How about answering email messages when you are not online? Easy, right? But, if you are using a webmail account that used to be a problem; so was reading unopened messages or older messages in your inbox. Well, not anymore, Gmail Goes Offline! The AIRC annual threat report with the 2009 predictions could not have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘press’
What’s been on people’s minds lately?
As we have been predicting (and following during 2008), the criminal’s mind is very much attuned to public mind. The current issues that everyone (well, at least a lot of us) has been dealing with are the current economical situation, and what president Obama is going to do about it. Without fail, eCriminals have been [...]
Supreme court, freedom of speech and internet filtering
It was bound to happen. It didn’t work in Third World countries, attempts to do it in Western civilization failed one by one, and now it is proven again that you can’t really prohibit people by law from viewing certain content on the internet. What I’m talking about is this: The Supreme Court rejected child [...]
Conficker continues its rounds. Hits 9 million mark
It is funny how security works, isn’t it? When you think you got rid of the old-school (aka “stupid”) threats, reality hits you right back. Confiker/Downadup is a simple worm; it exploits a Microsoft Windows vulnerability, that can only be utilized over a local network as it uses the SMB protocol, and uses an initial [...]
Social networking strikes again
A lot of write-ups have been covering this, so here are a few from InformationWeek, Dancho, SCMagazine and McAfee. Besides saying the ever satisfying “told you so”, nothing much to add here. More bogus profiles enticing users to connect to them, look at the content, and catch the same old nastiness – only packaged in [...]
Hosting provider crackdown?
Recently, there has been a lot of focus from the security research community on a hosting provider named McColo corporation (out of San Jose, CA). Reports on spam, phishing and connections to Malweb distribution amongst other have been accumulating (including our own malicious server analysis which has been spotted to be administered from a McColo [...]
Obama Leads in US Presidential Election Poll – the eCrime Way
And the leader according to the highly non-scientific research done using Google for a specific attack vector is: Barack Obama. Obama related sites have managed to get infected in such a way that they attack their visitors in 364 separate instances, while McCain is right behind with 230 instances. As always, and as we have [...]
Snooping into Palin emails? Watch out for the criminals snooping on you!
Following the recent news on how an anonymous group has managed to take over Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account; we have noticed some interesting happenings. As wikileaks which was the original posting location of the images taken from Palin’s yahoo inbox was unavailable for some time, copies of the wikileaks post started to appear on [...]
The impact of just 5 random letters…
We have been watching in amazement the impact our latest Malicious Page of the Month had on the industry and media. From coverage at Fox Business News, and the Washington Post, all the way to the more “traditional” security outlets such as SecurityFocus, SC Magazine and bloggers such as Dancho Danchev. The scary thing is the [...]
New Orkut worm takes us back in the wayback machine
I just love it how old news are recycled with a bit of a flare when they become relevant again. The latest Orkut worm reports talk about the technique that the worm writer has used to distribute its code. Quoting from the original article above: “It then downloads and executes a heavily obfuscated JavaScript”… looking [...]