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Security news roundup: Hackers crack London Tube's Oyster Cards
This week's security events include a vulnerability in the multicast filter of an unpatched Solaris 10 system, Trojans targeting the ARDAgent flaw in Mac OS X, hacks of the London Tube's Oyster Card, and an IT manager who got 63 months for causing massive data loss at his former employer....
Tags: Card, Sun Solaris 10, Trojan Horse, Hacker, Londen Tube, Sun Solaris, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, UNIX, Security, Servers, Viruses And Worms, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-06-28
Attacks involving targeted Trojans going up
The number of attacks involving targeted Trojans are increasing, with up to 70 targeted Trojans a day recorded in the month of April this year. This represents an increase of 250% over the December 2007 level of just 28 per day. A targeted Trojan is sent...
Tags: Trojan Horse, Attack, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-05-19
Open source under attack?
A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits. If the site visitor has javascript enabled and is vulnerable to any of those exploits, then in no time at all their system will be compromised with a Trojan not...
Tags: Open Source, Antivirus, Belief, Vulnerability, Apache Software Foundation, Trojan Horse, ScanSafe, Attack, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Servers, Hardware, Justin Fielding
Blog posts 2008-01-19
Update on Trojans from multiple Web sites
Exploits that caused more than 10,000 Web sites to spew malware were orchestrated by a single gang. An excerpt from PC World: The latest problems show that the power of this particular hacking gang appears to be growing since it was identified early last year....
Tags: Web Server, Web, Search Engine, Trojan Horse, Malware, Web Site, Exploit, Web Servers, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Web Site Development, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-15
Sites spewing Trojans stump security researchers
The Register reports on a large scale outbreak of malicious attacks originating from several hundred sites. An excerpt from Register: Over the past four days, 15 per cent of the blocked malicious traffic has come from just a few hundred sites, which appear to be legitimate...
Tags: Trojan Horse, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Web Technology, Security, Viruses And Worms, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-12
Rootkit hides in boot sector, cloaks and reinstalls Trojan
Security firms warn of a rootkit that overwrites the master boot record of hard disks to hide from Windows and cloaks a Trojan that steals from bank accounts. An excerpt from PC World | Computer World: "A traditional rootkit installs as a driver, just as when...
Tags: Boot Sector, Trojan Horse, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-10
Trojan on the iPhone
An annoying little program showed that it was possible to develop Trojans targeting the iPhone. An excerpt from News.com: However, the Trojan also overwrites several legitimate applications, including Erica's Utilities, Launcher, Doom, and OpenSSH, meaning that if you uninstall the Trojan, you will need to reinstall...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Trojan Horse, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-09
Malware replaces Google ads with suspicious links
A Trojan detected by BitDefender replaces texts ads from Google's AdSense server, resulting in an obvious loss of revenue for Google but also posing threats to users from malicious links. An excerpt from PC World: When a person visits a Web site, the browser checks the...
Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Trojan Horse, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-20
Trojan attacks bank accounts, automates wire transfers
Anti-virus vendor SecureWorks has raised an alert on a variant of the Prg Trojan that pilfers commercial bank accounts by initiating wire transfers. An excerpt from SC Magazine: The latest attack is being orchestrated by a German group working in conjunction with UpLevel, a Russian malware-developing...
Tags: Bank, Awareness, Trojan Horse, Malware, Money, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Cyberthreats, Phishing, Security, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Spam And Phishing, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-18
Malware spreading through Messenger, searching for virtual instances
A Trojan spreading through MSN Messenger is posing as files from known or unknown contacts and also searches for virtual instances running on the PCs. An excerpt from ComputerWorld: The as-yet-unnamed Trojan horse began hitting systems about 7 a.m. EST on Sunday, according to Roei Lichtman,...
Tags: MSN Messenger, Trojan Horse, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-19
Seagate offers warning about infected hard drives shipping with Trojans
Seagate has issued a warning about Trojan Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah that has infected a number of shipped hard drives. An excerpt from ZDNet: Seagate said that anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives. ...
Tags: Hard Drive, Trojan Horse, Seagate Technology LLC, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-14
Seagate offers warning about infected hard drives shipping with Trojans
MAXTOR IS SEAGATE---HOW ABOUT THATHow does a virus get into a hard drive?The drive is shipped with nothing recorded on it.The first thing that you do is to record the OS or a partition to the drive.Wouldn't that erase the virus?Could there be a portion of the drive that is...
Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, BALTHOR, trojan horse, BIOS, hard drive, virus, Maxtor Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, firmware
Discussion threads 2007-11-14
Having trouble remove a Trojan Horse
I have a computer that has a trojan horse on it, named 'Trojan Horse'. I have symantec corporate edition, and I have found one trojan. It is currently residing in the pwdmon.dll file in windowssystem32, I have been to the symantec site and they told me to run...
Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, steak1986@..., trojan horse
Discussion threads 2007-11-09
Video Card Problem
I ahve a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a geforce go video card. Just randomly while in the middle of playing WoW, the screen freezes up and I have to do a force restart. When it started up the lettering was all chopped up and letters were missing, and...
Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Corporate communications, Video cards, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Nvidia ForceWare, GSutherland@..., trojan horse, video, safe mode, video card
Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Trojan targets Apple Macs
Internet security firm Intego reported a Trojan that lures Mac users by masquerading as a codec download. An excerpt from PC World: "This is definitely the first fake codec for the Mac," says Alex Eckelberry, CEO of antispyware company Sunbelt Software. "There...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Trojan Horse, Apple Inc., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-02
Trojans target Apple Macs
Malwares target AppleSo, is this the beginning of Apple's troubles with malware?So much for MAC users bragging about not getting virusesYou've been served! It was just a matter of time until MACs' were the targets of viruses and malware. I guess they can't laugh about Windows now...can they?Still...
Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, pr.arun@..., virus, malware, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., trojan horse
Discussion threads 2007-11-02
Security news roundup: November 1
Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which cover a vulnerability discovered in Novell's BorderManager 3.8 Client Trust, a memory corruption vulnerability in CUPS, and a new Mac Trojan that masquerades as a video codec for watching pornography. Novell patches BorderManager 3.8 Client Trust vulnerability...
Tags: Novell Inc., Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Codec, Trojan Horse, Authentication, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-11-01
The Storm worm is brewing
The Storm worm, which is harnessing zombie PCs and spewing spam across the Web, is estimated to have a computed strength varying from 15 to 50 million PCs (M&C). There's special reason to watch out for e-mail that arrives in your inbox: Storm worms have been reported...
Tags: PC, Processing Power, Trojan Horse, Zombie, Storm Worm, Spyware, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-10-31
Skype Trojan poses as the real thing to steal your password
Skype Trojan poses as the real McCoy to steal your passwordDo you use any third-party Skype plug-ins?
Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, paulmah@..., Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Trojan, trojan horse, password
Discussion threads 2007-10-19
Skype Trojan poses as the real McCoy to steal your password
A new password-stealing Trojan that targets Skype has been spotted in the wild. It poses as a security plug-in for the popular VoIP service but instead presents its own log-in screen to steal your user name and password. The Trojan calls itself "Skype-Defender," and other than...
Tags: Password, Trojan Horse, Malware, Skype Technologies S.A., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Cyberthreats, Security, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-10-19


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