Spyware Blockers

Big Safari fix

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:32:00 +0000

Apple yesterday released a huge Safari update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities – six for Windows versions and ten for Mac OS X and Windows. The update, Safari 4.0.5, makes fixes in Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Windows versions. This is probably pretty significant.

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Many Zeus botnet C&C servers taken down

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:59:00 +0000

Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 249 to 181 – including the six worse ones. Abuse.ch wrote: “As you can see in the chart above, on March 9th 2010, the number of active ZeuS C&C servers dropped from 249 to 181! The first thing I thought was: There has to be some problem with the ZeuS Tracker cron script. I checked the script – everything looked ok

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You don’t want to go looking for Corey Haim videos

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:04:00 +0000

Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all know that celebrity death equals Internet scams by the boatload. There are a number of spam runs currently circulating on video sharing sites such as Youtube, ready to catch out the curious and the unwary

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Rogue security products are the new black

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:32:00 +0000

Well, it looks like rogues are going to be in style this season. Our good friends at McAfee AV have predicted that the 400 percent increase in rogues (also called “scareware”) they saw in 2009 will continue this year. The loss to victims will be on the order of $300 million they also estimated

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Twitter starts Direct Message phishing filtering

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:27:00 +0000

Twust and Safetwy Del Harvey who leads Twitter’s Trust and Safety team blogged yesterday that the social networking/micro-blogging service has begun filtering all links in Twitter Direct Messages to stop phishing: “Since these attacks occur primarily on Direct Messages and email notifications about Direct Messages, this is where we have focused our initial efforts.

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New sniffer soon coming to a server near you

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:52:00 +0000

This little gem is probably one of those diagnostic tools that — like BackOrifice and Metasploit Framework — in the right hands is a good diagnostic tool and in the wrong hands is a bad diagnostic tool: http://www.serversniff.net/index.php “ServerSniff.net – Your free “Swiss Army Knife” for networking, serverchecks and routing with many many little toys and tools for administrators, webmasters, developers, powerusers und security-aware users. “Tools for webmasters and developers: “Benchmarks and informations about servers, routing, IP-Stacks, encryption, security, nameservers and domains

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Consoles for old games come with new malcode

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:40:00 +0000

Be on the lookout for websites offering up “free applications” which come with a nasty sting in the tail. Here’s a typical example: Appzkeygen(dot)com If you like videogame consoles, you may be a fan of emulators (programs that ape long dead consoles, allowing you to play old games on your PC – we’ll avoid the murky legal minefield that comes with this practice and instead focus on the malware). Below is a Playstation 2 emulator – no really, it is

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LifeLock will pay $12 million for false claims

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:02:00 +0000

LifeLock, Inc., the company that GUARANTEED it would prevent customers’ identities from being stolen (for $10 per month) has agreed to pay fines totaling $12 million because the claims it made to promote its protection services were false, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company will pay $11 million to the FTC and $1 million to the attorneys general of 35 states.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:49:00 +0000

MS10-016: Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975561) MS10-017: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (980150) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx Tom Kelchner

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Cute (and malicious)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:28:00 +0000

There’s an angelically tinged infection doing the rounds at the moment that has more than a whiff of sulphur about it. We can’t say for definite, but it looks like the point of this little angel is to turn your PC into a file storage area for an IRC channel since it dumps you into #music IRC channels and makes sure you can accept various media files. Our tale begins with an Email, claiming you have a “funny picture from Facebook friends” waiting for you at Oast(dot)com: This is what the end-user will download onto their system – an executable claiming to be a .gif: Should they run the file, two things will happen

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