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• Koobface botnet enters the Xmas season

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 578
  The Koobface botnet enters the Xmas season with a new holiday-themed YouTube page. In between, the botnet masters are clearly experimenting with new features. Lets review some of them.
  2 days ago

• No Ifs or Bots: if only…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 569
  I came across a nice article today by Dennis Fisher on “ The Root of the Botnet Epidemic ”. Its the start of what looks like an interesting series on "the roots, growth and effects of the botnet epidemic" and the first aricle takes a historical overview of the situation around the turn of the century, looking at ...
  3 days ago

• Koobface Rears Up… Begins Google News Spamvertising

  
  Infosecurity.US — Authority: 135
  News ,  of the latest iteration of the Koobface Botnet, has hit the blogosphere. Utilizing client based attack vectors, this evil bit of badness can’t be much worse.. More information, direct from respected researcher Dancho Danchev and inclusive of apropos linkage, appears after the jump. From Dancho ...
  4 days ago

• Heathrow calling

  
  SecuriTeam Blogs — Authority: 410
  Here’s a weird spam I got last night: Hello The route taken through Customs is mainly determined by your point of departure and whether you are bringing into the country more duty payable goods than your free allowance. For those passengers who have flown in from outside the European Community (EC), their baggage ...
  1 week ago

• Surviving Cyber War: A Primer on DDoS

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest Jomini’s first maxim of the Art of War: To throw by strategic movements the mass of an army, successively, upon the decisive points of a theater of war, and also upon the communications of the enemy as much as possible without compromising one’s ...
  1 week ago

• Thousands of web sites compromised, redirect to scareware

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 578
  Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software, commonly refered to as scareware.
  2 weeks ago

• InfoBore 89

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 137
  Cyber Warfare – Asghar Javed, The Nation The Counter Intuitiveness of Cyber Security – JD, al Sahwa Cyber War Technology – Mobashir Ahmed, Techno Platforms The Real Hustle and the Psychology of Scam Victims – Frank Stajano, Light Blue Touchpaper NZ Interloper to Commercialise UK Internet ...
  2 weeks ago

• Suite of tools released to fight fraudsters

  
  BizReport — Authority: 579
  When it comes to fighting click fraud marketers all want answers. How do they fight? Where do they fight? How do they begin? A newly released suite of tools from Epic Advertisings Online Intelligence may be a help, by monitoring traffic, campaign performance and identifying potential problems.
  3 weeks ago

• WatchGuard Announces Top Threats to Education

  
  GuardSite.com - WatchGuard — Authority: 114
  Education-related Threats Expected to Rise - According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 25 percent of all cyber-security breaches involve schools, and although a majority of educators believe that their campus networks are more secure now than last year, WatchGuard predicts that significant breaches, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft bracing for malware attacks from embedded fonts

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 578
  Its only a matter of time before malicious hackers start exploiting a critical Windows vulnerability via booby-trapped Web pages or Office (Word or PowerPoint) documents.
  3 weeks ago

• Botnet’s New Component Imitates Human Facebook Users

  
  CyberInsecure.com — Authority: 130
  The Koobface botnet has pushed out a new component that automates the following routines:Registering a Facebook accountConfirming an email address in Gmail to activate the registered Facebook accountJoining random Facebook groupsAdding Facebook friendsPosting messages to Facebook friends’ wallsOverall, this new ...
  3 weeks ago

• The good guys win a small victory

  
  The PC Informant — Authority: 140
  The odds are on the side of the cybercriminals and their botnets but now and then there’s a small triumph for our side. A major botnet has been temporarily stymied; Ars Technica reports : Security researchers have taken down a major spam offender, though the dip in spam levels may be only temporary. Members of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mega-D spam botnet targeted by security firm (TechWorld)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 162
  FireEye contacted ISPs and registrars to help shut down botnet A computer security company known for battling botnets moved last week to try to shut down a persistent spam player. See more here: Mega-D spam botnet targeted by security firm (TechWorld)
  3 weeks ago

• New Click Forensics Platform Helps Comparison Shopping Engines Make the Most of the Internet Holiday Season

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 480
  Online Audience Verification Platform Improves Search Advertising Traffic Sent to Merchants AUSTIN, Texas – While millions of online shoppers will turn to comparison shopping engines before making a purchase this holiday season, many visitors to these sites will be botnets looking to steal money from merchants. To ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coordinated Effort Knocked Out Of Commission Mega-D/Ozdok Botnet

  
  CyberInsecure.com — Authority: 130
  A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world’s spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye.After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the FireEye employees last week launched a ...
  3 weeks ago

• FireEye Moves Quickly to Quash Mega-D Botnet (PC World via Yahoo! News)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 162
  A computer security company known for battling botnets moved last week to try to shut down a persistent spam player. See the rest here: FireEye Moves Quickly to Quash Mega-D Botnet (PC World via Yahoo! News)
  3 weeks ago

• Source code for ikee iPhone worm in the wild

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 578
  A 21 years old Australian has launched the first iPhone worm to automatically exploit jailbroken devices. With the source code now in the wild, how long before copycats start modifying and improving it?
  3 weeks ago

• Zombies & Child Pornography: Protect Your Computer, Protect Your Reputation

  
  Commtouch Caf — Authority: 110
  Unbeknownst to computer owners, malware infects millions of computers around the world. Many times, these malicious software programs create “zombies,” or “bots” where the computer is taken over by an outside party and used to send spam or perform other notorious processes. An army of zombies makes up a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mac OS X mega patch covers 58 security vulnerabilities

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 578
  The most serious of the flaws could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of an unpatched system.
  3 weeks ago

• Computer Security Software – Why Desktop Vulnerability Assessment is a Must-Have Weapon in the Coming War Against Botnets

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 150
  Cyber-criminals would have to find another job, could they not rely on two big “friends”. Human nature, with its traits of trusting, credulousness, negligence and curiosity is certainly the most powerful leverage in any hacker’s arsenal. Even in a world of perfect technology, crackers will use human weaknesses ...
  3 weeks ago

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