Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Remember the UPS spam runs that were popular last month (see previous blog posts here and here)? Spammers have chosen a different courier this time, but the message was basically the same.Posing as FedEx notifications, these email messages have the same format as their earlier UPS counterparts: tracking number (perhaps ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding computer users to exercise diligence when checking their email in the wake of a new widespread wave of dangerous spam messages that claim to be breaking news alerts from MSNBC. Samples intercepted at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Saturday demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox even if you are accessing your Gmail over a persistent, encrypted session (using https:// versus http://).
When you log in to Gmail, Google's servers will ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, so Dan Kaminsky said when speaking publicly about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.He said fixes for the flaw in the net's Domain Name System (DNS) had focused on web browsers but ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.Considering the silent nature of the attack and the sensitive nature ...
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