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What Happens When You Mix A Real Infection With A Mass Mail Hoax?

2008-06-23 17:51:03 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
...mass mail hoaxes. However, I've seen a few mails snowballing (with ever increasing CC lists) regarding a page on Snopes that talks about a real infection - namely, the Storm Worm . I'm all for spreading the word on infections going around, but as the emails talk about a "new threat incoming" (specifically, the title of the forwarded mail is...
 
Tags: virus simply destroys, virus, real virus, norton anti-virus, postcard virus contribute, mail, postcard virus, destructive virus, hoax virus
 
 
 
 
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PR Storm - Mass iFRAME Injectable Attacks

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2008-03-17 17:54:21 by HASH0x8b5dc70 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...mass hack attack Hackers launch massive IFrame attack SEO poisoning attacks growing Attackers hijacking web site search engines to push malware ; German article Developers: Check Your %*^& Inputs Researcher: Beware of massive IFrame attack with many other such fake codecs about to get included in future campaigns, and emphasize on the...
 
Tags: massive iframe attack, iframe attack, attack, attack vector, attack tactics, domains, malicious domains, malicious, sites
 
 
 
 
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Mass SQL injection attack targets Chinese Web sites

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Sumner Lemon in Network World on Security
 
Web sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan
 
Tags: web sites, security company, taiwan, thousands, malware, hit, china
 
 
 
 
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3rd Annual IT Audit & Controls - Boston, Mass. (September 8-9, 2008)

2008-04-10 11:04:19 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
When:September 8-9, 2008 Where:Venue TBABoston, Mass. What:This conference will gather the corporate leaders in IT Audit to discuss best practices for establishing an effective annual plan, using reso
 
Tags: effective annual plan, audit, venue tbaboston, mass, september, discuss, leaders, reso, gather
 
 
 
 
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Mass SQL Injection attack is still out there

2008-06-20 13:22:34 by Slavik in Musings on Database Security
 
Well, it was an interesting day today for us in Sentrigo. One of our customers was being attacked by this mass SQL injection and since our software identified the attack he came to us to help him cope with the situation. As explained in other places, the attack takes advantage of vulnerable web sites and
 
Tags: attack, mass sql injection, attack takes advantage, vulnerable web sites, situation, cope, software, day, sentrigo
 
 
 
 
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Scrawlr: Are We Being Too Greedy?

2008-06-25 16:19:45 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...mass SQL Injection attacks of late Scrawlr quickly came under fire on the Web Security mailing list for having some pretty major limitations. Billy Hoffman et al have been quick to point out that the tool was designed to address a very specific subset of SQL Injection vulnerability the type affected by the mass attacks and is not designed to...
 
Tags: sql injection, sql injection scanners, sql injection vulnerabilities, blind, blind sql injection, scrawlr, tool, free tool, mass attacks
 
 
 
 
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Spending Money on the Wrong Security Threats

2008-02-19 07:18:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...mass destruction," Hyten said That's right -- weapons of mass destruction. This year, Putnam County spent most of its $58,000 homeland security grant to buy dozens of gas masks, boxes full of chemical suits, a plutonium-detecting gamma and neutron rae radiological monitor and, for good measure, this rural county about fifty miles west of...
 
Tags: putnam county, county, mass destruction, weapons, terrorism protection plan, rural county, emergency management director, homeland security grant, fifty miles west
 
 
 
 
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Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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2008-04-07 10:51:23 by HASH0x8ad7880 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...mass authorization requests to all usernames containing John. So basically, by implementing a simple timeout limit, mass authorization requests are successfully sent. The more average the username provided, the more contacts obtained who will get spammed with anything starting from phishing attempts and going to live exploit URLs...
 
Tags: tool, mass authorization requests, malware, malware authors, proprietary tool, urls, botnet, novice botnet masters, infect
 
 
 
 
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Russia Requires Wi-Fi Registration

2008-04-14 20:04:37 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service) have decided that every device with Wi-Fi inside requires registration for use by an individual user without a transferrable license, according to The Other Russia, which picked the story up from Russian-language site Fontanka.ru While Wi-Fi wasn't as broadly unlicensed in Russia as...
 
Tags: wi-fi, russia, home wi-fi network, russian mass media, cultural protection service, site fontanka, registration, transferrable license, vast amounts
 
 
 
 
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The United Nations Serving Malware

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2008-04-23 10:13:00 by HASH0x8b31c98 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind S