28
Mar
“Evil Twin” wireless hotspots are copy-cats of the real hotspots, commonly found on airports, Starbucks, Mcdonald’s and other public places. They have SSID (Service Set ID) that is very much the same with the real one, sometimes the difference only is a letter. Trouble is, if you connect to these “evil twin” hotspots, you will […]
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27
Mar
It is getting creepier and creepier knowing that Botnets are on the rise. More and more PCs are being infected of Bots and trojans lurking in your PC without you knowing it. It is estimated that a quarter of all PCs currently connected to the Internet (around 150 million) could be infected by Trojans that […]
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25
Mar
Overview
Zlob is a trojan taking advantage of popularity of video download and video streaming. It poses as a fake video codec, but instead it loads more threat.
Zlob may arrive as a downloaded file from a malicious Web site. Upon execution, it creates the following registry entry to ensure its automatic execution at every system startup: […]
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25
Mar
Overview
TIBS C is a Trojan that comes to your PC through opening email messages with suspicious content, or pulling down a program from a chat room. It is using Outlook address book to propagate to your email contacts.
It will also try to download and execute other software like the TIBS dialer without user permission. […]
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24
Mar
Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors.
This is unbelievable! Symantec could have been hacked too, with possibly gathering inaccurate […]
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24
Mar
Google’s blogger.com is being hijacked to spread malware through fake blogs, a security vendor has warned.
It is being common that blogging is now used as a massive tool to propagate adware. Security in blogging software should be tightened more to prevent bots infiltrating the blogs. It’s horrible to see these ‘fake’ blogs, they are only […]
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