Storm botnet stages Fourth of July attacks

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

As predicted, hackers tried to trick users into downloading the Storm bot Trojan Friday by unleashing a flood of Fourth of July spam bearing links to malicious sites, several security companies reported.The spam campaign, anticipated earlier in the week by MX Logic Inc., used messages with subject headings ranging from ...

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How your cold explains network intrusion

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

With the cold an flu season most definitely upon us, there is much that the common cold can show us about network intrusion and what can happen once a single compromise has taken place.As you sniffle and blink your way through this article, think of how your computer responds to ...

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Trojan lurks, waiting to steal admin passwords

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.They have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers, including more than 14,000 within one unnamed global hotel chain, by waiting for system administrators to log onto infected PCs and ...

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Kaspersky adds anti-keylogger keyboard

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The new version of Kaspersky's security suite, Internet Security 2009, features a novel but simple defense against keylogging malware -- a virtual keyboard. Full details have yet to be confirmed, but it is understood that the program will let users bring up the keyboard from which to enter login details for ...

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Blizzard’s Two-Factor Authentication

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize. Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative. World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...

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