Sunday, February 8th, 2009
On Monday, OpenDNS, the free DNS service, plans to start blocking the Conficker worm's attempts to connect to potential control servers. According to The Register, the new free service will also be able to alert administrators to the presence of the Conficker worm and assist them in locating infected machines.
Conficker ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that phishing scams are circulating via fraudulent U.S. Internal Revenue Service emails offering users stimulus package payments. These emails include text that attempts to convince users to follow a link to a website or to complete an attached document. The website and document ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
In a scary online-offline Internet scam hybrid cars in North Dakota have been tagged with fake parking citations that include a Web address hosting malicious software that drops a Trojan onto the computer.
The yellow tickets found on the cars in Grand Forks, North Dakota, read: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
As you may already be aware from the message on phpBB.com or the topic in the #phpBB channel on Freenode, we have recently been attacked via a vulnerability in an outdated PHPList installation. The initial attack was performed well before a new version of the software was released or a ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, PHP, Privacy, Security | 1 Comment
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
As of right now, it appears any google search you do will come up with all the same results as before. What has changed is that it appears to be reporting that every site might contain malware (i.e. it shows the "This site may harm your computer" warning with every ...
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