engineering can reduce signal "bleed", but these techniques have minimal impact on security relative to the amount of work they require to implement.Pat Calhoun, AirespaceThere is no…
    22 July 2004
    Tags: Wireless Networks • Schemes • Wired • Affect • Intrusion • Detect

Reviews

  • Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus review

    It then launches a quick system scan that took under ten minutes on my system.Security Essentials uses a new feature called the Dynamic Signature Service, which employs a variety of techniques to check for malware even before that malware's…
    30 September 2009
    Tags: Signatures • Signature • Scans • Downloads • Behaviour • Actions

  • Microsoft Security Essentials review

    It then launches a quick system scan that took under ten minutes on my system.Security Essentials uses a new feature called the Dynamic Signature Service, which employs a variety of techniques to check for malware even before that malware's…
    25 June 2009
    Tags: Scans • Antivirus • Scan • Signatures • Downloads • Actions

  • Panda Internet Security 2009 review

    This community-based approach to security isn't new - Sunbelt's IHateSpam relies on its members to identify spam emails to quickly build a herd immunity' to threats.As well as this new layer of security, Panda Internet Security 2009 still has a…
    16 June 2009
    Tags: Scans • Spyware • Folders • Scanning • Filter • Outlook

  • Applicure dotDefender 3.0

    Yet these measures do little to guard web applications against sophisticated techniques such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, worms, and other assaults. That said, dotDefender does find malicious code transferred in secured SSL sessions and…
    25 October 2007
    Tags: Commerce • Firewalls • Automatic • Plug • Sessions • Scripting

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