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Zero Day - 21 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, botnets, web applications
Zero Day - Nov 26, 2008
Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a …
Also tagged: governments, spam and phishing, united states of america
Zero Day - Nov 25, 2008
* Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka “mash-up”) possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its …
Also tagged: web 2 0, malware, browsers, java, facebook, passwords, anti virus, data theft, spam and phishing, punditocracy, viruses and worms
Zero Day - Nov 11, 2008
Originally spreading since July, the Koobface worm remains active according to a recent security alert issued by Websense : “The email reveals that infected user accounts are being used to post messages to Facebook …
Also tagged: web 2 0, malware, browsers, hackers, facebook, passwords, botnets, viruses and worms
Zero Day - Nov 1, 2008
The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we’ve already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the …
Also tagged: web 2 0, phishing, spam and phishing
Zero Day - Oct 29, 2008
The Facebook worm that has been squirming its way through the popular social network now has a new friend — Google Reader. According to researchers at Fortinet, the worm’s creators are wrapping Google’s RSS reader …
Also tagged: web 2 0, google, malware, browsers, facebook, anti virus, botnets, exploit code, web applications, spam and phishing, viruses and worms, spyware and adware, arbitrary code execution
Zero Day - Sep 17, 2008
With Facebook persistently under attacks from phishers and malware authors, looking for creative ways to efficiently exploit its users base, Facebook’s security team has silently introduced a new “security warning …
Also tagged: web 2 0, malware, hackers, facebook, passwords, phishing, botnets, exploit code, web applications, spam and phishing, complex attacks
Zero Day - Sep 8, 2008
If you have a social networking account, you are aware that spam has moved to that media. Each social network is scrambling to deploy technologies and policies to prevent spam from becoming as endemic their platforms …
Also tagged: web 2 0, facebook, spam and phishing
Zero Day - Sep 7, 2008
Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast …
Also tagged: web 2 0, botnets, estonia, governments, denial of service dos
Zero Day - Sep 6, 2008
Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast …
Also tagged: web 2 0, botnets, estonia, governments, denial of service dos