Archive for July, 2008

Spam, Hacks, Attacks and Vulnerable Macs

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Following on the heels of a plethora of other research reports that have arrived over the last week (I guess it takes about a month after the quarter ends for the numbers to get translated into words), Secure Computing released…

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Phishers Casting More Lures than Ever

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Phishing shows no signs of slowing down according to a new research report issued by brand monitoring specialists Cyveillance. According to the company’s Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report for the first six months…

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Using Wordpress? Check the text only version of Google’s cache for hidden spam links

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I’m up to my eyes programming another adwords API system at the moment so when I discovered that my Wordpress installation had been hacked, I wanted to strangle someone (ideally the person responsible) because I really didn’t…

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IBM and Websense Release Reports on Internet Safety-Status

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Websense and IBM released seucrity reports this week covering topics from spam to research on the impact of publicizing software vulnerabilities. In his Security Fix blog post, Brian Krebs continues his coverage on badware…

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Trojans Prick PCs As Top Malware Threat

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

An assessment of the leading computer threats through the first half of 2008 found malware riding along in Trojans posing the most problems for people.By the numbers observed by security vendor BitDefender, Trojans proved the…

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XForce report - spam (and Turkey)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Filed under: Games, E-mail, IBMIn our last installment the XForce was busy keeping you safe on the Internet. In this episode it’s XForce versus the evil spam. Spam, as we all know, is a pain in the rear. The XForce report…

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US continues to top malware league table

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

New statistical threat analysis has found the US looks set to maintain its dominant position as the most prolific source of spam and viruses. The US continues to top the global malware league table as the most prevalent source…

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Advisory: Spam attacks from faked Opera e-mail signatures

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Oslo, Norway – July 31, 2008 Opera Software has recently detected several spam attacks using faked e-mail signatures that appear to come from our company and our products. These e-mails attempt to use our name to gain the trust…

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Dr.Web AV-Desk deployment summary by Eltel

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

July 30, 2008 Once again Dr.Web AV-Desk has shown perfect results protecting subscribers against viruses and spam. The announcement has been made by Eltel (an ISP in St. Petersburg) that started a commercial phase of the…

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How to Update a WordPress Event Sidebar from iCal using Google Calendar (and other Google Fun!)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

This week I signed my personal site up for Google Apps. I’ve been getting a mountain of Spam since my email address hasn’t changed in years and my host (though I love them) will charge $1.99 per email address for Spam…

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