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Nestle Waters North America employee affected by Systematic Automation breach

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2008-03-04 10:08:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...distribute employee benefits statements. So far, this single breach has affected persons affiliated with five separate organizations Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above An Important Notification To Our...
 
Tags: systematic automation breach, systematic automation, sensitive personal information, personal information, breach, employees, power employees, information, nwna
 
 
 
 
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Malware activities rise in Asia

2008-03-27 15:46:50 by Chenxi Wang in Security & Risk Management
 
...distribute malware (the difference between malware distribution and hosting site is that the former typically contains a link or a small amount of code that points to a hosting site). The use of malware distribution and landing sites (as opposed to a straightforward malware hosting site) is a newer and more stealthy way to distribute malware,...
 
Tags: malware, malware distribution sites, malware distribution, distribute malware, highlight recent malware, internet threat report, internet threat, threat report, malware producers
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...distribute their payload. Very often the compromised sites are modified to include content from these servers. The color coding works as follows: Green means that we did not find anything unsual in that country, yellow means low activity, orange medium activity and red high activity Guidelines on safe browsing First and foremost, enable...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Help us fill in the gaps!

2007-11-29 14:28:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
Posted by Ian Fette We've been targeting malware for over a year and a half , and these efforts are paying off. We are now able to display warnings in search results when a site is known to be malicious, which can help you avoid drive-by downloads and other computer compromises. We are already distributing this data through the Safe Browsing...
 
Tags: malware, distribute malware, malware sites, safe, avoid drive-by downloads, internet safe, site, google products, display warnings
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...distribute perl without qualms (millions of users) though do note that these are the tests which will be applied at the deciding if you ought to be charged with an offence stage, not the points of law and interpretation that the court will use in deciding your guilt
 
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Anti-Malware Vendor's Site Serving Malware

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2008-02-12 20:31:18 by HASH0x8b333c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...distribute a variant of the Virut virus. AVsoft Technologies makes the SmartCOP antivirus package. One of the download pages of the site was boobytrapped with malicious code that used the infamous iFrame exploit to push copies of the Virut virus onto visiting unpatched (or poorly patched) Windows PCs The IFRAME at the site used to point to...
 
Tags: site, virut virus, virus, indian anti-virus site, malware, web site downloads, antivirus site, hackers, hackers seed malware
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft tries to create the perfect worm... for patch distribution

2008-02-18 08:31:01 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Microsoft researchers are working on the perfect worm--a critter that can distribute patches without the need for centralized servers while minimizing bandwidth
 
Tags: perfect worm, microsoft researchers, distribute patches, critter, bandwidth, servers
 
 
 
 
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HACKED BY THE RBN!

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2008-04-01 15:52:09 by HASH0x8b24a94 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...distribute your income by meeting our financial objectives Now that you're done transfering money, authenticate yourself at each every web service that you've ever been using. Trust is vital, and so that we've trusted you by providing you with our latest small sized executable files, it's your turn to trust us when asking you to do so Don't...
 
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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...distribute the sample " option, directly undermining the malware authors' logical option not to share their malware with anti virus vendors, but continue using the service. The multiple antivirus scanner as a web service is such a popular model, that there're several other such services available for free, with many other underground...
 
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