‘Spyshop toys’ enable hidden audio and video recordings
July 16, 2009
Spyshop toys. That’s what J.D. LeaSure, a Virginia Beach-based counter surveillance specialist, calls the trove of eavesdropping and peeping-Tom digital gadgetry readily for sale online.
LeaSure is the go-to guy CEOs call in to do security sweeps when they suspect someone is listening in and/or viewing strategic discussions that are meant to be kept behind closed doors. He says business has been booming in the past year and half.
Some of …More
Perpetrators of Korean cyber attacks could be ‘stalking horse’ operatives
July 13, 2009
It may not have been North Korea, or its sympathizers, that executed those simplistic, yet highly effective distributed denial-of-services (dDos) attacks against dozens of U.S. and South Korean websites last week.
LastWatchdog has obtained a summary of analysis by Hanoi-based Bkis Security showing 166,908 botted PCs from 74 countries were used in the attacks. Commands were routed through eight control servers, tied into a master server located in the United Kingdom and running the Windows Server 2003 …More
Bots used in South Korean attacks begin self-destructing
July 10, 2009
The cyber attacks that continue to cut off access to dozens of government and commercial web sites in the U.S. and South Korea has taken a bizarre twist.
Some of the PCs used to carry out attacks on Thursday (July 9th)Â were freshly botted machines. A botmaster took control of them, Â probably by tricking the users into clicking on bad URLs sent via email spam, says Vincent …More
Gamers corrupt websites in zero-day attack, as Microsoft works on a patch
July 7, 2009
UPDATE 08-July-09, 08:30 a.m. PST: AVG senior researcher Roger Thompson, creator of AVG’s free LinkScanner Web links health-check tool, has just spotted evidence that the Gumblar gang has begun using this zero-day flaw to compromise PCs. That suggests the number of infected Web pages where you can get an infection has — or will –Â jump by magnitudes of order. The Gumblar boys have figured out that this …More
Tools to Twitter more safely
July 6, 2009
THE WATCHPOST: The tainting of Twitter
There are tools available that can help you lower your risk of clicking to a corrupted Web link (bad URL) while using Twitter and other popular social networks. They include:
SecureTwitter. This free tool from Israeli security vendor Finjan uses a browser plug-in that alerts users about the safety of URLs that turn up in Tweets and other social net messages.
Twitter attacks are latest refinement of Blackhat SEO trickery
July 6, 2009
No one in the tech security world should be surprised that criminal exploitation of Twitter has commenced in earnest, as I’ve written in this story on page 1B of the July 6th print editions of USA TODAY.
Coding and social engineering techniques that spammers and malware purveyors have been refining and perfecting in the email realm over the past several years couldn’t mesh more smoothly into the world of …More
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