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Koobface gang refresh botnet to beat takedown
Twitter scourge changes pants
Command and Control servers associated with the infamous Koobface worms have gone through a complete refresh over the last fortnight. Russian net security firm Kaspersky Lab reckons the change up might be aimed at making takedown efforts by cybercrime fighters more difficult.…
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Posted on 11 March 2010 | 4:32 pm
Bogus Playstation emulators pack Trojan payload
'Will be around for a long time'
Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.…
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Posted on 11 March 2010 | 10:49 am
Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…
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Posted on 10 March 2010 | 12:46 pm
It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…
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Posted on 9 March 2010 | 8:33 pm
Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic
Android phone comes riddled with bots
Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…
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Posted on 9 March 2010 | 10:56 am
Energizer Duo software suffers backdoor Trojan bother
Shh, I'm hunting wabbits
A Trojan backdoor found its way into Energizer Duo USB battery charger software downloads.…
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Posted on 8 March 2010 | 11:33 am
Patchy Windows patching leaves users insecure
Third-party patch treadmill running too fast, warns security firm
Windows users need to patch their systems an average of every five days to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities, according to a study this week.…
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Posted on 7 March 2010 | 8:02 am
Scareware sellers fool Google with file switch
Replacing pdfs with dodgy Flash files
Cybercrooks have developed a new technique for manipulating search engine results in order to promote the crud they sell, such as scareware packages.…
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Posted on 5 March 2010 | 4:25 pm
Patch Tuesday will leave F1 hole unpatched
Light spring sprinkle follows deluge
Microsoft is planning just two bulletins next week, covering vulnerabilities rated only as "important", as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.…
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Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:40 am
MS confirms 'F1 to pwn' IE bug
Looking for help can be dangerous
Microsoft has confirmed that an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability makes it potentially dangerous to press F1 if you are running earlier versions of Windows.…
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Posted on 3 March 2010 | 4:24 pm
How FBI, police busted massive botnet
12m zombie machines run by 3 admins
Analysis More details have emerged about a cybercrime investigation that led to the takedown of a botnet containing 12m zombie PCs and the arrest of three alleged kingpins who built and ran it.…
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Posted on 3 March 2010 | 3:56 pm
WoW authenticators bypassed by middlemen hackers
Your shiny weapons are no good here
Crooks have developed a man-in-the-middle-attack designed to circumvent authentication kit used by dedicated World of Warcraft gamers.…
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Posted on 2 March 2010 | 11:42 am
Qualys crawls into the malware scanning biz
Friendly robots provide drive-by download alerts
Qualys is inviting sys admins to sign up to a new free service, QualysGuard Malware Detection, which provides alerts about drive-by-download attacks and malicious scripts on monitored websites.…
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Posted on 2 March 2010 | 10:22 am
Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree
Dave's websites made to spew 'Vote Labour' spam
Conservative party websites have been attacked by mischievous hackers over the weekend, who defaced some of the sites and sent spam messages from others urging people to "vote Labour".…
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Posted on 1 March 2010 | 1:09 pm
Hordes of new threats ahead for mobile networks
Faked femtocells will eff up your ess
Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms.…
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Posted on 24 February 2010 | 1:59 pm
Another NHS hospital stricken with Conficker virus
Social healthcare disease
Analysis The infamous Conficker worm has infected yet another NHS facility.…
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Posted on 18 February 2010 | 3:05 pm
Almost 2,500 firms breached in ongoing hack attack
Zeus and Waledac unite in global botnet
Criminal hackers have penetrated the networks of almost 2,500 companies and government agencies in a coordinated campaign that began 18 months ago and continues to steal email passwords, login credentials, and other sensitive data to this day, a computer security company said.…
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Posted on 18 February 2010 | 7:01 am
Undead botnets blamed for big rise in email malware
Grave concern over reanimated cyber-corpses
Malicious spam volumes increased dramatically in the back half of 2009, reaching three billion messages per day, compared to 600 million messages per day in the first half of 2009. But this is still a tiny fraction of the estimated global spam volume, thought to be about 200 billion messages per day.…
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Posted on 17 February 2010 | 3:21 pm
Surprise Adobe update grapples with critical flaws
Reader, I pwned him
Adobe published an out-of-sequence update for its Reader and Acrobat software packages on Tuesday that tackles a brace of serious flaws.…
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Posted on 17 February 2010 | 9:10 am
Kaspersky defends false detection experiment
Claws in copy cat dust-up
Kaspersky Lab has defended its handling of a controversial experiment criticised by some as a marketing exercise of questionable technical value.…
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Posted on 10 February 2010 | 9:45 am
