Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the official Web site of Peugeot in Romania has been compromised and is infecting the machines of site visitors with malicious code. Malicious code has been inserted onto the reported page of the site via iframes. These iframes redirect to the pages ...
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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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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I just saw that Wireshark has a version available for download to add it directly to your PortableApps Suite. This will allow you to carry a working copy of Wireshark around with you on a USB stick with all of your other portable applications.
First, grab the portable version of Wireshark ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
This is the scariest, stealthiest, and most dangerous rootkit I’ve seen come around since the legendary Blue Pill! No, I’m not just trying to sensationalize this or spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. This is serious and represents a massive new security threat for us all.
Security Researchers Joanna Rutkowska and Loic ...
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