Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A Trojan horse has been sent to e-mail addresses disguised as a message from Helsinki, Finland, antivirus software vendor F-Secure, the company said in a statement.
F-Secure said that an unknown attacker sent out thousands of infected e-mail messages crafted so that they appear to be from a nonexistent F-Secure employee, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
In the last newsletter, I suggested creating a limited user account on your computer and using that to surf the internet. As a limited user, it becomes very difficult for malware to attack the browser and install itself. As it turns out, there is an even simpler way to do ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hackers are likely to release more than 6000 keylogging programs this year--up 65 percent from the number in 2004--according to Reston, Virginia, security vendor iDefense. Such software illegally records every keystroke pressed on a victim's PC and then transmits the data to the hacker, making it an effective way to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
This is one of those ideas that make you want to slap your forehead and wonder why it never occurred to you before. I don't remember what prompted it, but I decided to do a little experiment with my virtual test PC. I created a low-level user account and then ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Warning: Long ramble ahead.
A lengthy discussion has popped up on the Bugtraq mailing list. It began with an observation from a user that Microsoft Antispyware missed software from Claria and a whole raft of cookies. It is not surprising that it did not detect the Claria software, since Microsoft has ...
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