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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:58 AM

New SWF analysis tools - thanks to TeMerc for pointing this out

Yay, a new tool . Thank you TeMerc , I owe you a drink of your choice when I am next in town... " In light of a growing problem that has the potential to effectively place every internet user at risk, even when only visiting sites they would otherwise...
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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:15 AM

Breaking news: skyauction.com, unauthorised malicious advertisements, a fake letter of mandate.. oh my...

My regular readers may recall my recent article about emusic's claim that various advertising networks ( uniqueads.com , adtraff.com and forceup.com ) were fraudulently claiming to represent emusic. Said advertising networks were apparently selling...
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Friday, December 07, 2007 7:56 AM

Is this the beginning of the end for malicious SWF files?

Oh, I hope so. Mind you, it's going to take me quite a while to get my head around this 7 page document, and all of the extra pages referred to ... anybody want to give me a crash course, or explain to my readers what sort of difference this will...
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Friday, November 23, 2007 8:00 PM

Not even my immediate family is safe from malware....

There's my Dad, searching the net for an update to a particular specialist programme on his system; he finds what he wants, he downloads, he starts to install (we don't know if he closed his Web browser first - I'm bettting not), he's...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:20 AM

US-CERT alert - MAC OSX Leopard

" US-CERT is aware of reports of possible flaws in the Application-Based Firewall in Mac OS X Leopard. According to these reports, users may be misinformed of the status of their firewall rule set, thus placing users with listening network services...
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Friday, November 02, 2007 8:03 AM

More on the MAC malware

Word is starting to spread about the MAC targetting malware "MacCodec" aka OSX.RSPlug.A , but I admit to being concerned at some of the reactions that I am seeing. " A spokesperson for Symantec suggested that Intego "has a tendency...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:27 AM

MAC users are being targeted in a porn trojan social engineering attack

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/31/in_the_wild_osx_trojan/ " Miscreants have released a sophisticated Trojan into the wild that targets Mac users, according to Intego, a company that markets security software that runs on OS X. The malicious...
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Friday, August 17, 2007 9:41 AM

An interesting article by my friend Mauricio, and a timely warning

Operating System security is [only] as good as the admins http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/3578 "This last week, 5 of the 8 servers that are loco hosted but Canonical sponsored, had to be shut down due to reports that they were actively attacking...
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Monday, August 06, 2007 2:21 PM

Extremely disappointing - Trend Micro fails anti-malware test

"All three of its software products report false positives in VB100 testing. All three of the anti-malware products submitted by Trend Micro for Virus Bulletin's independent tests failed because they produced false positives. Of the 20 products...
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