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zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - 13 hours ago
In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again …
Also tagged: security, spam, malware, attack, technique, spammer, spam and phishing, viruses and worms, cyberthreats, spyware adware and malware, google picasa
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Sep 3, 2008
Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google's Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully …
Also tagged: security, internet, dos, web browser, web browsers, vulnerability, google inc, google chrome
allthingsd.com » Voices - Sep 2, 2008
By Joel Hruska, Blogger, Ars Technica 2008 hasn’t been the best year for CAPTCHA-based anti-spam systems; Google’s Gmail CAPTCHA was broken in February, followed by that of Hotmail in April. Researchers have fought …
Also tagged: india, hotmail, google, voices, zdnet, gmail, bots, ars technica, captcha, joel hruska, tech economy
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 28, 2008
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to …
Also tagged: hacking, security, financial services, taiwan
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 27, 2008
With Twitter's continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn't mind the fact that nobody is following …
Also tagged: security, spam, strategy, phishing, anti spam, twitter, spammer, spam and phishing, viruses and worms, cyberthreats
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 26, 2008
Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : "W32.Gammima.AG worm …
Also tagged: security, hardware, software, malware, notebooks, virus, antivirus, space station, nasa, laptop computer, viruses and worms, notebooks and tablets, cyberthreats
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 26, 2008
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team …
Also tagged: hacking, security, internet, web, marketing, web technology, hacker, web site, channel management, web site development
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 21, 2008
Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately …
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 21, 2008
Someone's been chatting a lot during the weekend, but picking up FEMA's PBX network as their main carrier might not have been the smartest thing to do. Over 400 calls, lasting from three up to ten minutes were placed …
Also tagged: security, voip, networking, network, telecommunications, telephony, pbx, federal emergency management agency
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 20, 2008
Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest …
Also tagged: security, spam, e mail, authentication, spammer, online communications, yahoo inc, spam and phishing, fortune 500 company