Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Researchers at Websense have discovered a mass injection attack that is redirecting Web browsers to a malware-bearing site.
According to a weekend report by researchers at Websense, thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site.
"The active ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Symantec's MessageLabs says the assumption most web-based malware originates from recently created, temporary, trashy adult sites is becoming an old-fashioned notion. Modern hackers are focusing on well-established, trusted websites they can compromise-sites users trust every day of the week.
According to data collected last week, 84.6 percent of website domains blocked ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
On Monday, OpenDNS, the free DNS service, plans to start blocking the Conficker worm's attempts to connect to potential control servers. According to The Register, the new free service will also be able to alert administrators to the presence of the Conficker worm and assist them in locating infected machines.
Conficker ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
IE8 and Google Chrome both have a great feature that helps users detect phishing websites by highlighting the root domain when you browse to a page. You can get this functionality in Firefox with an add-on called Locationbar that is available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Here's a list of domains that are currently distributing the Downadup worm:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/downadup_domain_blocklist.txt
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