Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Panda, an antivirus software company, has a new free Panda USB Vaccine available for download that can disable the Windows Autorun feature for an entire PC or a particular USB drive.
The Autorun feature in Windows can make it easier to install software - and it can also be exploited by ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Researchers at DroneBL have spotted signs of a stealthy router-based botnet worm targeting routers and DSL modems.
The worm, called “psyb0t,” has been circulating since at least January this year, infecting vulnerable embedded Linux devices such as the Netcomm NB5 ADSL modem (above) and launching denial-of-service attacks on some Web sites.
Some ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Computer security researchers have devised a new Twitter attack that they say could spread virally, much like a worm on the microblogging service.
The attack, posted online Thursday by researchers at Secure Science is an innocuous proof of concept that forces users to send out a predetermined twitter message, but it ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Win32/Koobface is a worm that may spread when a user logs into their profile account on the Internet social network sites MySpace, Facebook and others. The following system changes may indicate the presence of this malware:
Addition of the following files:
%windir%\bolivar19.exe
%windir%\bolivar31.exe
%windir%\bolivar30.exe
%windir%\ld01.exe
%windir%\che08.exe
%windir%\freddy35.exe
And/or the getting the following message box:
March's edition of the Malicious Software Removal ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Researchers at Trend Micro are reporting that a new variant of the Koobface worm is spreading on Facebook.
Koobface first appeared in 2008, with separate variants striking members of Facebook and MySpace.com. Now the Koobface worm is back again, with an eye toward stealing cookies for other social networking sites.
According to ...
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