Thursday, January 15th, 2009
TinyURL is a very handy service for shortening long URLs but it can also be used maliciously. Anytime somebody wants to hide where they are sending you they can easily generate a TinyURL and you will not know where you will end up. It could be a phishing site. It ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Here's a new way to get Microsoft to pay attention to you: Slip a brief message into the malicious Trojan horse program you just wrote.
That's what an unnamed Russian hacker did recently with a variation of Win32/Zlob, a Trojan program victims are being tricked into installing on their computers.
The message ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode.
The new feature lets users add “force-https to your Google Chrome shortcut” to only load Web sites with valid security certificates. “Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load,” the company explained.
The newest Chrome ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines.
Specs:
Free, independent service
Use of multiple antivirus engines
Real-time automatic updates of virus signatures
Detailed results from each antivirus engine
Real time global statistics
You can also email your file ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
LinkedIn is a popular social networking site where you can manage business contacts online. Since you can set up a profile with links to your own website, it seems to attract criminals’ attention as well. A Google search reveals that several hundred fake LinkedIn profiles from nude “Kirsten Dunst” to ...
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