Saturday, March 8th, 2008
From the scam of a lifetime department: A spammer in our Broadband Tweaks forum is pushing a referral scam service called Juice Boost, which promises users 2Mbps speeds for free, anywhere there's a phone line, using "State-of-the-art data compression, byte stream and ultimate data burst technology". The service also promises ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
While many systems administrators are turning to firewalls and routers to control content on port 80, HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), as well as intrusion detection and prevention, attackers can use HTTP tunneling to bypass access control restrictions. Tunneling involves encapsulating traffic in HTTP headers; a tunneling program receives the HTTP ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Last week, InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist recommended that you stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your browser. He had good reason: The latest vulnerability reports point out some significant security holes in IE that aren?t going to be easily overcome.
According to Rist (who is sitting behind me while I write ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The latest mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it suspects that antivirus software is trying to detect it.
Atak was first discovered Monday. Although antivirus companies do not expect it to cause much damage, they say it will be a nuisance because it can generate a ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
More than 100 Web servers running Microsoft's Internet Information Services software are still infected with malicious code that was part of a widespread Internet attack, known as Scob, or Download.ject, that began two weeks ago, a security researcher says.
Dan Hubbard director of security and technology research at Websense Inc., a ...
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