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  1. Drexel students hijack online poll, get underwear

    Zero Day - 18 hours ago

    A few weeks ago I saw that students at my alma mater organized a small botnet to push Drexel to the front of the queue for Victoria’s Secret’s line of university branded underwear. It took a brief remark from a blog I

    Also tagged: web 2 0, web applications, social networking applications

  2. Microsoft’s Live Search (finally) adds malware warnings

    Zero Day - 18 hours ago

    Microsoft’s Live Search team has officially announced the integration of warnings for potentially malware infected sites within Live Search, following last week’s introduction of a malware warning service aimed at

    Also tagged: microsoft, malware, browsers, hackers, passwords, anti virus, spyware and adware, arbitrary code execution

  3. AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack

    Zero Day - Dec 3, 2008

    Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren’t able to do business through the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay was under a large scale

    Also tagged: malware, hackers, anti virus, pen testing, denial of service dos

  4. Microsoft’s Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

    Zero Day - Nov 27, 2008

    Playing catch-up with Google’s Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google’s warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo’s SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft’s Live Search has updated

    Also tagged: microsoft, malware, browsers, hackers, passwords, anti virus, exploit code, spyware and adware, arbitrary code execution

  5. New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw spotted in the wild

    Zero Day - Nov 27, 2008

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center and McAfee are warning on increased network scanning activity during the last couple of days courtesy of the very latest W32/Conficker.worm exploiting the already patched MS08-067

    Also tagged: microsoft, malware, hackers, passwords, anti virus, vulnerability research, exploit code, viruses and worms, pen testing, patch watch, arbitrary code execution

  6. Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kit

    Zero Day - Nov 26, 2008

    “Committing cybercrime around the Christmas tree” has always been a tradition for malicious attackers introducing new ways to scam the millions of online shoppers during the holidays. This Christmas isn’t going to be

    Also tagged: flash, adobe, malware, browsers, hackers, passwords, anti virus, arbitrary code execution

  7. Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP

    Zero Day - Nov 22, 2008

    Spammers are abusing Microsoft’s online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world’s 5th most spam-friendly ISP (Internet Service Provider). The latest

    Also tagged: microsoft, malware, browsers, passwords, phishing, spam and phishing, viruses and worms, spyware and adware

  8. Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0

    Zero Day - Nov 20, 2008

    Known as Kardphisher and “in the wild” since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has

    Also tagged: microsoft, privacy, malware, browsers, hackers, passwords, anti virus

  9. Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack

    Zero Day - Nov 19, 2008

    The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits

    Also tagged: malware, hackers, russia, pen testing, denial of service dos

  10. Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year

    security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 12, 2008

    Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year

    Also tagged: security, networking, network, malware, attacks, ddos, attack, nick heath silicon com, dns cache

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