Monday, June 23rd, 2008
A new generation of malware alware that looks for passwords to online games has emerged – and its success rates are stunning. Last patch Tuesday, Microsoft added special detection functions for two contaminants called Taterf and Frethog to its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). The results sent back to Redmond ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines - detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated.
One password stealer, called Taterf, alone was detected on 700,000 computers in the first day after the update. That's ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Security researchers Friday warned of a new, massive spam campaign that tries to convince users to install the long-running Storm bot Trojan on their PCs.
The new spam blitz is difficult to characterize, said researchers from MX Logic Inc. and F-Secure, because of the nearly 40 different subject heads used by ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Everyone knows that there's no such thing as 100 percent security, but it's unlikely that most businesses realize how insecure they really are. New research on endpoint security shows just how vulnerable corporate networks are.
Eighty-one percent of corporate endpoints probed by IT security and control product vendor Sophos failed basic ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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