Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Security company Damballa has revealed that the source code for SpyEye, one of the most dangerous banking Trojans around, has been leaked online. Which is good for researchers, as they can better understand how it works. But it also means that a malware kit which used to cost more than ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Facebook today released the Guide to Facebook Security, a free handbook aiming to educate parents, teachers, and young adults on how to keep their Facebook accounts safe. You can download it now from the Facebook Safety Center.
The 20-page guide was written by former Symantec internet safety expert Linda McCarthy, Purdue ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way.Source:https://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/08/10/can-we-believe-our-eyes.aspx
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
LulzSec and other groups have been hacking an assortment of prominent organisations. For good or for bad, they have also been publishing their databases, which typically include emails and passwords. Given that most people re-use their passwords, this site allows the average person to check if their password(s) may have ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Google has released a list of security features being built into the upcoming Chrome 13 and includes Content Security Policy (CSP) and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) implementations, certificate pinning and self-XSS filter.
The Content Security Policy (CSP) is a specification developed by Mozilla which aimed at providing a solution for ...
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