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zdnet.com » Zero Day - 3 hours ago
No CAPTCHA can survive a human that’s receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of “data processing” while earning a mere $2 for …
Also tagged: microsoft, web 2 0, research, google, malware, phishing, web applications, complex attacks
zdnet.com » Zero Day - Aug 28, 2008
Do not trust that passcode lock on Apple’s iPhone. The feature, which lets users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder …
Also tagged: apple, browsers, wireless, passwords, data theft, vulnerability research, exploit code, responsible disclosure, pen testing, patch watch, arbitrary code execution, mobile in security, locally running web servers
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 28, 2008
The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra …
Also tagged: security, spam, financial services, banking, phishing, viruses and worms, ryan naraine, cyberthreats, spyware adware and malware, asprox, identity thief
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, viruses and worms, cyberthreats, dancho danchev
zdnet.com » Zero Day - Aug 26, 2008
The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake (malicious) Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built …
Also tagged: flash, adobe, malware, browsers, phishing, anti virus, botnets, data theft, vulnerability research, rootkits, spyware and adware, patch watch
zdnet.com » Zero Day - Aug 25, 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: web 2 0, malware, browsers, hackers, black hat, passwords, phishing, botnets, arbitrary code execution, social networking applications
zdnet.com » Zero Day - Aug 23, 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 …
Also tagged: malware, browsers, hackers, black hat, phishing, governments, united states of america
zdnet.com » Zero Day - Aug 21, 2008
A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any …
zdnet.com » Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 21, 2008
29% of Internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to Marshal. The most commonly purchased items include sexual enhancement pills, software, adult material and luxury items such as watches …
Also tagged: am, security, internet, spam, e mail, botnets, spammer, internet user
zdnet.com » Zero Day - Aug 20, 2008
Adobe’s product security incident response team (PSIRT) says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on …
Also tagged: flash, adobe, firefox, malware, browsers, java, phishing, anti virus, botnets, data theft, vulnerability research, exploit code, spyware and adware, arbitrary code execution