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Google, Bing open new criminal opportunities by adding Twitter, Facebook feeds
December 10, 2009
The race between Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search to incorporate Facebook updates and Twitter microblog postings into search results — in near real-time — is likely to result in a bonanza for cybercriminals looking to take control of your PC.
Google this week announced that it, too, now has the capacity to inject up-to-the-minute Twitter feeds into search query results. Microsoft made a similar announcement …More
uTest discovers cross-site scripting vulnerability on major retailer’s site
December 4, 2009
U-Test has just completed a substantive, independent review of three major e-tailing sites — and found a gaping security hole in one of them.
U-Test retains a stable of 21,000 professional testers from 159 countries available to run any website through the paces. As part of its marketing efforts, U-Test has been running a once-a-quarter contest by which its testers can earn cash testing certain groupings of online services.
In this case, …More
Twilight ‘New Moon’ fans targeted for scareware and viruses
November 19, 2009
Twilight fans beware. A viral marketing campaign designed to exploit your anticipation over the New Moon movie coming out tomorrow may look like normal free media you’ve come to expect on the Internet.
A scareware purveyor has been spreading bad URLs, with the help of corrupted Google search results, having to do with the movie and its stars, according to PC Tools.
Fans are being directed to chats and blogposts that …More
Macs emerge as virus carriers into Windows networks
November 9, 2009
Are Macs that are allowed to tie into Windows-centric networks posing an emerging security threat?
Yes, contends Timothy Armstrong, Global Research and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky has become the lastest antivirus company to begin offering an antivirus protection suite for Apple computers.
Other security products already on the market include Mac versions of Norton Antivirus, Sophos Antivirus, PC Tools iAntivirus, Avast Antivirus as well as McAfee ViruScan, Intego VirusBarrier …More
Unstoppable new phishing attacks blanket Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail
October 28, 2009
How quaint seem the days when naïve hacker wannabes phished PayPal logons, then posted them on IRC chat channels, to try to make a few bucks — but mostly for bragging rights. That was circa 2002-2003.
Fast forward to the present. At this moment, Facebook is being blanketed by two high-volume email phishing campaigns.
These are serious, money-making drives that leverage PCs infected in previous attacks. While the perpetrators get …More
Finally — a solid measurement of the scale and scope of cyber attacks
September 16, 2009
Metrics precisely quantifying the scale and scope of cybercrime activity have historically been hard to pin down. But now comes a milestone survey, buttressed by another report, that defines the degree to which the Web is infested with malicious code.
The SANS Institute’s report on Top Cyber Risks is by far the most comprehensive accounting of ongoing cyber attacks ever made public. SANS is the well-respected Washington D.C.-based tech security …More
The Internet’s 40th anniversary timeline of milestones
September 2, 2009
The Associated Press and Symantec have each compiled timelines to mark the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Internet. The compilation below begins with LastWatchdog’s description of the current threat landscape. Combined and supplementing the timelines reveal how a military grade experiment, designed with an open architecture that preserves s anonymity, evolved into a global force, embraced with equal fervor by corporations, braggarts and criminals.
Summer of 2009: Bad URLs swamp the Internet. …More
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