Sunday, September 28th, 2008
As more people become accustomed to Web surfing and downloading software and multimedia, legitimate Web sites have become the favorite targets of hackers.
"The hacking of legitimate Web sites is the biggest threat today," said David Freer, Symantec's vice president for consumer business in Asia-Pacific and Japan.
Freer revealed that based on ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up sensitive information such as bank card numbers and PINs (personal identification numbers).
The Limbo malware integrates itself into a Web browser using a ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into a botnet that launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server in a demonstration.
"Social Network Web sites have the ideal properties to become attack platforms," according to a ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Twitter's time has finally come.The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals.Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers.The profile, with an alias that means "pretty rabbit" in ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Criticize the people behind the Asprox botnet, and they take it personal—so much so that they will bombard you with malware, according to a report by SecureWorks.
The botnet, now at least 50,000-strong with bots, is sending out phishing e-mails posing as messages from banks in the United States and United ...
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