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  • Press Release: Attorney General McKenna’s new laws go into effect Thursday

    The full press release is below. The section most relevant to this blog is the new laws related to spyware. A change that I anticipate will have a great impact is that the new laws " Create liability for web hosting services who ignore violators’ use of their products " . I believe that this...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Thu, Jun 12 2008
    Filed under: Technology, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet

  • 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 fully trust, there is at least a new tool available...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Dec 7 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 unauthorised, malicious, advertisements touting...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Dec 7 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 make in the fight against malicious banner advertisements...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Dec 7 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 prompted to update *DirectX* and whammo, he's...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Nov 23 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 at an increased risk. " What *were* Apple...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Tue, Nov 6 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 to over-hype things " - excuse me?? What an...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Nov 2 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • 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 Trojan, dubbed OSX.RSPlug.A, is making the...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Thu, Nov 1 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits

  • Infected job search sites lead to identity theft for 1.6M

    Computer World is reporting that job search sites, including the highly trafficked Monster.com may have compromised visitors who click on malicious ads. Yesterday the report was 40K+ users, now it's 1.6 million. Technorati tags: security , ID theft , malware
    Posted to The WiFi Zone (Weblog) by bowman on Sun, Aug 19 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Security, Malware

  • 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 other machines. These servers were found to have...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Fri, Aug 17 2007
    Filed under: Technology, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
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