Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Computer security firms are warning about an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored.The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed, leads people to a website selling fake security software.The code that inserts the link has been found in flash-based adverts seen on ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-SSVxsH7vw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-SSVxsH7vw
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding computer users to exercise diligence when checking their email in the wake of a new widespread wave of dangerous spam messages that claim to be breaking news alerts from MSNBC. Samples intercepted at SophosLabs, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
There are confirmed reports on a new version of the Gpcode ransomware being spread via a botnet.According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab (my employer), the Trojan encrypts files on an infected machine (AES-256) and leaves a text file named crypted.txt with a ransom note demanding $10 to decrypt the ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Google has released Keyczar, billed as a "Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography", under an Apache 2.0 open source licence. Keyczar has been developed by members of the Google security team and aims to make cryptography more accessible to application developers.Keyczar's design goals were to manage the complexity of cryptography ...
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