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...
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12-07-2007
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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...
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12-07-2007
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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...
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12-07-2007
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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...
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11-23-2007
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" 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...
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11-06-2007
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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...
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11-02-2007
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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...
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11-01-2007
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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...
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08-17-2007
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"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 submitted for testing, six generated false positives...
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