There is word this Labor Day morning that several Facebook users have been infected by an insidious new application.
The Facebook Fan Check application claims to be able to show you how many friends you have and then allow you to post this within your page via RSS.
Once you allow the application, however, you are greeted [...]
Botnets are dangerous. Not only can botnet administrators steal your personal information, but often, on a whim, they can also simply kill your PC.
The controllers of the Zeus/Zbot botnet did just that, hitting the kill switch and BSODing about 100,000 infected PCs.
The Zeus/Zbot botnet first popped up back in March. It swipes your financial and [...]
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So how safe are you really when it comes to doing things online? As it turns out, not very.
Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara have published a paper outlining how they managed to hijack a botnet earlier this year for about 10 days.
In that time, the good guys were able to snag about [...]
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Macs are supposed to be nearly immune to attacks, right? That’s one of their big draws. Everyone knows that most malicious code is written for Windows-based machines. The key word there is ‘most’.
Word is getting out about what two Symantec employees are dubbing the first malware written to specifically target Macs.
The malware is a Trojan [...]
Canadian researchers have concluded that a gigantic spying operation has compromised computers and has swiped documents from hundreds of private and government locations worldwide, even those of the Dalai Lama.
In a report likely to be released at some time this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being run mainly by computers in China, [...]
Continue reading " GhostNet Spy System Hacks Computers in 103 Countries "
Microsoft has had enough. Last week, the Conflicker Virus (A.K.A. Conficker C worm) actually crippled the French Air Force.
Today, Microsoft announced that they are offering a $250,000 reward for the folks behind the Conflicker Virus.
The nasty little worm is said to have affected over 15,000,000 PC’s around the globe. The Conficker Virus opens infected computers [...]
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Kaspersky Lab, a huge antivirus software company (of all things), has been hacked according to the Register. That seems to be the conclusion based on evidence posted on a blog yesterday.
The hacker seemingly used a fairly simple SQL injection attack that gave access to a database containing “users, activation codes, lists of bugs, admins, shop, [...]
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Mmm….SPAM. There’s actually nothing yummy about it, in fact, it can be down-right annoying.
Now Google is offering us a nostalgic look back on 2008, the Year in Spam.
You see, in November of last year, a large source of the world’s spam, the McColo network, was taken down. Prior to this [...]
F-Secure’s chief research officer, Nikko Hypponen, told AP Digital in a phone interview that there’s currently an incredibly fast-spreading computer virus moving through the U.S., Europe and Asia. It has already infected as many as 9 million Windows-based computers. According to F-Secure, it is migrating “more rapidly through corporate networks than anything seen [...]
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