Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Spammers have begun using come-ons such as stock-pushing images as e-mail stationery backgrounds to evade antispam technology and shovel their unwanted messages into your inbox.
One antispam vendor has spotted the technique in its early stages, but expects we'll see more of it. In a sample e-mail, the subject read 'GED' ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The arrest of Robert Soloway, the so-called "Spam King" who commanded a botnet of zombies that reportedly sent out billions of spam email messages every day, is a case study in just how difficult killing a botnet can be. His capture does not equate to the release of thousands of ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google Inc.'s Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.
On Thursday, Google hacker Robert Hansen posted proof of concept details showing how attackers could use Google Desktop to launch software ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Popular Firefox browser plug-ins are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher has said.
Many widely used Firefox extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and AOL do not use secure connections to update themselves, according to Christopher Soghoian, a security researcher who blogged about the issue.
Soghoian is best ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hundreds of users have clicked through to a Google AdWords advertisement offering to infect users with a virus, according to a blogger.
The experiment, run by Didier Stevens, a blogger who says he works for the consultancy group Contraste Europe, is the latest, if slightly puzzling development to reinforce the ...
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